Sometimes cardoons are blanched by a more thorough earthing up, in the manner of celery, but in this case the operation must be carried on from the end of summer.
Cardoons are found to prosper on light deep soils.
In a retentive soil Cardoons should be grown on the flat, but the plant is a tolerably thirsty subject, and must have sufficient water.
When fully grown theCardoons are firmly secured to stakes by three small straw bands.
To insure their proper flavour, Cardoons must be large and fat.
Put the cardoons back in the stewpan, in which you have left the bacon; add two or three tablespoonfuls of broth, and two of Espagnole sauce; set on a slow fire, and simmer till the sauce is reduced to a proper thickness.
Have at the same time in a pan on the fire a piece of ox-marrow, and when melted mix it with the sauce at the moment you take the cardoons from the fire, and serve hot either with or without the bacon.
Serve them up with sippets of fried bread and stewed watercresses alternately round the rim of the dish, and the cardoons in the center.
In about three weeks after being tied up, the cardoons will be fit for use.
If this is neglected, the cardoons will be black, not white, as well as disagreeable.
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