This section is from the book "The Art Of Cookery Made Easy And Refined", by John Mollard. Also available from Amazon: The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined.
Cut off the leaves and stalk, boil it in salt and water till nearly done, and drain till dry. Have ready a dish with fried bread dipped in white of raw egg, and put round the rim. Set the flower in the center of the dish, and pour over it a sauce made with boiling-hot benshamelle, and, three minutes before it is to be put over the cauliflower, add grated parmezan cheese.
Boil the flower, and either serve it up whole or in pieces, placed round each other in a dish. The sauce over it to be boiling-hot and of a good thickness, made with strong cullis, a little vinegar, and fresh butter mixed together.
N. B. Broccoli may be done in the same manner
Boil the flower and pour over it the following sauce: Take a gill of consume and a table spoonful of vinegar, which put into a stewpan and set over a fire till hot, and five minutes before it is to be sent to table add a leason of two eggs and a gill of cream.
 
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