Mrs Beetons Vegetables Revisited
Boiled Artichokes
Artichokes
To each 2˝lt (4 pints) Water allow:
1 tbsp (heaped) Salt
Bicarbonate of Soda
Wash the artichokes well, changing the water several times.
Trim away the leaves from the bottom.
Cut off the stems and put them into boiling water, to which have been added salt and a small amount of bicarbonate of soda.
Keep the saucepan uncovered and allow to boil quickly until tender.
Test by using a fork, or by trying if the leaves can be easily removed.
Take them out, drain them for a minute or two.
Serve in a napkin, or with a little white sauce poured over.
A tureen of melted butter should accompany them.
This vegetable, unlike any other, is considered better for being gathered two or three days.
They must be well soaked and washed previous to dressing.
Time: 20 to 25 minutes, after the water boils..
Sufficient: a dish of 5 or 6 for 4 persons.
Seasonable from July to the beginning of September.
BOILED ARTICHOKES
1080. INGREDIENTS - To each 1/2 gallon of water, allow 1 heaped tablespoonful of salt, a piece of soda the size of a shilling; artichokes.
Mode - Wash the artichokes well in several waters; see that no insects remain about them, and trim away the leaves at the bottom. Cut off the stems and put them into boiling water, to which have been added salt and soda in the above proportion. Keep the saucepan uncovered, and let them boil quickly until tender; ascertain when they are done by thrusting a fork in them, or by trying if the leaves can be easily removed. Take them out, let them drain for a minute or two, and serve in a napkin, or with a little white sauce poured over. A tureen of melted butter should accompany them. This vegetable, unlike any other, is considered better for being gathered two or three days; but they must be well soaked and washed previous to dressing.
Time - 20 to 25 minutes, after the water boils.
Sufficient a dish of 5 or 6 for 4 persons.
Seasonable from July to the beginning of September.
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