Stewed Celery

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (8)
celery
flavoring
thickening
enrichment
Instructions (11)
  1. Take off the outside and the green ends of your heads of celery.
  2. Boil them in water till they are very tender.
  3. Put in a slice of lemon and a little beaten mace.
  4. Thicken it with a good lump of butter and flour.
  5. Boil it a little.
  6. Beat the yolks of two eggs.
  7. Grate in half a nutmeg.
  8. Mix the egg yolks and nutmeg with a tea-cupful of good cream.
  9. Put the cream mixture to your gravy.
  10. Shake it over the fire till it be of a fine thickness, but do not let it boil.
  11. Serve it up hot.
Original Text
To stew CELERY. TAKE off the outside and the green ends of your heads of celery, boil them in water till they are very tender, put in a slice of lemon, a little beaten mace, thicken it with a good lump of butter and flour, boil it a little, beat the yolks of two eggs, grate in half a nutmeg, mix them with a tea-cupful of good cream, put it to your gravy, shake it over the fire till it be of a fine thickness, but do not let it boil; serve it up hot.
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