STEWED LETTUCE
- 12 heads of lettuce
- 1 sliced onion
- 1 small bunch parsley
- Salt and pepper
- ½ pint (1 cup) water
- 2 ozs. (¼ cup) melted butter
Wash the lettuce, cutting off the stalks at the roots, and put it into an earthenware pan with the onion, parsley, water, salt, and pepper; cook slowly for two hours. By this time the water should have pretty well cooked away, leaving the lettuce fairly dry.
Remove from it the onion and parsley, add the melted butter, and serve hot.