The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
GRAVY FOR FOWL. When there is no meat to make gravy of, wash the feet of
the fowl nicely, and cut them and the neck small. Simmer them with a
little bread browned, a slice of onion, a sprig of parsley and thyme,
some salt and pepper, and the liver and gizzard, in a quarter of a pint
of water, till half wasted. Take out the liver, bruise it, and strain
the liquor to it. Then thicken it with flour and butter, and a
tea-spoonful of mushroom ketchup will make the gravy very good.
GRAVY FOR WILD FOWL. Set on a saucepan with half a pint of veal gravy,
adding half a dozen leaves of basil, a small onion, and a roll of orange
or lemon peel. Let it boil up for a few minutes, and strain it off. Put
to the clear gravy the juice of a Seville orange, half a teaspoonful of
salt, the same of pepper, and a glass of red wine. Shalot and cayenne
may be added. This is an excellent sauce for all kinds of wild
water-fowl, and should be sent up hot in a boat, as some persons like
wild fowl very little done, and without any sauce. The common way of
gashing the breast, and squeezing in a lemon, cools and hardens the
flesh, and compels every one to eat it that way, whether they approve of
it or not.
GRAVY FOR MUTTON. To make mutton taste like venison, provide for it the
following gravy. Pick a very stale woodcock or snipe, and cut it to
pieces, after having removed the bag from the entrails. Simmer it in
some meat gravy, without seasoning; then strain it, and serve it with
the mutton.
GRAVY SOUP. Wash and soak a leg of beef; break the bone, and set it on
the fire with a gallon of water, a large bunch of sweet herbs, two large
onions sliced and fried to a fine brown, but not burnt; add two blades
of mace, three cloves, twenty berries of allspice, and forty black
peppers. Stew the soup till it is rich, and then take out the meat,
which may be eaten at the kitchen table, with a little of the gravy.
Next day take off the fat, which will serve for basting, or for common
pie crust. Slice some carrots, turnips, and celery, and simmer them till
tender. If not approved, they can be taken out before the soup is sent
to table, but the flavour will be a considerable addition. Boil
vermicelli a quarter of an hour, and add to it a large spoonful of soy,
and one of mushroom ketchup. A French roll should be made hot, then
soaked in the soup, and served in the tureen.
GRAVY WITHOUT MEAT. Put into a bason a glass of small beer, a glass of
water, some pepper and salt, grated lemon peel, a bruised clove or two,
and a spoonful of walnut pickle, or mushroom ketchup. Slice an onion,
flour and fry it in a piece of butter till it is brown. Then turn all
the above into a small tosser, with the onion, and simmer it covered for
twenty minutes. Strain it off for use, and when cold take off the fat.
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