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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, To Dress. — Pound together in a mortar two ounces of fat bacon and the same ■of suet. Mince two ounces of veal and grate the same weight of lean ham. Blend all in a mortar, and beat in the yolks of two hard- j boiled eggs and a tea-cupful of bread-cnmibs. \ Flavour with an ancho\y, salt, and pepper to i taste, and mix to a smooth paste with three i well-beaten eggs. Stuff a young, boned fowl j with ^this forcemeat, truss it with the legs and i wings dra^NTi inward, and put it into a ste-wq^an I wdth a little white chicken or veal broth. When [ it has stewed one houi-, take it out on a hot ! dish ; boil up the gravy, and stir in a piece of butter rolled in flour and a cupful of cream. Squeeze in the juice of half a lemonStuffed Fowl, and serve. Sxifficient for three persons. Fowl, To Hash.. — Boil down the bones and | trimmings of a roast or boiled fowl with a pint i of stock ; put in an onion or shaUot, the rind of ' half a lemon, two blades of mace, pepper, and : salt. Have ready in a clean stewpan the fowl, neatly arranged, and when the gravy has sim- mered haK an hour strain it over, and add two oimces of buttcT roUed in flour, and two dessert- spoonfuls of mushroom ketchuFowl Hashp. Serve with sippets of toasted bread. Time altogether, > three-quarters of an hour. Probable Cost, ex- ' elusive of fowl, 5d. Sufiicient for three or four ; ])ersons. Fowl, To Roast (German method) .—Roast I for half an hour before the fire a fine fowl that , has been well larded and stuft'ed A\ath force- ' meat. Take it from the spit and remove to a | stewpan. Put butter over the breast, sprinkle ] it with salt, and pour in a cup of milk or nice veal broth. Cover it closely, but baste and steam slowly. When tender, which will be in about three-quarters of an hour, serve the fowl with the sauce thickened in the dish, and a garnish of sliced lemon. Use about a tea- spoonful of arrowroot or corn-flourRoast Fowl (German Method) for the thickening. Fowl, To Souse.— Take a fowl hot from the spit, one that has been well basted with butter. Cut it into joints, and laj' them in a hot deep dish. Have ready two or three onions, shred very fine, sprinkle them over the fowl with a small table-spoonful of pepper and salt mixed. Pom* over all a pint of boiling waterFowl, To Souse, and cover so that no steam shall escape. Do not uncover until quite cold. The joints of a cold fowl may be prepared as above, and then heated in a saucepan. Eemove the meat as soon as the liquid boils, and cover closely. Sufiicient for three or four persons. Probable cost of fowl, 3s. to 3s. 6d. Fowl, To Stew. — Truss a fowl as for boiling, and put it into a stewpan containing a quart of good gravy ; add a head of celerj-, cut into j)ieces of an inch in length, pepper, salt, and a blade or two of mace. The fowl should be protected from the bottom of the stewpan ; use four- bright skewers for this purpose ; rest the fowl upon them, and stew till the gra\y is reduced to less than half its original quantity. Put the fowl on a hot dish, thicken the sauce with two ounces of butter rolled in floui-; season to taste, and add a glass of ketchupFowl, To Stew. Serve hot with the sauce poui-ed over. Time, one hour and a half to stew. Sufiicient for a dish. Fowl, To Truss (Boiled).— Pluck,