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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.
Prepare the meat as in Xo. 56 ; prepare the beans as follows : — Shell a pint of the large white sort (they should lie in water all night) , put them in sufficient water to cover them -nath an ounce of Australian fat. Let them boil tiU quite tender (they will take three hours) ; rub through a wire sieve — they should be very thick — season nicelj', add one ounce of butterBeef and Haricot Beans, and return to the stewpan. Stir till hot, and serve roimd the beef. 58. MiiioTON OF Beef. Cut six onions into thin slices, fry in two ounces of fat till brown; add one table-spoonful of flom-, nearly one pint of water, and ketchup ; pejiper and salt to season ; stir over the fire to boil ten minutes, and pour over the beef dished up in slices; strew raspings over it, bake a quarter of an hour, and serve hot. A spoonful of chutnee wiU be found a great improvement. 59. Mutton avitk French Beans. Prepare some mutton as in recipe No. 23 ; lay it in a flat dish. Boil French beans till tender, strain the water off, and stir them in the pan in which the meat has been fried with one ounce of butter, pepperMinoton of Beef and salt, half a pint of thickened brown gravy. Pour round the meat, and serve. GO. Smoking Chimney. This recipe requires a tin shape, with a tin lid fitting to the top, through which a fun- nel like a cottage chimney rises. Cut beef or mutton in dice, stir over the fire with a table- spoonful of Harvey Sauce, four table-spoonfuls of gravy, a boiled and cut-up onion, and two table-spoonfuls of flour, one ounce of butter, a few cooked mushrooms, and pepper and salt to season. Put this in the lower part of the tin. On the lid place a layer of mashed potatoSmoking Chimney raised like a cottage roof ; the steam from below will rise through the funnel, and give the effect 'of a smoking chimney. 61. Beef with Sheep's Liver. Cut up thick slices of beef and thin slices of liver, pepper and salt both, and flour them well. Put the liver into a dripping-pan with equal slices of good bacon and a pint of waterBeef with Sheep's Liver ; cover them with very thin slices of onion ; let them cook thoroughly, stirring them every flve minutes, and flouring them well each time. When the liver is thoroughly done put in the beef ; stir about gently to give it the flavour of the gravj-, and when quite hot serve. 62. Sheep's Heart, Stuffed. Prepare some forcemeat as in recipe No. 15 ; stuff the hearts with it — not too f uU, or the stuf- flng will burst out. Brush the hearts over with milk, and roll in flour. Fry them in a little fat and turn them about on all sides till nicely browned ; put in a stevq3an with a pint of well- seasoned stock. Let them simmer one hour and a half, or till tender; drain away the gravy, skim it, and boil it shar^jly till reduced to one- haK, thicken with a little flour (a glassful of claretSheep's Heart, Stuffed is an improvement), pour over the hearts, and serve very hot. The hearts are better placed on a layer of Australian mince made very hot and savoiuy. 63. Beef and Kidneys. Fry beef in sUces and kidneys in very thin sUces, lay them alternately one over the other ; pour over them a rich brown gravy, and serve with fried bacon laid over them at intervals. 64. Beef and Tomato Sauce. Beef and Tomato Sauce