Fried veal is better for being dipped in white of egg, and rolled in
nicely pounded crumbs of bread, before it is cooked. One egg is enough
for a common dinner.
CALF'S HEAD.
Calf's head should be cleansed with very great care; particularly
the lights. The head, the heart, and the lights should boil full two
hours; the liver should be boiled only one hour. It is better to leave
the wind-pipe on, for if it hangs out of the pot while the head is
cooking, all the froth will escape through it. The brains, after being
thoroughly washed, should be put in a little bag; with one pounded
cracker, or as much crumbled bread, seasoned with sifted sage, and
tied up and boiled one hour. After the brains are boiled, they should
be well broken up with a knife, and peppered, salted, and buttered.
They should be put upon the table in a bowl by themselves. Boiling
water, thickened with flour and water, with butter melted in it, is
the proper sauce; some people love vinegar and pepper mixed with the
melted butter; but all are not fond of it; and it is easy for each one
to add it for themselves.
BEEF.
Beef soup should be stewed four hours over a slow fire. Just water
enough to keep the meat covered. If you have any bones left of roast
meat, &c. it is a good plan to boil them with the meat, and take them
out half an hour before the soup is done. A pint of flour and water,
with salt, pepper, twelve or sixteen onions, should be put in twenty
minutes before the soup is done. Be careful and not throw in salt
and pepper too plentifully; it is easy to add to it, and not easy to
diminish. A lemon, cut up and put in half an hour before it is done,
adds to the flavor. If you have tomato catsup in the house, a cupful
will make soup rich. Some people put in crackers; some thin slices of
crust, made nearly as short as common shortcake; and some stir up two
or three eggs with milk and flour, and drop it in with a spoon.
A quarter of an hour to each pound of beef is considered a good rule
for roasting; but this is too much when the bone is large, and the
meal thin. Six pounds of the rump should roast six quarters of an
hour; but bony pieces less. It should be done before a quick fire.
The quicker beef-steak can be broiled the better. Seasoned after it is
taken from the gridiron.
ALAMODE BEEF.
Tie up a round of beef so as to keep it in shape; make a stuffing of
grated bread, suet, sweet herbs, quarter of an ounce of nutmeg, a few
cloves pounded, yolk of an egg. Cut holes in the beef, and put in the
stuffing, leaving about half the stuffing to be made into balls. Tie
the beef up in a cloth, just cover it with water, let it boil an hour
and a half; then turn it, and let it boil an hour and a half more;
then turn out the liquor, and put some skewers across the bottom of
the pot, and lay the beef upon it, to brown; turn it that it may brown
on both sides. Put a pint of claret, and some allspice and cloves,
into the liquor, and boil some balls made of the stuffing in it.
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