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CUCUMBERS STUFFED WITH MUSHROOMS
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CUCUMBERS STUFFED WITH MUSHROOMS

8 ingredients 2 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

656
Calories
22g
Protein
18g
Fat
99g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Mushrooms 1/2 cup sliced (35g) 15
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • four tablespoonfuls of melted butter
  • a pound of fresh mushrooms
  • two large
  • half lengthwise
  • four heaping tablespoonfuls of grated bread crumbs
  • one egg
  • salt
  • pepper

Directions

1

Peel two large, firm cucumbers, and cut in half lengthwise; take out the seeds. Take a quarter of a pound of fresh mushrooms, skin and stem them. Chop the mushroom flaps very fine, put them in a spider with four tablespoonfuls of melted butter and a very little water, cover and cook until tender. Remove from the fire, stir in four heaping tablespoonfuls of grated bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste, a few drops of onion juice, and the yolk of one egg. Stuff the cucumbers with this dressing, put the halves together, fasten with wooden toothpicks or tie with string. Place in a small dish that will fit in the steamer, cover closely, and steam until tender--about three-quarters of an hour--and serve with a brown sauce made as follows:

2

THE SAUCE.--Put on the skins and stems of the mushrooms in boiling water. Fry a few slices each of carrot, celery top, green pepper, onion and turnip in butter, strain the water from the mushroom stems into this and stew until all are tender, strain, add a generous tablespoonful of butter and enough flour to thicken the sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. Place the cucumbers in a shallow vegetable dish, remove the strings and pour the sauce around them.

By Henrietta Latham Dwight · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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