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Tarragon Butter

A historical recipe from A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907).

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A historical recipe

A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #71395.

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

France

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. eight oz. of fresh tarragon
  2. one lb. of butter

Method

  1. Quickly scald and cool eight oz.
  2. of fresh tarragon, drain, press in a towel, pound in a mortar, and add to them one lb.
  3. of butter.
  4. Strain through tammy, and put aside in the cool if it is not to be used immediately.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mortar and pestle
  • Sieve
  • Colander
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #71395 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71395). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.