Lentil Porridge
INGREDIENTS for 3 oz. of lentil sufficient for 2 persons. flour, 1 pint of water, salt, oz. of butter.
AVERAGE COST, 2d.
Put the flour and salt in a basin and mix with a little cold water; add the rest of the water boiling, then put on the fire and boil for 10 minutes. Just before serving, stir in the butter. Lentil flour makes a nice porridge mixed with an equal quantity of barley flour.
TIME.-10 minutes to boil the porridge.
SEASONABLE in winter. (Vegetarian Lentil Rissoles.
Recipe.) - INGREDIENTS for 6 rissoles.- lb. of lentils, either boiled or baked, oz. of butter, pepper, salt and nutmeg, egg and breadcrumbs, a little parsley. AVERAGE COST, 6d.
Cook the lentils soft enough to mash, drain them, mash them with the butter and add the seasoning. Roll the pastry very thin and stamp it in rounds, into each of which put some of the lentil mixture; then fold over, wet the edges and stick them together. Dip the rissoles in egg and bread-crumbs and fry in oil or butter.
TIME.-5 minutes to fry the rissoles.
SEASONABLE at any time.
LENTIL.