Name: The French Artichoke
Ingredients: artichokes; 1 tablespoon coarse sea salt; water

The French Artichoke

Ingredients

artichokes
1 tablespoon coarse sea salt
water

Directions

Select small, green artichokes with crisp leaves.
Trim the top of each artichoke and remove the stem.
If desired, remove the choke by cutting around its base and pulling it out.
Wash the artichokes and soak them in salted water for 30 minutes.

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 French Artichoke