Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Send it to table with sippets or three-cornered pieces of toasted
bread, lain all round the dish.
HASHED MUTTON.
Cut into small pieces the lean of some cold mutton that has been
under-done, and season it with pepper and salt. Take the bones and
other trimmings, put them into a sauce-pan with as much water as will
cover them, and some sliced onions, and let them stew till you have
drawn from them a good gravy. Having skimmed it well, strain the gravy
into a stew-pan, and put the mutton into it. Have ready-boiled some
carrots, turnips, potatoes and onions. Slice them, and add them to the
meat and gravy. Set the pan on hot coals, and let it simmer till the
meat is warmed through, but do not allow it to boil, as it has been
once cooked already. Cover the bottom of a dish with slices of buttered
toast. Lay the meat and vegetables upon it, and pour over them the
gravy.
Tomatas will be found an improvement.
If green peas, or Lima beans are in season, you may boil them, and put
them to the hashed mutton; leaving out the other vegetables, or serving
them up separately.
A CASSEROLE OF MUTTON.
Butter a deep dish or mould, and line it with potatoes mashed with milk
or putter, and seasoned with pepper and salt. Fill it with slices of
the lean of cold mutton, or lamb, seasoned also. Cover the whole with
more mashed potatoes. Put it into an oven, and bake it till the meat is
thoroughly warmed, and the potatoes brown. Then carefully turn it out
on a large dish; or you may, if more convenient, send it to table in
the dish it was baked in.
MUTTON HARICO.
Take a neck of mutton, cut it into chops, and fry them brown. Then put
them into a stew-pan with a bunch of sweet herbs, two or three cloves,
a little mace, and pepper and salt to your taste. Cover them with
boiling water, and let them stew slowly for about an hour. Then cut
some carrots and turnips into dice; slice some onions, and cut up a
head of celery; put them all into the stew-pan, and keep it closely
covered except when you are skimming off the fat. Let the whole stew
gently for an hour longer, and then send it to table in a deep dish,
with the gravy about it.
You may make a similar harico of veal steaks, or of beef cut very thin.
STEWED LEG OF MUTTON.
Take a leg of mutton and trim it nicely. Put it into a pot with three
pints of water; or with two pints of water and one quart of gravy drawn
from bones, trimmings, and coarse pieces of meat. Add some slices of
carrots, and a little salt. Stew it slowly three hours. Then put in
small onions, small turnips, tomatas or tomata catchup, and shred or
powdered sweet marjoram to your taste, and let it stew three hours
longer. A large leg will require from first to last from six hours and
a half to seven hours stewing. But though it must be tender and well
done all through, do not allow it to stew to rags. Serve it up with the
vegetables and gravy round it. Have mashed potatoes in another dish.
TO ROAST LAMB.
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