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A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes

1914

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Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Skin and neatly draw the hare (if there is any blood left, preserve it mixed with a little sugar) ; preserve the liver, carefully removing the gall ; cut the hare into twelve or fourteen neat joints ; place in deep dish or jar ; season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, sliced onion, two cloves, one sprig of thyme and bay leaves. Add the wine and let it soak, well mixed, for five or six hours ; lift out the pieces and drain on a cloth ; fry them lightly in a saute pan with the butter ; dredge with flour and stir over a brisk fire until a light brown colour ; moisten with stock, red wine and liquor. Fry the bacon, previously cut into dice, and put with the mixture, when the latter boils. Simmer for about 103 THE DUDLEY RECIPES an hour ; put in the onions, previously braised in a saucepan, and keep hot. Chop the liver and heart very finely and mix with the blood (if any) and add it to the stew about a quarter of an hour before it is done. Have ready some croutes of fried bread. Dish up the whole as neatly as possible ; garnish with braised onions and croutons round the dish. Pour over it all the sauce and serve with some red-currant jelly in a sauceboat. A GERMAN WAY OF ROASTING HARE mAKE the back of the hare (the rable) from the root of the neck to the tail (the latter being included) ; clear it of all tendons and delicately lard with bacon. Roast before a fierce fire for twenty minutes, so that it is only just done. The pan in which tjie rable has been roasted should be swilled with sour cream (this cream constitutes the accompaniment), and a few drops of lemon juice or a tablespoonful of melted meat glaze may be added, if liked. Serve some of the sauce in a boat separately. 104 POULTRY AND GAME DISHES MOUSSE OF HARE / 1IIOP and pound one pound of hare meat, free ^ from skin and bone. Add to it three ounces of finely chopped fried bacon and two ounces of ham. Work in the yolks of three eggs and half a gill of cream. Rub through a sieve and mix with sufficient reduced Espagnol sauce to form a light farce (test it before using). Season well and fill into a plain buttered timbale or charlotte mould. Cook for forty-five minutes. Some chopped truffles or mushrooms can be served as a garnish, if liked. % QUAILS IN CASSEROLE /~100K them in butter in the fireproof dish in ^ which they will be served ; swill with a little brandy ; add a little game essence ; cover and serve very hot. Quails should always be very lightly cooked, so as to preserve their fat. They are quite spoilt if overdone. % POACHED QUAILS TDOACH the quails lightly in good strong gela- tinous veal stock and serve on fried bread croutons. 105 THE DUDLEY RECIPES QUAILS WITH GRAPES /^OOK the quails lightly in butter ; swill the pan A-'' with a few drops of dry white wine and a little “ Verjuice ” ; add half a tablespoonful of strong game fumet for each quail and dish up in a very hot cocotte with about one ounce of freshly peeled grapes to each quail. QUAILS WITH TRUFFLES COOK the quails in butter ; dish them each on a fried crouton and in the centre of the dish set some nice truffles, cooked in champagne and chicken glaze. r# CAILLES DUBARRY TDREPARE some cases made with the following batter : — -