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Cauliflowers with Parmesan Cheese

A historic Victorian British dish of cauliflowers, rather more than 1/2 pint of white sauce, parmesan cheese, fresh butter and bread crumbs. Adapted from Cauliflowers with Parmesan Cheese, from The Book of Household Management (1861).

Adapted from Cauliflowers with Parmesan Cheese, in The Book of Household Management (1861), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's The Victorian British Kitchen collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/victorian-britain/recipes/cauliflowers-with-parmesan-cheese.md.

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Cleanse and boil the cauliflowers by recipe No. 1104, and drain them

  2. Dish them with the flowers standing upright

  3. Have ready the white sauce

  4. Pour sufficient of it over the cauliflowers just to cover the top

  5. Sprinkle over this some rasped Parmesan cheese and bread crumbs

  6. Drop on these the melted butter

  7. Brown with a salamander, or before the fire

  8. Pour round, but not over, the flowers the remainder of the sauce

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Book of Household Management (1861; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)