Name: Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster
Ingredients: Salsify; Oil for frying (if frying); Flour (if making fritters); Salt (to taste)

Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster

Ingredients

Salsify
Oil for frying (if frying)
Flour (if making fritters)
Salt (to taste)

Directions

Boil the salsify until tender.
Serve plain, or fry in oil until golden brown.
To make fritters, mix boiled salsify with flour and season with salt, then fry until crispy.

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

Salsify: Is the main vegetable, cooked to tenderness and then served plain or fried.
Flour: Binds the boiled salsify into fritters so they hold together while frying.

“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.