Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Turn them out on a large dish, and be careful in doing so not to break
the dumplings. Eat them with cream sauce, or with wine sauce, or with
butter, sugar, and nutmeg beaten together.
PIGEON DUMPLINGS OR PUDDINGS.
Take four pigeons and stuff them with chopped oysters, seasoned with
pepper, salt, mace, and nutmeg. Score the breasts, and loosen all the
joints with a sharp knife, as if you were going to carve them for
eating; but do not cut them quite apart. Make a sufficient quantity of
nice suet paste, allowing a pound of suet to two pounds of flour; roll
it out thick, and divide it into four. Lay one pigeon on each sheet of
the paste with the back downwards, and put at the lower part of the
breast a piece of butter rolled in flour. Close the paste over the
pigeon in the form of a dumpling or small pudding; pouring in at the
last a very little cold water to add to the gravy. Tie each dumpling in
a cloth, put them into a pot of hot water, and boil them two hours.
Send them to table with made gravy in a boat.
Partridges or quails may be cooked in this manner; also chickens, which
must be accompanied by egg sauce. These dumplings or puddings will be
found very good.
FINE SUET DUMPLINGS.
Grate the crumb of a stale six cent loaf, and mix it with nearly as
much beef suet, chopped as fine as possible. Add a grated nutmeg, and
two large table-spoonfuls of sugar. Beat four eggs with four
table-spoonfuls of white wine or brandy. Mix all well together to a
stiff paste. Flour your hands, and make up the mixture into balls or
dumplings about the size of turkey eggs. Have ready a pot of boiling
water. Put the dumplings into cloths, and let them boil about half an
hour. Serve them hot, and eat them with wine sauce.
PLAIN SUET DUMPLINGS.
Sift two pounds of flour into a pan, and add a salt-spoon of salt.
Mince very fine one pound of beef suet, and rub it into the flour. Make
it into a stiff dough with a little cold water. Then roll it out an
inch thick or rather more. Cut it into dumplings with the edge of a
tumbler. Put them into a pot of boiling water, and let them boil an
hour and a half. Send them to table hot, to eat with boiled loin of
mutton, or with molasses after the meat is removed.
INDIAN DUMPLINGS.
Take a pint of milk, and four eggs well beaten. Stir them together, and
add a salt-spoon of salt. Then mix in as much sifted Indian meal as
will make a stiff dough. Flour your hands; divide the dough into equal
portions, and make it into balls about the size of a goose egg. Flatten
each with the rolling-pin, tie them in cloths, and put them into a pot
of boiling water. They will boil in a short time. Take care not to let
them go to pieces by keeping them too long in the pot.
Serve them up hot, and eat them with corned pork, or with bacon. Or you
may eat them with molasses and butter after the meat is removed.
If to be eaten without meat, you may mix in the dough a quarter of a
pound of finely chopped suet.
LIVER DUMPLINGS.
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