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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

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.
Pork, Bladebone of, — The bladebone of pork with very little meat upon it is occa- sionally cut from a fully-grown bacon hog. It is best broiled over a quick fire until the meat is done through. A minute before it is taken from the fire a little pepper and salt should be sprinkled over it. Serve on a hot dish with a tea-spoonful of mustard mixed with a piece of butter the size of an egg laid upon the meat. Time to broil, ten to fifteen minutes. Pro- bable cost, 8d. to 9d. per pound. Pork Brawn. — Take a small pig's head with the tongue, and two pig's feet. Clean and wash them, sprinkle two table-spoonfuls of salt over them, and let them drain until the following day. Dry them with a soft cloth, and rub into them a powder made of six ounces of common salt, six ounces of moist sugar, three-quarters of an ounce of saltjjetre, and three-quarters of an ounce of black pepper. Dry the powder well, and rub it into every part of the head, tongue, ears, and feet: turn them over and rub them again every day for ten days. Wash the pickle from them, cut off the ears, and boil them with the feet in a separate saucepan with as much cold water as will cover them. They will require to be boiled one hour and a half before the head, and afterwards may be put with it. Put the head and tongue into a stewpan, cover -wath cold water, and let them boil gently until the bones will leave the meat. Take them up, drain them, cut the meat into small pieces, first re- moving the bones from the head, feet, and ears, and the skin from the tongue ; do this as quickly as possible. Season the mince with a tea-spoonful of white pepper, three salt-spoon- fuls of powdered mace, one salt-spoonful of grated nutmeg, and one salt-spoonful of cayennePork Brawn. Stir all well together, press the meat while still warm into a brawn tin, and lay a heavy weight on the lid. Put it in a cool place until the following day, dip the mould in boihng watei-, turn the brawn out, and serve on POR 602 ) POR u neatly-folded napkin. Vinegar and mustard should be served with pork brawn. Time to boil the head, four or iive hours ; the feet and ears, six hours and a half. Probable cost of head, 5d. to 6^d. per pound. Sufficient for a good-sized breakfast or luncheon dish. Pork, Breast of, with Rice.— Wash one pound of best rice, and boil it in a quart of water for five minutes. Drain it, and put it aside. Cut a pound of the breast of pork, fat and lean together, into dice. Fry these in two ounces of butter till they are lightly browned, then add the rice, thi-ee pints of stock or water, and a little pepper and salt if required. Sim- mer all gently for half an hour, and stir the mixture occasionally to keep the rice from burning to the bottom of the saucepan. Serve all together on a hot dish-ndth a pound of fried sausagesPork, Breast of, with Rice laid round it. Time, three-quarters of an hour. Probable cost, Is. 6d., exclusive of the sausages.