PURÉE OF CHESTNUTS - Recipe of the day

Make a little slit in each chestnut, boil them till tender, then put them in another pan with cold water in it and replace them on the fire. Peel them one by one as you take them out, and rub them through a sieve, pounding them first to make it easier, add salt, a good lump of butter and a little milk to make a nice purée. This is very good to surround grilled chicken or turkey legs, or for a salmi of duck.

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Roasted, unpeeled chestnuts; nuts grown in California (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Chestnut Pie - Recipe Of The Day

Roasted chestnuts being sold by street vendor (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

2 lbs. of chestnuts, 1 head of celery, 1 large Spanish onion, 1/2 lb.
of Allinson fine wheatmeal, 4 oz. of butter, pepper and salt. Boil the
chestnuts until partly tender, and remove the skins; cut the celery
into pieces, removing the outer very hard pieces only, slice the onion
and stew until tender in 1 pint of water; mix all the ingredients
together, adding 1 oz. of the butter and seasoning to taste; make some
pastry of the meal, 3 oz. of butter, and a little cold water; turn the
vegetables into a pie-dish, cover the dish with the pastry, and bake
the pie for 1 hour; serve with brown gravy.

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