Sliced Carrots

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Total: 45 min
Yield
1.0 dish
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (5)
Instructions (4)
  1. Scrape and wash the carrots, cut them into slices of an equal size, and boil them in salt and water, until half done.
  2. Drain them well, put them into a stewpan with the sugar and stock, and let them boil over a brisk fire.
  3. When reduced to a glaze, add the fresh butter and a seasoning of salt; shake the stewpan about well, and when the butter is well mixed with the carrots, serve.
  4. There should be no sauce in the dish when it comes to table, but it should all adhere to the carrots.
Original Text
SLICED CARROTS. (Entremets, or to be served with the Second Course, as a Side-dish.) 1103. INGREDIENTS.—5 or 6 large carrots, a large lump of sugar, 1 pint of weak stock, 3 oz. of fresh butter, salt to taste. Mode.—Scrape and wash the carrots, cut them into slices of an equal size, and boil them in salt and water, until half done; drain them well, put them into a stewpan with the sugar and stock, and let them boil over a brisk fire. When reduced to a glaze, add the fresh butter and a seasoning of salt; shake the stewpan about well, and when the butter is well mixed with the carrots, serve. There should be no sauce in the dish when it comes to table, but it should all adhere to the carrots. Time.—Altogether, 3/4 hour. Average cost, 6d. to 8d. per bunch of 18. Sufficient for 1 dish. Seasonable.—Young carrots from April to June, old ones at any time. THE SEED OF THE CARROT.—In order to save the seed of carrots, the plan is, to select annually the most perfect and best-shaped roots in the taking-up season, and either preserve them in sand in a cellar till spring, or plant them immediately in an open airy part of the garden, protecting them with litter during severe frost, or earthing them over, and uncovering them in March following. The seed is in no danger from being injured by any other plant. In August it is fit to gather, and is best preserved on the stalks till wanted.
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