Stewed Mushrooms

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Gather grown mushrooms, but only such as are young enough to have red gills.
  2. Cut off that part of the stem which grew in the earth, wash them carefully, and take the skin from the top.
  3. Put them into a stew pan with some salt, but no water, and stew them till tender.
  4. Thicken them with a spoonful of butter mixed with one of brown flour.
  5. Red wine may be added, but the flavour of the mushroom is too delicious to require aid from any thing.

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