This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Tie it in bundles, and put into boiling salted water with a little butter. Boil, with the lid off the saucepan, until the seakale is tender. Drain and serve on toast. White sauce should be poured over it. Seakale is sometimes boiled in milk, which should afterwards be used for the sauce.
Boil the seakale, cut it into pieces of a convenient size, dip into flour, then pass it through egg and breadcrumbs, and fry until of a golden brown.
Wash well four handfuls of sorrel, put it nearly dry into a middle-sized stewpan, with a little butter; let it melt, add a tablespoonful of flour, a teaspoonful of salt, half one of pepper, moisten to a thick puree, with milk, or broth, or cream; pass it through a sieve, put it back in a stewpan, warm again, add two whole eggs, two ounces of butter, and stir well, and serve where directed.
 
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