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1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
For details respecting Culinary Processes, Utensils, Lamb — continued. v wineglassful of port wineLamb Chops with Brown Sauce with the sauce, strain it over the chops, and serve. Lamb Chops with Champagne Sauce. — Pare nicely and flatten six Lamb chops, season with 1 pinch of salt and i pinch of pepper, fry slightly in a saute-pan with loz. of butter for one minute on each side, then let them cool. Cover the surfaces with chicken forcemeat, wrap them in crepinette (a skin found in the stomach of the pig), and dip in beaten egg, then in fresh breadcrumbs, and cook in a saute-pan with 2oz. of butter for four minutes on each side. Arrange a paper frill at the end of each chop, and serve with § pint of hot champagne sauceLamb Chops with Champagne Sauce on the dish and the chops on that. Lamb Chops with Perigueux Sauce. Pare neatly six chops, flatten them well, and season with 1 pinch of salt and J pinch of pepper. Make an incision in each chop, and garnish the inside with a slice of truffle previously dipped in half- glaze, then dip the chops in beaten egg, roll them in fresh breadcrumbs, and put them into a saute-pan with 2oz. of butter, and fry for five minutes on each side. Pour £ pint of perigueux sauce on the dish, arrange the chops over it, with curled paper on their ends, and serve. Lamb Croquettes. — (1) Finely chop 31b. of raw Lamb ; peel and mince three onions, mix all together, and season with salt and pepper. Divide the mixture into small quantities, and roll them into balls, put them in a saucepan of water, and boil. Put the yolks of four eggs in a saucepan with the strained juice of two lemons and 1 saltspoonful of salt, and beat them well ; stir over a slow fire with a wooden spoon until they thicken, taking care to move them off the fire before they have time to boil, or they will curdle and be spoilt ; then mix in gradually 1 teacupful of the liquor in which the meat balls were boiled. Stir the sauce at the side of the fire for ten minutes. Arrange the croquettes in a group in the centre of a hot dish, pour the sauce round them, and serve while very hot. (2) Procure a piece of cold cooked leg of Lamb, remove all the sinewy skin, and cut the meat into dice ; mix with it half its quantity of cooked artichoke-bottoms, also cut in dice. Keduce 1 teacupful of bechamel sauce in a stewpan, and mix with it 1 teacupful of thick cream and 1 teacupful of melted glaze. Stir over the fire till the sauce is thick and coats the spoon, then take it off, and put in the prepared Lamb and artichokes ; grate in a little nutmeg, and add a sprinkling of saltLamb Croquettes ; spread the preparation on a baking-sheet in a layer -£in. thick, and let it get thoroughly cool. Form the preparation into croquettes the shape of a large cork, roll them in breadcrumbs, then in beaten egg, and again in breadcrumbs. Put some fat in a frying-pan, and when it is boiling put the croquettes in, a few at a time, and fry till nicely browned. When all are cooked, drain them, put an ornamental paper on a hot dish, arrange boiled artichoke- bottoms over the dish (see Fig. 1019), and serve. Lamb Cutlets a l’Anglaise. — Cut the first chops off a neck of Lamb, take away the bone and fat, and divide the chops into slices ; egg-and-breadcrumb them, fry both sides in clarified butter till brown, and dish them. Thicken a little beef gravy, flavour it with lemon-juice, pour over the cutlets, and serve very hot.