Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
When the chitterlings are quite tender all through, take them up and
drain them. Place in the bottom of a dish a slice or two of buttered
toast with all the crust cut off. Lay the chitterlings on the toast,
and send them to table with the stewed onions in a sauce-boat. When you
take the chitterlings on your plate season them with pepper and
vinegar.
This, if properly prepared, is a very nice dish.
TO FRY CALF’S FEET.
Having first boiled them till tender, cut them in two, and (having
taken out the large bones) season the feet with pepper and salt, and
dredge them well with flour. Strew some chopped parsley or sweet
marjoram over them, and fry them of a light brown in lard or butter.
Serve them up with parsley-sauce.
TO FRY CALF’S LIVER.
Cut the liver into thin slices. Season it with pepper, salt, chopped
sweet herbs, and parsley. Dredge it with flour, and fry it brown in
lard or dripping. See that it is thoroughly done before you send it to
table. Serve it up with its own gravy.
Some slices of cold boiled ham fried with it will be found an
improvement.
You may dress a calf’s heart in the same manner.
LARDED CALF’S LIVER.
Take a calf’s liver and wash it well. Cut into long slips the fat of
some bacon or salt pork, and insert it all through the surface of the
liver by means of a larding-pin. Put the liver into a pot with a
table-spoonful of lard, a little water, and a few tomatas, or some
tomata catchup; adding one large or two small onions minced fine, and
some sweet marjoram leaves rubbed very fine. The sweet marjoram will
crumble more easily if you first dry it before the fire on a plate.
Having put in all these ingredients, set the pot on hot coals in the
corner of the fire-place, and keep it stewing, regularly and slowly,
for four hours. Send the liver to table with the gravy round it.
TO ROAST SWEET-BREADS.
Take four fine sweet-breads, and having trimmed them nicely, parboil
them, and then lay them in a pan of cold water till they become cool.
Afterwards dry them in a cloth. Put some butter into a sauce-pan, set
it on hot coals, and melt and skim it. When it is quite clear, take it
off. Have ready some beaten egg in one dish, and some grated
bread-crumbs in another. Skewer each sweet-bread, and fasten them on a
spit. Then glaze them all over with egg, and sprinkle them with
bread-crumbs. Spread on some of the clarified butter, and then another
coat of crumbs. Roast them before a clear fire, at least a quarter of
an hour. Have ready some nice veal gravy flavoured with lemon-juice,
and pour it round the sweet-breads before you send them to table.
LARDED SWEET-BREADS.
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