Name: Stewed Celery
Ingredients: 3 or 4 heads of celery; good gravy

Stewed Celery

Ingredients

3 or 4 heads of celery
good gravy

Directions

Prepare

Wash and drain the celery.

Cook and serve

Boil the celery in water until tender.
Place the hot celery in a stewpan with the gravy.
Serve in a vegetable dish with the gravy.

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

Celery: Forms the main vegetable body of the dish, becoming tender when boiled.
Gravy: Adds moisture and savoury flavour as the celery finishes in the stewpan.

“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.