Enquire within upon everything by Robert Kemp Philp

1126. Stewed Water-Cress.

The following receipt will be found an agreeable and wholesome dish:--Lay the cress in strong salt and water, to clear it from insects. Pick and wash nicely, and stew it in water for about ten minutes; drain and chop, season with pepper and salt, add a little butter, and return it to the stewpan until well heated. Add a little vinegar previously to serving; put around it sippets of toast or fried bread. The above, made thin, as a substitute for parsley and butter, will be found an excellent sauce for a boiled fowl. There should be considerably more of the cress than of the parsley, as the flavour is much milder. [A GOOD SUGGESTION IS OFTEN INVALUABLE.]