Stewed Lettuces

Ingredients

• lettuces
• salt
• small slice butter
• pepper
• little flour
• small cup broth or gravy
• little pale vinegar or lemon-juice
• fried sippets

Instructions

1. Strip off the outer leaves from the lettuces and cut away the stalks.
2. Wash the lettuces with exceeding nicety and place them in water salted as for all green vegetables.
3. Simmer until quite tender, which will take from twenty to thirty minutes depending on their age.
4. Lift the lettuces out and press the water thoroughly from them.
5. Chop them a little and place in a clean saucepan.
6. Heat them with a seasoning of pepper and salt and a small slice of butter.
7. Dredge in a little flour and stir them well.
8. Add a small cup of broth or gravy.
9. Boil quickly until the mixture is tolerably dry.
10. Stir in a little pale vinegar or lemon-juice.
11. Serve as hot as possible with fried sippets around them.