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GREENS (a la Creme)

Wash and boil two young cabbages in the usual way; press them between two plates to drain the water from them. Roll a lump of butter the size of an egg in some flour; stir it over the fire with a wooden spoon till it is quite smooth, but not in the least coloured. Add, gradually, a quarter of a pint of cream, a teaspoonful of salt, half a tea-spoonful of pepper, and the eighth of a nutmeg grated. Simmer for ten minutes, and serve poured over the cabbages. Time, from fifteen to twenty minutes to boil the cabbages. Probable cost, 1s. 3d. Sufficient for five or six persons.