Nottingham Blewits


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		This recipe makes the most of the intense, distinctive flavour of the blewits in a very, very English way. Essentially, this recipe is very like the way that tripe is traditionally cooked in the East Midlands, but I find this version with blewits to be far more acceptable to my palatte!



		Ingredients 500g (1 pound) of field or wood blewits up to 1 600ml (just over a pint) of milk 1-2 tablespoons of flour 1 large (or 2-3 small) onion 1 large knob of butter As many mashed potatoes as you want to eat Salt and Pepper to taste (1) Remove the stems from the mushroom and chop them with the onion. Fry this mixture in the butter until it softens. (2) Add the rest of the mushrooms, in big but mouthsized lumps, and cover with milk. Simmer on a low heat for anything up to 45 minutes. Top up with more milk when neccesary. (3) Peel and boil the potatoes in this time. (4) After 45 minutes, remove the mushrooms from the heat and pour off the juice. Melt enough butter to mix the flour with to make a roux, and use this to thicken the sauce as you would with any white sauce. Pour this back onto the mushrooms, season, and simmer for 5-10 minutes. (5) Serve in a well in the middle of a plate of mashed potatoes.