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German Lentil Curry

A historical recipe from The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed., by Florence Daniel (1915).

A historical recipe

The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed., by Florence Daniel (1915). Project Gutenberg eBook #10632.

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

Source and licence

From The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed., by Florence Daniel (1915). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #10632 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10632). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Germany. Associated with Germany by a demonym leading its title: German (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Use the ingredients given, and proceed exactly the same as for egg curry.
  2. But in place of eggs, take 1 breakfastcup of cold cooked German lentils (see recipe for cooking lentils).
  3. Use also 2 teacups water in place of the 1, and only 3/4 oz.
  4. butter or nutter.