Cauliflowers with Parmesan Cheese
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- 2-3 cauliflowers
- rather more than 1/2 pint of white sauce No. 378
- 2 tablespoonful grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 oz fresh butter
- 3 tablespoonful bread crumbs
Instructions
- Cleanse and boil the cauliflowers by recipe No. 1104, and drain them and dish them with the flowers standing upright.
- Have ready the above proportion of white sauce;
- pour sufficient of it over the cauliflowers just to cover the top;
- sprinkle over this some rasped Parmesan cheese and bread crumbs, and drop on these the butter, which should be melted, but not oiled.
- Brown with a salamander, or before the fire, and pour round, but not over, the flowers the remainder of the sauce, with which should be mixed a small quantity of grated Parmesan cheese.