Fried Artichokes with Bacon and Cream

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a first course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook

By Anne Willan

Published 2012

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Ingredients

  • 1 lemon, halved
  • 4 large globe artichokes
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1

Method

To Trim the Artichokes

Prepare a saucepan of cold water made acid with the juice of the lemon. Break the stalk from the head of an artichoke. Pull back and snap off all the large bottom leaves from the head, leaving a cone of soft, small leaves in the center. Using a small knife, trim any remaining green parts where the leaves were attached. Trim the soft c