This section is from the book "The Post-Graduate Cookery Book", by Adolphe Meyer. Also available from Amazon: The Post-Graduate Cookery Book.
Remove the skin from the peppers, and prepare the following stuffing:
Chop fine 2 onions and I green pepper; fry in butter without browning, add I quart of boiled rice; season with salt and I teaspoonful of curry powder; moisten with I gill of broth, add 24 peeled shrimps cut in small pieces, and fill the peppers with this preparation. Finish as other stuffed peppers.
Proceed as indicated for Stuffed Green Peppers. These peppers are generally used canned; they are imported from Spain.
Heat some oil (or butter) in an omelet pan, throw in the peppers, cut in pieces about I inch square; season with salt. Whendry, add a little chopped shallots, toss for a few seconds, remove the fat, then add a little brown sauce and chopped parsley.
Procure some young and tender leeks, clean and soak them for a few hours in cold water; parboil and put them to braise as prescribed for Braised Celery.
The leeks may be served with gravy or they may be arranged with Parmesan cheese as follows :
Arrange the braised leeks on a dish, sprinkle over some grated Parmesan cheese, pour over some hazelnut butter, and bake in a brisk oven for a few minutes.
Boil 2 quarts of shelled and picked green peas in slightly salted boiling water. When done, drain, dish up and lay pats of butter here and there over the peas.
Note. - In England it is customary to cook a sprig of green mint with the peas; it gives them a most pleasant flavor, which the English people believe to be indispensable when eating peas.
Put 2 quarts of young shelled peas in a saucepan with 12 spring onions, I head of lettuce tied with a string and a small piece of butter; moisten with a glass of water; cover the pan and cook over a good fire. When done, take out the lettuce, untie it and cut it up; add it to the peas; season with salt and sugar, and finish with a piece of butter kneaded with a little flour.
Note. - To succeed in cooking peas in this way, it is essential to have them young and tender.
Cook the peas as indicated for French Style, adding 3 ounces of salt pork cut into small strips and parboiled for 5 minutes.
Petits Pois au Jambon - Green Peas with Ham. Cook as Peas, Peasant Style, using ham instead of salt pork.
Prepare as explained for Green Peas, French Fashion, leaving out the spring onions.
 
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