To stew Cucumbers

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (7)

cucumbers ↝ Cucumber, raw [Other vegetables and combinations]
freſh butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
a large glaſs of red wine ↝ Wine, red [Wine]
the ſame of ſtrong gravy ↝ Gravy, beef [Dips, gravies, other sauces]
a blade or two of mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
flour and butter ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
flour and butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (8)

Peel off the out-rind, slice the cucumbers pretty thick.
Fry them in fresh butter, and lay them on a sieve to drain.
Put them into a tossing-pan, with a large glass of red wine, the same of strong gravy, a blade or two of mace.
Make it pretty thick with flour and butter.
When it boils put in your cucumbers.
Keep shaking them, and let them boil five minutes.
Be careful you do not break them.
Pour them into a dish, and serve them up.

Original Text

To stew CUCUMBERS.
PEEL off the out-rind, ſlice the cucumbers
pretty thick, fry them in freſh butter, and lay
them on a ſieve to drain, put them into a toſ-
ſing-pan, with a large glaſs of red wine, the ſame
of ſtrong gravy, a blade or two of mace, make
it pretty thick with flour and butter, and when
it boils put in your cucumbers, keep ſhaking
them, and let them boil five minutes, be care-
ful you do not break them; pour them into a
diſh, and ſerve them up.

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