Kidneys and Bacon

Ingredients

• a tablespoonful of flour
• a salt-spoonful of salt
• half a salt-spoonful of pepper
• a dessert-spoonful of mushroom ketchup
• a tablespoonful of claret

Method

1. 1

   Trim the fat from the kidneys and cut them into slices.

2. 2

   Mix flour, salt, and pepper on a plate.

3. 3

   Dip each kidney slice into the mixture.

4. 4

   Melt bacon fat or butter in a frying pan, fry the bacon until done, then fry the kidney slices for about four minutes.

5. 5

   Prepare a sauce by adding flour to the remaining fat, mix with water, and stir until it boils.

6. 6

   Strain over the kidneys and add mushroom ketchup and claret if desired.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Kidneys and Bacon. — Trim away the fat ; skin and cut each kidney into slices the round way. Mix on a plate a table¬ spoonful of flour, a salt-spoonful of salt, and half a salt-spoonful of pepper. Dip each slice into the mixture. Melt a little bacon fat or butter in the frying-pan. When it is melted, put in the rashers of bacon procured for the purpose yesterday. They must be cut very thinly into small pieces convenient for serving. Fry them very gently over a slow fire, and turn them repeatedly. When done enough, put them on the dish on which they are to be served, and fry the slices of kidney in the same fat. In one minute turn them * in about four minutes they will be done enough, and may be put on the dish with the bacon. They ought to be slightly under¬ done. Pour away the superabundant fat, sprinkle a tea-spoonful of flour into the remainder, and mix it thoroughly, beating it smooth with the back of a wooden spoon. Add gradually as much, water as will make a tolerably thick sauce. Stir this over the fire till it boils, 4 A FEAR'S COOKERY. then strain it over the kidneys. A dessert-spoonful of mushroom ketchup may be added to the gravy, and, if liked, a table-spoonful of clare

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