Mrs Beetons Vegetables Revisited
Stewed Mushrooms
600ml (1 pint) Button Mushroom
85g (3oz) Butter
1 tsp Flour
1 tsp Grated Nutmeg
Lemon Juice
Cream or Milk
Salt and White Pepper, to taste
Cut off the ends of the stalks and pare the button mushrooms.
Put into a basin of water, with a little lemon juice.
When all are prepared, take them from the water with the hands, to avoid the sediment.
Put into a saucepan with the fresh butter, salt, white pepper and the juice of ½ lemon.
Cover the pan closely and let the mushrooms stew gently from 20 to 25 minutes.
Mix the butter and flour into a smooth paste.
Add to the mushrooms, gradually add enough cream, or cream and milk, to make the sauce of the desired consistency.
Add the grated nutmeg.
If the mushrooms are not perfectly tender, stew them for 5 minutes longer, remove any butter that may be floating on the top and serve.
Time: ½ hour.
Sufficient: for 5 or 6 persons.
Seasonable: Meadow mushrooms in September and October.
STEWED MUSHROOMS
1127. INGREDIENTS - 1 pint mushroom-buttons, 3 oz. of fresh butter, white pepper and salt to taste, lemon-juice, 1 teaspoonful of flour, cream or milk, 1 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg.
Mode - Cut off the ends of the stalks, and pare neatly a pint of mushroom-buttons; put them into a basin of water, with a little lemon-juice, as they are done. When all are prepared, take them from the water with the hands, to avoid the sediment, and put them into a stewpan with the fresh butter, white pepper, salt, and the juice of 1/2 lemon; cover the pan closely, and let the mushrooms stew gently from 20 to 25 minutes; then thicken the butter with the above proportion of flour, add gradually sufficient cream, or cream and milk, to make the sauce of a proper consistency, and put in the grated nutmeg. If the mushrooms are not perfectly tender, stew them for 5 minutes longer, remove every particle of butter which may be floating on the top, and serve.
Time - 1/2 hour.
Average cost, from 9d. to 2s. per pint.
Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons.
Seasonable - Meadow mushrooms in September and October.
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