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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.
Veal Kidney. — A veal kidney should not properly be separated from the loin, but should be roasted and served with it. If wished, howe^'er, it may be cut off, and may then be served with stews of veal, or minced and made into forcemeat, and served on fried bread, or it may be broiled or fried like a sheep's kidney. Veal Kidney (a la maitre d'h6tel).— Cut a veal kidney in half lengthwise. Season the pieces with salt and pepper, dip them in clari- fied butter, and afterwards in bread-crumbs, and broU until sufficiently cooked. Put two ounces of the freshest butter into an enamelled saucepan, add a dessert-spoonful of finely- minced parsley, a pinch of salt, another of pepper, and a tea-spoonful of strained lemon- juicVeal Kidney (a la maitre d'hotel)e. Work these ingredients well together with a wooden spoon, not on the fire, but near it. "When thoroughly mixed, put the butter on a hot dish, jjlace the broiled kidney upon it, and serve. Time, seven or eight minutes to broil the veal kidney ; three or four minutes to mix the sauce. Probable cost, lOd. Suflicient for one person. Veal Kidney, Broiled. — Skin the kid- ney, and cut it in halves lengthwise. Flatten these, season with salt and cayenne, dip them in clarified butter, and bread-crumb them. Broil over a clear fire, and serve on a hot dish with a small piece of maitre d'hotel butter under them. This butter may be made as follows : — Pick and wash half an ounce of parsley. Chop it small, then put it in the comer of a napkin, dip it in cold water, and wring it dry. Put it in a basin with a little pepper and salt, three ounces of butter, and a dessert-spoon- ful of lemon-juice. Beat it with a wooden spoon near the fire tiU it looks like cream, when it will be ready for use. If it is placed too near the fire to melt the butter the preparation wiU be spoilt Time to broil the kidney, eight minutes — four minutes to each side. Veal Kidney Cakes.— Take a cold veal kidney, mince finely both fat and lean, and mix with it an equal weight of finely-grated bread- crumbs. Season rather highly with pepper and salt, and bind the mixture together Avith the yolk of a well-beaten egg. Fonn it into cakes, dip these into melted butter, and afterwards into finely-grated bread-crumbs, and fry them in a little hot butter or lard till brightly browned. Drain the fat from them before serving, and aiTange neatly on a dish garnished with parsleyVeal Kidney Cakes. Send good brown sauce to table in a tureen. Time to fry the cakes, about ten minutes. Probable cost, 6d. Sufficient for two or three persons. Veal Kidneys, Roasted.— Take two veal kidneys from a loin of veal which has been roasted imtil done enough. IMince them finely with some fat, and add a table-spoonful of flavouring made of mushrooms which have been stewed in butter, then chopped small, and mixed with parsley, thj-me, and onion also fried. Season the forcemeat with salt and cayenne, and bind it together with raw egg. Cut ene or two slices of stale crumb of bread into neat shapes. Fry these in hot fat till they are brightly browned on both sides, then drain VEA ( 1051 ) VEA them, and spread the forcemeat upon them half an inch thick. Brush the surface over with yolk of egg, and sprinkle bread-crumbs upon it. Place the pieces of bread thus prcpai-ed on a very hot dish, co\-er with a dish-cover, and serve immediately. Veal, Knuckle of, and Rice Soup.— Forcemeat on Fried Bread