Purée of Endive
3 large endives
1¹⁄₂ pints chicken stock
1 table-spoon white roux
¹⁄₂ pint cream or milk
2 ozs. butter
Discard all but the white hearts of the endives. Wash them thoroughly, and boil them in salt water for ten minutes. Drain them and put them to stew very gently for quarter of an hour with the butter, stirring continually. Then add half a pint of white chicken stock, and simmer for an hour. Pass through a tammy. Return to the fire and add a pint more stock. Let it boil up. Season. Add the white roux ([p. 12]), butter and the boiling cream. Colour with spinach colouring (see [p. 104]).