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
CALF'S HEAD STEWED. Wash and soak it for an hour, bone it, take out the
brains, the tongue and the eyes. Make a forcemeat with two pounds of
beef suet, as much lean veal, two anchovies boned and washed, the peel
of a lemon, some grated nutmeg, and a little thyme. Chop them up
together with some grated bread, and mix in the yolks of four eggs. Make
part of this forcemeat into fifteen or twenty balls; boil five eggs
hard, some oysters washed clean, and half a pint of fresh mushrooms, and
mix with the rest of the forcemeat. Stuff that part of the head where
the bones were taken out, tie it up carefully with packthread, put it
into two quarts of gravy or good broth, with a blade of mace, cover it
close, and stew it very slowly for two hours. While the head is doing,
beat up the brains with some lemon-thyme and parsley chopped very fine,
some grated nutmeg, and the yolk of an egg mixed with it. Fry half the
brains in dripping, in little cakes, and fry the balls. When the head is
done, keep it warm with the brain-cakes and balls; strain off the liquor
in which the head was stewed, add to it some stewed truffles and morels,
and a few pickled mushrooms. Put in the other half of the brains
chopped, boil them up together, and let them simmer a few minutes. Lay
the head into a hot dish, pour the liquor over it, and place the balls
and the brain-cakes round it. For a small family, half the head will be
sufficient. A lamb's head may be done in the same way.
CALF'S HEART. Chop fine some suet, parsley, sweet marjoram and a boiled
egg. Add some grated bread, lemon peel, pepper, salt and mustard. Mix
them together in a paste, and stuff the heart with it, after it has
been well washed and cleaned. If done carefully, it is better baked than
roasted. Serve it up quite hot, with gravy and melted butter.
CALF'S KIDNEY. Chop veal kidney, and some of the fat; likewise a little
leek or onion, pepper, and salt. Roll the kidney up with an egg into
balls, and fry it.--A calf's heart should be stuffed and roasted as a
beef's heart; or sliced and made into a pudding, the same as for a steak
or kidney pudding.
CALF'S LIVER. There are several ways of making this into a good dish.
One is to broil it, after it has been seasoned with pepper and salt.
Then rub a bit of cold butter over, and serve it up hot and hot.--If the
liver is to be roasted, first wash and wipe it, then cut a long hole in
it, and stuff it with crumbs of bread, chopped anchovy, herbs, fat
bacon, onion, salt, pepper, a bit of butter, and an egg. Sew up the
liver, lard or wrap it in a veal caul, and put it to the fire. Serve it
with good brown gravy, and currant jelly.--If the liver and lights are
to be dressed together, half boil an equal quantity of each; then cut
them in a middling-sized mince, add a spoonful or two of the water that
boiled it, a bit of butter, flour, salt and pepper. Simmer them together
ten minutes, and serve the dish up hot.
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