Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken's stuffed celeriac (1914): 6 celeriac roots are boiled half-tender in meat stock, hollowed out and filled with 250 g of seasoned ground meat, tied in a cloth and finished in the stock. Served on finely shredded salad with a light sauce of butter, flour, stock, egg yolk, cream and lemon juice.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 193 (falt i det fri)
The dish belongs to the meat chapter of "Stor kokebok" (1914), where Erken shows how ground meat can be used to fill vegetables. Celeriac boiled in meat stock with a light, egg-thickened sauce was typical of finer everyday food in bourgeois homes.
Pre-boil the celeriac
Clean and peel the celeriac roots as round as possible. Place them in boiling meat stock with salt to taste and boil them half-tender.
Hollow out and fill
Lift out the celeriac and carefully hollow it out. Fill the cavity with ground meat.
Finish boiling
Lay a thin cloth (cheesecloth) over each root and tie it together underneath. Finish boiling the celeriac roots in the same stock. If they have darkened during boiling, peel them quickly.
Make the sauce
Melt the butter, stir in the flour and thin with the strained stock the celeriac was boiled in. Let the sauce simmer for 5 minutes, take it off the heat and whisk in the egg yolk beaten with the cream, along with the lemon juice.
Plate
Stick a small parsley leaf into the center of the forcemeat, arrange the celeriac roots on a platter with finely shredded salad and serve the sauce over or alongside.
Measurements have been converted to modern units (g, dl, tbsp). "Kjøtfarce" is given as ready-made ground meat (forcemeat). The thin cloth (curtain fabric) has been replaced in the steps with cheesecloth/gauze. The language in the steps has been modernized; the transcription retains the 1914 spelling.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Note til Modernisert
Mål er omregnet til moderne enheter (g, dl, ss). «Kjøtfarce» er angitt som ferdig kjøttfarse (farsedeig). Det tynne kledet (gardintøy) er i trinnene erstattet med osteklede/gasbind. Språket i trinnene er modernisert; transkripsjonen beholder 1914-rettskrivingen.
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