Charles Elmé Francatelli

Marrow Toast

1846

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

Charles Eime Francatelli gives this recipe and adds ‘Marrow toast used to be eaten every day at dinner by the Queen [Victoria] at the time when I had the honour of waiting on Her Majesty.’

Ingredients

  • A marrow bone
  • boiling water
  • salt
  • pepper
  • chopped parsley

Method

  1. Get the butcher to break the marrowbone.
  2. Cut the marrow into small pieces the size of a filbert.
  3. Just parboil them in boiling water with a little salt for one minute.
  4. Drain instantly upon a sieve, keep hot.
  5. Season with a little chopped parsley, pepper and salt, lemon juice, and a mere suspicion of finely chopped sh