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Chestnut Sour

From Vegetarian cookery, 1891

Serves 2

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • Half a pound of chestnuts
  • one onion
  • a little celery
  • half a pint of milk
  • a little parsley

Method

  1. Boil the chestnuts just long enough for the rind and inner skin to be easily taken off, and when mashed, put the chestnuts into a pan with the onion and celery, cut in very small pieces, and a pint of water, and let all boil together until sufficiently done, then add the milk, the parsley, finely chopped, and season with pepper and salt.

Nutrition per serving

522Calories
10 gProtein
102 gCarbs
8 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chestnut Sour. Half a pound of chestnuts, one onion, a little celery, half a pint of milk, and a little parsley

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