Martella Mushrooms

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 19 April 1935, Page 53

Martella Mushrooms

| P REPARE 12 large mushrooms, cutting the stalks very short, throw them into a basin of cold salted water, let soak a few minutes then remove and pat dry with a cloth. Trim them all one size, using trimmings for stuffing. Put half. the mushrooms tops down on a greased casserole or baking tin, then make the stuffing. Stuffing.-One tablespoon each of breadcrumbs and -chopped ham, oz. butter, 1 teaspoon chopped onion, musroom trimmings, | tablespoon stock, pep-. per and salt. Melt butter in a -pan, add ham and onion, cook a few minutes, then add other ingredients and cook a little longer. Heap a little stuffing on each mushroom, put lid on dish and bake 10 minutes in moderate oven, Cut rounds of stale bread: each a little longer than the mushroom, fry in butter till golden brown, arrange on hot dish, stand a mushroom "sandwich" on each and serve hot garnished with parsley.-Miss N. Harper, Oamaru.