Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
To accompany a fillet of veal, the usual dish is boiled ham or bacon.
A shoulder of veal may be stuffed and roasted in a similar manner.
TO STEW A BREAST OF VEAL.
Divide the breast into pieces according to the position of the bones.
Put them into a stew-pan with a few slices of ham, some whole pepper, a
bunch of parsley, and a large onion quartered. Add sufficient water to
keep it from burning, and let it stew slowly till the meat is quite
tender. Then put to it a quart or more of green peas that have boiled
twenty minutes in another pot, and a piece of butter rolled in flour.
Let all stew together a quarter of an hour longer. Serve it up, with
the veal in the middle, the peas round it, and the ham laid on the
peas.
You may stew a breast of veal with tomatas.
TO STEW A FILLET OF VEAL.
Take a fillet of veal, rub it with salt, and then with a sharp knife
make deep incisions all over the surface, the bottom as well as the top
and sides. Make a stuffing of grated stale bread, butter, chopped sweet
marjoram, grated lemon-peel, nutmeg, pepper and salt, mixed up with
beaten yolk of egg to bind and give it consistency. Fill the holes or
incisions with the stuffing, pressing it down well with your fingers.
Reserve some of the stuffing to rub all over the outside of the meat.
Have ready some very thin slices of cold boiled ham, the fatter the
better. Cover the veal with them, fastening them on with skewers. Put
it into a pot, and stew it slowly in a very little water, just enough
to cover it. It will take at least five hours to stew; or more, in
proportion to its size. When done, take off the ham, and lay it round
the veal in a dish.
You may stew with it a quart or three pints of young green peas, put in
about an hour before dinner; add to them a little butter and pepper
while they are stewing. Serve them up in the dish with the veal, laying
the slices of ham upon them.
If you omit the ham, stew the veal entirely in lard.
TO STEW A KNUCKLE OF VEAL.
Lay four wooden skewers across the bottom of your stew-pan, and place
the meat upon them; having first carefully washed it, and rubbed it
with salt. Add a table-spoonful of whole pepper, the leaves from a
bunch of sweet marjoram, a bunch of parsley leaves chopped, two onions
peeled and sliced, and a piece of butter rolled in flour. Pour in two
quarts of water. Cover it closely, and after it has come to a boil,
lessen the fire, and let the meat only simmer for two hours or more.
Before you serve it up, pour the liquid over it.
This dish will be greatly improved by stewing with it a few slices of
ham, or the remains of a cold ham.
Veal when simply boiled is too insipid. To stew it is much better.
VEAL CUTLETS.
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