CELERY AU GRATIN
Instructions:
- 4 c. diced celery
- 2-1/2 Tb. butter
- 2-1/2 Tb. flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- Dash of pepper
- 1 c. milk
- 1 c. water in which celery was cooked
- 1 c. buttered crumbs
- 1/2 c. grated cheese
- Cook the celery in boiling salted water until tender and then drain.
- Prepare the cream sauce in the usual manner.
- Butter the crumbs by stirring them into 1 tablespoonful of melted butter.
- Put 1/4 cupful of the crumbs in the bottom of a baking dish and put one-half of the celery over them.
- Place another 1/4 cupful of the crumbs over the celery, and on top of this sprinkle 1/4 cupful of the grated cheese.
- Add the remainder of the celery and pour the sauce over this.
- Finally, add the other 1/4 cupful of cheese and the remainder of the crumbs. Place in a hot oven, and bake until well heated through and the crumbs are browned.
- Serve hot. Sufficient to Serve Six