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1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Kidney-and-Egg Patties. — Boil three eggs until hard, and mash them with a fork in a basin, add 1 teacupful of bread- crumbs, table-spoonful each of flour and finely-chopped onions and parsley, a few drops of chilli vinegar, and a dust of pepper. Mix the above ingredients well, using a small quantity of milk to bind them. Butter some small patty- pans, cover the bottom of each with a thin layer of the egg mixture, then open a tin of Kidneys and put ono in each of the pans. Cover the Kidneys with a little of the paste, strew finely-grated breadcrumb over, and put a small piece of butter on the top of each. Put the patties in a brisk oven, and bake for ten minutes. When sufficiently baked, take the patties carefully out of the tins, arrange them on a dish over which has been spread a folded napkin or an ornamental dish-paper, garnish with fresh parsley, and serve hot or cold. Kidney-and-Oyster Pudding. — Put eight or ten tinned Kidneys into a stewpan together with 1 teacupful of their liquor, 1 breakfast-cupful of tinned oysters and 1 teacupful of their liquor, 1 table-spoonful of finely-chopped onions, and J saltspoonful of powdered mace ; season to taste with salt and pepper, stand the stewpan at the side of the fire, and let the contents stew gently. Lino a well-buttered pudding- basin with a suet crust, put a cloth over, and tie it round the rim of the basin with string ; roll out a round of the crust to fit the top of the basin, and lay it on the cloth, the ends of which bring up and tie over it. Put the basin into a saucepan of boiling water, and boil for half-an-hour. At the end of that time take the cloth off the basin, put in the stowed Kidneys and oysters, fix the top on the pudding, tie the cloth over again, and boil for five minutes, then turn it out of the basin on to a hot dish, and serve. Kidney Patties. — Prepare a light lard crust. Dredge flour over a paste-board, put the dough on it and roll out very thin. Divide the paste into pieces 3in. square, place a tinned Kidney on each of the pieces of paste, season them with salt and pepper and a small quantity of pounded mace, then bring the corners of the paste up so as to entirely envelop the Kidney, moisten the edges slightly with water, and press them together with the fingers. Put a good-sized lump of fat in a stewpan, place it over the fire until beginning to boil, then put in the patties, and turn them about in the fat until of a golden brown. When fried, take the patties out of the fat with a slice, and put them on a piece of paper to drain thoroughly. Spread a folded napkin or a fancy dish-paper over a hot dish, arrange the patties on it, and serve. Kidney Pie. — Scrape the jelly off ten tinned Kidneys, and put it into a small stewpan with 1 table-spoonful of finely- chopped onions, teaspoonful each of powdered cloves and nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste ; and place over the For details respecting Culinary Processes, Kidneys — continued. Fried Kidneys