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From 100s Vegetarian Recipes (1915).

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A historical recipe

100s Vegetarian Recipes, by Thomas Richard Allinson (1915).

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. 1 slice of dry toast
  2. 3/4 pint of water
  3. 1/2 gill of milk
  4. 1 small onion

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 1 small onion chopped fine, | 0z.
  2. of cheese shredded fine, 1 slice of dry toast, 3/4 pint of water, a little milk, pepper and salt to taste.
  3. Break up the toast, and set all the ingredients over the fire;
  4. cook till the onion is tender, add 1/2 gill of milk, and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
Source https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Credit

From 100s Vegetarian Recipes (1915), printed page 21, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/100s-vegetarian-recipes

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.