Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the salsify until tender.
Mash it like squash or turnip, adding a little salt and butter.
For soup, mash the boiled salsify fine to enhance flavor.
Add a few pieces of salt codfish for extra taste.
Alternatively, parboil, slice, and fry the salsify in batter or without.
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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