Name: Marrow on Toast
Ingredients: 1 marrow bone; Fresh buttered toast; Coarse sea salt; Red pepper

Marrow on Toast

Ingredients

1 marrow bone
Fresh buttered toast
Coarse sea salt
Red pepper

Directions

Prepare the marrow

Boil the marrow bone until cooked.
Remove the marrow and slice it thin.

Assemble and serve

Soften the buttered toast slightly with hot water.
Serve the sliced marrow on the toast.
Season with coarse sea salt and red pepper.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Marrow: Provides the rich, fatty spread that gives the dish its main flavour and texture.
Buttered toast: Gives a crisp-soft base that holds the marrow and adds fat and savoury flavour.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.