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
them too long, and they become in consequence less nutricious. If
scalded only, the liquor will require greater care in removing the fat;
but the jelly will be far stronger, and of course allow more water.
Jelly is equally good if made of cow-heels nicely cleaned, and will be
much stronger than what is made from calf's feet.
CALF'S FEET PUDDING. Boil four feet quite tender, pick off the meat, and
chop it fine. Add some grated bread, a pound of chopped suet, half a
pint of milk, six eggs, a pound of currants, four ounces of citron, two
ounces of candied peel, a grated nutmeg, and a glass of brandy. Butter
the cloth and flour it, tie it close, and boil it three hours.
CALF'S HEAD BOILED. Clean it carefully and soak it in water, that it may
look very nice, and take out the brains for sauce. Wash them well, tie
them up in a cloth, with a little sage and parsley; put them into the
pot at the same time with the head, and scum the water while boiling. A
large head will take two hours, and when the part which joined the neck
becomes tender it is done. Take up the brains and chop them with the
sage and parsley, and an egg boiled hard. Put them into a saucepan with
a bit of butter, pepper and salt, and warm them up. Peel the tongue, lay
it in the middle of the dish, with the brain sauce round it. Strew over
the head some grated bread and chopped parsley, and brown it by the fire
in a separate dish, adding bacon, pickled pork, and greens.
CALF'S HEAD COLLARED. Scald the skin off a fine head, clean it nicely,
and take out the brains. Boil it tender enough to remove the bones, and
season it high with mace, nutmeg, salt, and white pepper. Put a layer of
chopped parsley, then a quantity of thick slices of fine ham, or a
beautiful coloured tongue skinned, and then the yolks of six nice yellow
eggs stuck here and there about. Roll the head quite close, and tie it
up tight, placing a cloth under the tape, as for other collars. Boil it,
and then lay a weight upon it.
CALF'S HEAD FRICASSEED. Clean and half-boil part of a head; cut the meat
into small bits, and put it into a tosser, with a little gravy made of
the bones, some of the water it was boiled in, a bunch of sweet herbs,
an onion, and a blade of mace. The cockscombs of young cockrels may be
boiled tender, and then blanched, or a sweetbread will do as well.
Season the gravy with a little pepper, nutmeg, and salt. Rub down some
flour and butter, and give all a boil together. Then take out herbs and
onion, and add a small cup of cream, but do not boil it in. Serve with
small bits of bacon rolled up and forcemeat balls.
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