Best leeks with celery

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Preparation Time:

10 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Easy

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Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 Head of celery
4 Leeks

-------------------------FOR SAUCE------------------------------
1/2 ts Ground pepper
1/4 c Vegetable stock
2 c Celery stock
1 ts Honey

Put pieces of celery in water, bring to boil, then simmer for 15
minutes. Drain and reserve celery. In a fresh saucepan, cook the
heads and tender parts of leeks until 1/4 of the water has boiled
away.

For the sauce, combine pepper, stock and honey, and add to strained
celery stock. Bring to boil and simmer for 25 minutes to reduce. Put
the cooked leeks into a new saucepan and pour the sauce over them.
Heat the sauce with the leeks and serve.

The celery stalks may be added, if you wish.

Source - The Roman Cookery of Apicius