cold, shape into croquettes. Roll in coarse oatmeal that has been previously toasted a little in the oven or under the grill. Fry in a little fat, turning to colour the cakes evenly. Drain and serve hot with good gravy. Or bake in the oven.
PARSLEY CARROTS
11/2 lb. carrots.
Teacup of stock or water, or sufficient to cover.
Salt, pepper.
Small piece of dripping or margarine.
3 dessertspoons chopped parsley.
Scrub the carrots and cut them into slices, about 1/4 inch in thickness. Heat the fat in the pan and sauté the carrots, frying them without browning for about 10 minutes, shaking occasionally. Add I gill of stock or water, bringing the level to just cover.
Cook gently until the carrots are tender—about 25–35 minutes. Drain the carrots, reduce the liquid a little by boiling, and sprinkle the chopped parsley (or the chopped feathery carrot tops) over the dish. Pour the reduced seasoned stock over the vegetable and serve at once.
SAVOURY CARROT CASSEROLE
Young carrots and green peas—sufficient to fill a casserole, using twice as much carrots as peas.
2 small sprigs of mint.
2 tablespoons of milk.
Parsley sauce to cover.
A little minced onion, or rings of spring onion.
Salt, pepper.
Prepare enough carrots and green peas to fill the selected casserole, using twice as much carrot as peas.
Scrape and dice the carrots, place them in the casserole, just cover with salted water, bring them to the boil and simmer for five minutes. Then add the peas, the chopped mint, minced onion, a pinch of salt, and the milk. Cover with a close-fitting lid and cook gently in the oven until the carrots are perfectly tender.
Prepare a plain parsley sauce (see p. 115), using 1/2 pint of liquid from the casserole, 1 oz. flour and 1/2 oz. margarine or dripping, and season well. Add 2 dessertspoons of finely chopped parsley just before serving. Pour this over the vegetables, replace the lid, and serve very hot.
CARROT ROLL
2 large carrots.
Cold cooked mashed potato.
1 dessertspoon fine oatmeal.
1 teaspoon vegetable extract.
Grate the scrubbed carrots on a suet grater and cook for 10 minutes in a very little water. Season well and add 1 teaspoon of vegetable extract and 1 dessertspoon of toasted fine oatmeal.
Boil five minutes, stirring, to thicken, then set to cool. At this stage the mixture should be quite stiff.
Have ready some cold mashed potatoes, dust the pastry board and pin with flour, and roll out to an oblong shape. Place the carrot filling in the centre, then fold over and shape to a roll. Dot with a few shavings of fat and bake till nicely browned in a moderately hot oven. Serve with well-seasoned brown gravy.
CARROTS AND SPROUTS
Choose equal quantities of sprouts and carrots by weight, prepare them in the usual way, slicing both to convenient size.
Steam together until tender (about 15 minutes), sprinkling them with a little salt in the steamer.
Alternatively—cook in a very little water in a saucepan, starting the carrots a little ahead of the green sprouts to enable them to finish cooking together. Use the liquor, with added vegetable extract, as sauce. Dress in a little dripping or cooking fat just before serving, adding a small shake of pepper.
CARROT BEEHIVE
About 11/2 lb. carrots.
3/4 lb. potato suet crust.
Salt and pepper.
Gravy powder.
Wash and scrape the carrots. Make 1 lb. potato suet crust (see p. 59). Line a greased pudding bowl with it, then put in a layer of grated raw carrot (about 1 inch deep). Sprinkle with salt, pepper and gravy powder, and cover with a very thin circle of the crust, cut to fit. Repeat the layers of carrot and crust until the basin is full, ending with crust. Cover with margarine paper and steam for 21/2–3 hours. Serve with brown gravy.
CURRIED CARROTS AND CELERY
2 lb. carrots.
1/4 head celery.
1 oz. dripping.
3/4 pint vegetable boilings or water.
1/2 oz. flour.
Dash of vinegar.
1 tablespoon home made jam.
2 teaspoons curry powder.
1 apple, peeled and sliced.
A little minced onion, or spring onion.
Scrape and slice the carrots. Prepare the celery and chop fairly fine. Melt the dripping in the pan, put in the apple, minced onion and celery, and sauté for a few minutes without browning. Add the curry powder and flour and fry lightly, stirring well.
Next add the stock or water, vinegar, etc., and stir well until thickened, before adding the carrots and jam. Cover, and simmer for 20 minutes to half an hour.
Serve with a border of creamily mashed potatoes.
CARROT SPREAD (see PACKED MEALS, p. 121).
CARROT PUDDING (see Peace and War Pudding, p. 59, POTATOES).
CELERY
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