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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.
Fowl, HagOUt of. — Boil down the inferior parts, bones, kc, of a couple of roast fowls, and cut the joints into neat pieces as for a fricassee. Stew with the trimmings an onion quartered, a couple of shallots, two blades of mace, some lean bits of ham, and a bunch of herbs. Cover with stock or water, and boil i very gently till all the nourishment is extracted, j The bones should be crushed before begirming I to boil. Put a piece of butter into a stewpan and let it melt ; add flour sufficient to absorb the | butter, strain the liquor from tho hones into it, j and stir over the fire for a few minutes. Season ' with pepper and salt. Place the pieces of fowl | nicely in the gra^'j-, pour in a table-spoonful of I lemon-juice, and about a tea-spoonful of pow- dered sugFowl, Hagout ofar. Let it get hot, but it should not boil. Serve with the gravj- poured over, and a | garnish of croutons. Time, one hour to stew trimmings, half an hour to stew fowl. Pro- bable cost, 9d., exclusive of fowl. Sufficient for seven or eight persons. Fowl, Rissoles of.— Take half a pound of the remains of a cold fowl, without skin or bone, and grate an ounce or two of tongue or ham, then chop aU together until the meat ia quite smooth. Boil down the bones and trim- mings with water to cov(;r, a bit of kmon-peel, a piece of a laurel-leaf, and a bit of garlic the size of a peppercorn. Boil until the liquid i.s reduced to about a quarter of a pint, which should be strained and used, at least as mucli as may be required of it, to moisten the meat. Mix ^^-ith the chopped fowl a couple of tea- spoonfuls of browned flour, and season it with white pepper, salt, and nutmeg ; add a tea- spoonfiil of chopped parsleyFowl, Rissoles of, and some of the gra^y. When wanted to make into balls (it should first be allowed to stand two or three hours to get firm), have ready beaten egg and finely- grated bread-cr\mibs ; roll the Ijalls a second time into the egg and crumbs that they may be thickly coated, and fry in plenty of boiling lard. Turn them about to get done on all sides alike of a light brown. Serve with a bouquet of fried parsley in the centre of the dish, and the rissoles round it. Time, eight minutes to frj-. Sufficient for six balls. Fowl, Roast. — Truss the fowl with the giblets under the wings. Singe it. ^\^lile roasting, baste often with butter, and sprinkle with flour some minutes before sers-ing to make it look frothy. If Uked stuffed, use a veal stufl^g, or a ham forcemeat if the fowl be very large. Serve with plenty of rich light-brown, gravy, and bread or oyster sauce. Time, three- quarters to one hour. Probable cost, 3s. to 4s. Sufficient for four or five persons. Fowl, Roast, To Carve. —Insert the knife between the leg and the body, and cut to the bone ; then turn the leg back with the fork, and, if the bird is not old, the joint will give KOAST i'OWL, TO CARVE.