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Brier Shoots or Hop Shoots with White Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Brier Shoots or Hop Shoots with White Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove all hard and woody parts from the brier or hop shoots.

  2. Cook the shoots in boiling water with a little salt for 8 to 10 minutes.

  3. Drain the shoots well.

  4. Serve with white sauce in a sauceboat.

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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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Hops + saucetop 95% of all pairs
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