Name: Vegetable Marrow in Gravy
Ingredients: 1 large marrow; thick brown gravy

Vegetable Marrow in Gravy

Ingredients

1 large marrow
thick brown gravy

Directions

Prepare

Boil the marrow until three-quarters cooked.
Cut the marrow into squares.

Heat and serve

Place the squares in a saucepan and pour enough thick brown gravy to cover them.
Heat gently until warmed through.
Serve in a vegetable dish with gravy poured around.

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: Forms the tender, mild-flavoured body of the dish once cooked through.
Thick brown gravy: Adds moisture and savoury flavour, keeping the marrow from drying out while it warms.

“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.