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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.
in a stewpan with a slice of butter or drip- ping, two sliced onions, a handful of parslej', a blade of mace, four cloves, and six or eight peppercorns. Shake the saucepan over the fire till the ingredients become sKghtly browned, then pour in gradually a quart of hot water. Let this boil, and thicken with a lump of brown thickening. FaiHng this, mix a table- spoonful of flour smoothly with a little cold water in a basin. Stu- a portion of the boiling- liquor with this, and add it to the rest. Add also a table-spoonful of ketchup and as much sugar browning as will make the gravy of a good colour. Cover the saucepan closely, and let its contents simmer gently till the gravy is strong and pleasantly flavoured. Strain the sauce, let it cool a short time, clear it from fat, stir in some saltVeal Olives, let it boil, and it will be ready for use. If there are no bones from the veal, one pennj'worth of fresh bones or half a pound of lean beef or veal maybe used instead. Time, one hour and a half to simmer the bones, two hours to stew the olives. Probable cost, veal, Is. Id. per pound. Sufficient for five or six persons. Veal Olives (another way). — Cut five slices of veal sLx inches long, four wide, and as thin as possible, from the fillet, and an equal number of exceedingly thin slices of bacon of the same shape and size. Fatten the veal with a chopper, spread a portion of the forcemeat upon it, and cover this with the bacon. Pioll the olives fiiTuly, and fasten them with a skewer, or bind them with twine. Flour them, or if preferred dip them twice in beaten egg and bread-crumbs. Brown them in a httle fat, put them side by side in a small stewpan, cover with gravy, and simmer very gently till tender, basting them constantly. When done enough place them on a dish, strain and skim the gravy, and stir into it a glassful of light wine or a table- spoonful of lemon- juice or walnut-pickle. Let it boil, pour it over the oHves, and serve. By way of variety, instead of ordinary veal force- meat the stuffing may be prepared as follows : — Scrape half a pound of undressed veal and one ounce of lean ham with the back of a knife till the fibre only is left. Put this pulp into a mortar with a cleaned anchovy, an ounce of suet from the loin chopped separately, a tea-spoonful of finely-chopped parsley, half a tea-spoonful of mixed and powdered herbs, a dessert-spoon- ful of corn-flour, and a little salt, cayenne, and grated nutmeg. Mix and pound the ingi-edients thoroughly, and bind the forcemeat together with beaten &gg. Time, about two hours to stew the olives. Probable cost, veal. Is. Id per pound. Sufficient for four or five persons. Veal Olives (another way) . — Prepare the olives in the usual way. Brown them in a little fat, drain them, pack them in a saucepan, and stew them in gi-avy till tender. A few minutes before serving put with them half a pint of stewed button mushrooms, a table- spoonful of lemon pickle or lemon- juice, and a glassful of Marsala. A dozen fried oysters may be added if hked. Veal Olives Veal Olives, Eoasted.— Prepare the olives as before. Skewer them and bind them firmly to keep in the forcemeat. Flour them. VEA ( 1058 ) VEA