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Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management

1885

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Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
before they are. braised, to keep the truffles in place. They may be served in a circle on a little of the sauce, or with studs for Outlets Clouti with Truffes. a ragoAt of mushrooms and truffles cooked with them ; or still more elaborately, as shown in another recipe. CUTLETS WITH TRUFFLES. GARNISHED. While the studded cutlets described in the recipe for cutlets cloute with truffles are being cooked, cut a large circle Cutlets Cloute with Truffles Garnished. from the bottom of a loaf of stale bread ; from the centre ot the loaf cut out a croustade, or vase, like that shown in the SIDE-DISHES {EJVrii£ES). 277 picture, and fry them light brown in a large frying-kettle nearly full of fat, so that they can be entirely immersed. Set the croustade upo^ the circle laid on a dish, arrange the cutlets around it after they are cooked, and fill the hollow top of the croustade with some truffles heated in the sauce with the cutlets. A deft hand, an eye for proportion, and a very sharp small knife, all are required to make a well- shaped croustade. It may be less elaborate than the one shown in the picture. V-EAL CUTLET BREADED, WITH TOMATOES. Cut about two pounds of veal-cutlet from the leg, in small slices ; season them with pepper and salt, roll them in cracker-dust, then dip them in beaten egg, and roll them again in cracker-dust. Have ready upon the fire a dripping- pan containing smoking-hot fat half an inch deep ; put the veal into the hot fat, and fry it brown on both sides. While the veal is frying, wipe half a dozen large firm tomatoes with a damp cloth, slice them about half an inch thick, roll them in flour seasoned with pepper and salt, and fry them brown in the pan with the veal. Serve both veal and tomatoes on the same dish, with the tomatoes laid neatly in a circle around the veal. The veal-cutlets may be breaded and fried, and served without the tomatoes. VEAL POT-PIE. Cut two pounds of the breast of veal in pieces about an inch square, after wiping the entire piece of meat with a damp towel ; put it over the fire in two quarts of cold water, with three cloves, a teaspoonful of salt, and a dozen pepper- corns or a small red pepper ; let it slowly reach the boiling point, removing all scum as it rises. When the broth is quite free from scum, cover the saucepan containing it, and set it 278 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY. where its contents can simmer gently for about two hours. Meantime, peel a quart of small potatoes, and lay thepi in cold water ; at the end of two hours, put them with the veal to boil. Then quickly sift together one quart of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, and two of baking-powder ; mix them to a soft dough with about a pint of cold milk or water, using no more than is required to just wet the flour; put this dough at once into the saucepan with the veal and pot^oes, either in one flat piece laid on the top of these ingredients, or by the tablespoonfiil, wetting the spoon in the broth be- fore using it to form each dumpling. Cover the saucepan, and boil its contents steadily for twenty minutes. Then serve the pot-pie hot. If the gravy is liked rather rich, stir into it the yolks of a couple of raw eggsVeal Pot-Pie before sending to the table.