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Italian Mustard

From Cather Historic Cookbook - Gulf City Cook Book 4913010.

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A historical recipe

Cather Historic Cookbook - Gulf City Cook Book 4913010, by Auburn University Libraries.

Italy

Known as an Italian 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 5 ingredients

  1. one-half tumbler of water
  2. one teaspoonful each of brown sugar
  3. one-half teaspoonful of salt
  4. two tablespoonfuls of mustard
  5. One large onion

Cook safely

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

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. One large onion, one-half tumbler of water, one teaspoonful each of brown sugar and black pepper, one-half teaspoonful of salt, and two tablespoonfuls of mustard.
  2. Boil the onion, put the other ingredients in a cup, and add enough of the water in which the onion has been boiled to mix them ;
  3. then add a little vinegar and a small glass of claret.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Credit

From Cather Historic Cookbook - Gulf City Cook Book 4913010, printed page 191, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/gulf-city-cook-book-4913010

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.