BROILED MUSHROOMS

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 10 min Total: 10 min
Yield
3.0 – 4.0 mushrooms per person
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (5)
Instructions (7)
  1. Cleanse the mushrooms by wiping them with a piece of flannel and a little salt.
  2. Cut off a portion of the stalk, and peel the tops.
  3. Broil them over a clear fire, turning them once, and arrange them on a very hot dish.
  4. Put a small piece of butter on each mushroom.
  5. Season with pepper and salt.
  6. Squeeze over them a few drops of lemon-juice.
  7. Place the dish before the fire, and when the butter is melted, serve very hot and quickly.
Original Text
BROILED MUSHROOMS. (A Breakfast, Luncheon, or Supper Dish.) 1125. INGREDIENTS.—Mushroom-flaps, pepper and salt to taste, butter, lemon-juice. [Illustration: BROILED MUSHROOMS.] Mode.—Cleanse the mushrooms by wiping them with a piece of flannel and a little salt; cut off a portion of the stalk, and peel the tops: broil them over a clear fire, turning them once, and arrange them on a very hot dish. Put a small piece of butter on each mushroom, season with pepper and salt, and squeeze over them a few drops of lemon-juice. Place the dish before the fire, and when the butter is melted, serve very hot and quickly. Moderate-sized flaps are better suited to this mode of cooking than the buttons: the latter are better in stews. Time.—10 minutes for medium-sized mushrooms. Average cost, 1d. each for large mushrooms. Sufficient.—Allow 3 or 4 mushrooms to each person. Seasonable.—Meadow mushrooms in September and October; cultivated mushrooms may be had at any time. [Illustration: MUSHROOMS.] VARIETIES OF THE MUSHROOM.—The common mushroom found in our pastures is the Agaricus campestris of science, and another edible British species is A. Georgii; but A. primulus is affirmed to be the most delicious mushroom. The morel is Morchella esculenta, and Tuber cibarium is the common truffle. There is in New Zealand a long fungus, which grows from the head of a caterpillar, and which forms a horn, as it were, and is called Sphaeria Robertsii.
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