Name: Fried Parsley
Ingredients: full stalks of parsley; salted cold water; smoking-hot fat

Fried Parsley

Ingredients

full stalks of parsley
salted cold water
smoking-hot fat

Directions

Select full stalks of parsley and remove any imperfect or decayed leaves.
Wash the parsley well in plenty of salted cold water.
Spread the parsley on a clean towel to dry completely.
Gather the stalks in your right hand and quickly dip the leaves into the smoking-hot fat for a moment to crisp them.

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.