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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.
Haricot Mutton (a la Bourgeoise).— Divide three pounds of the neck or breast of mutton into neat cutlets, and fry them in a little dripping tiU. they are lightly browned. Pour over them a pint and a half erf boiling stock, or, failing this, water, and add a large onion, stuck with three or four cloves, a bunch of parsley, and three or four peppercorns. Sinmier gently for three-quarters of an hour. Strain the gravy, put it back into the saucepan, and with it a dozen turnips, cut into balls, and already stewed in a little gravy. Serve the turnips in the same dish with the mutton and the gravy. If preferred, potatoes may be sub- stituted for the turnips, as in Haricot, Nor- mandy, but they must be kept whole, or the appearance of the dish will be spoilt. Pro- bable cost, 2s. lOd. Sufficient for six or eight persons. Haricot, Normandy.— Take two pounds of veal from the fillet, cut it into slices three-/ 7) Harrogate Punch. — Pour two table. quarters of an inch in thickness, and divide these into neat pieces three inches long by two inches broad. Beat them flat with a cutlet bat, season them with pepper and salt, diji them in flour, and fry them to a light brown in a little butter, and with three or four slices of loan ham. Lift them into a saucepan, pour over them a pint of boiling gravy, and add a table-spoonful of scalded and chopped parsley. Let them simmer gently for three-quarters of an hour ; draw the saucepan to the side, and put three pounds of new potatoes, or old ones cut in half, in the pan with them, and simmer again until the potatoes are sufficiently cooked. Serve as hot as possible, and send young green peas, French beans, or stewed carrots to table with them. Probable cost, 3s. Sufficient for three or four persons. Haricot of Roebuck. — Take four pounds of the neck of a roebuck, divide it into cutlets about an inch in thickness, and fry these in hot dripping till brightly bro-mied. Draw them from the fat, put them into a clean sauce- pan, and pour over them as much boiling stock I or water as will cover the meat. Remove the scum carefully as it rises, and, when the gravy boils, put "with it two or three carrots, turnips, and onions, all cut into small pieces, and fried for three or four minutes in the fat which was used for the meat. Simmer gently for an hour. Season with pepper and salt, and thicken the gravy with a little flour and butter. Just before serving, dissolve two table-spoonfuls of red currant jelly in the sauce, and add a quarter of a pint of port or claretHaricot of Roebuck. Time, two hours. Probable cost, Is. 4d. or Is. 6d. per pound. Sufficient for six or eight persons. Haricots, Green, To Preserve.— In order to preserve these vegetables for winter use, gather them on a dry day, and put them at once into -n-ide-mouthed liottlcs, cork se- curely, and put them into a saucepan of cold water. Let them remain in the water for an hour after it boils, tie a bladder oyer the corks, and keep the bottles in a dry place. Probable cost, 2d. per pound. Harrogate Pudding (sometimes called Harrogate Pudding