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Scallops In White Wine Sauce

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Beeton's household management, by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton (1907).

United Kingdom

Known as a British 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. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a pinch of salt

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. (Fr.— Petoncles au Vin Blanc.) Ingredients.— 18 scallops, milk, butter, i small onion, i clove.
  2. | bay white s.u.
  3. Method.
  4. Wash the scallops, or escallops, as these shell-fish r.-ill.-d l.solutely necessary, as th- Put the scallops in a stewpan.
  5. with sut'i milk .
  6. with a dove, also | a bay-leaf and a pinch of salt, and boil for 15 nu: •,iin, an«l fmi*h conkini;
  7. in white sauce, an < <c of utter or ixxMiful of cream being added at the tr ich of cayenne and a grate of nutmeg is reconr Time.- I an hour.
  8. Average Cost Sufficient for 8 or Seasonable from January ;

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Grater
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Credit

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 377, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

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.