Name: To Prepare Frogs' Legs
Ingredients: hind legs of large frogs; coarse sea salt; cold water

To Prepare Frogs' Legs

Ingredients

hind legs of large frogs
coarse sea salt
cold water

Directions

Separate the bodies of the frogs in the middle and remove the skin from the legs.
Wash the legs well in cold water.
Place the legs in a pot of salted boiling water and boil for 5 minutes.
Transfer the legs to cold water to cool.
Fry, broil, or stew the blanched legs in a white sauce as desired.

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.