Mrs Beetons Vegetables Revisited
Stewed Green Peas
1.1lt (2 pints) Peas
1 Lettuce
1 Onion
50g (2oz) Butter
1 Egg
½ tsp Caster Sugar
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Shell the peas and cut the onion and lettuce into slices.
Put into a saucepan, with the butter, salt and pepper, but no added water other than cling to the lettuce after washing.
Stew very gently for rather more than 1 hour.
Stir in a well beaten egg and about ½ tsp caster sugar, do not allow them to boil.
When the mixture has thickened, serve.
Time: 1¼ hour.
Sufficient: for 3 or 4 persons.
Seasonable from June to the end of August.
STEWED GREEN PEAS
1135. INGREDIENTS - 1 quart of peas, 1 Lettuce, 1 onion, 2 oz. of butter, pepper and salt to taste, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoonful of powdered sugar.
Mode - Shell the peas, and cut the onion and lettuce into slices; put these into a stewpan, with the butter, pepper, and salt, but with no more water than that which hangs round the lettuce from washing. Stew the whole very gently for rather more than 1 hour; then stir to it a well-beaten egg, and about 1/2 teaspoonful of powdered sugar. When the peas, &c., are nicely thickened, serve but, after the egg is added, do not allow them to boil.
Time - 1-1/4 hour.
Average cost, 6d. per peck.
Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons.
Seasonable from June to the end of August.
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