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The paper-bag cookery manual

1911

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Presented as published in 1911. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Fold the open end of the bag carefully and fasten with clips, then put it on a grid shelf in a fairly hot oven to cook for about 35 minutes ; by this time the meat and stuffing should be quite tender. Kemove the bag from the oven, slit it open, and take out the meat rolls, remove the string, dish up the meat, and strain the sauce over. Beef Rolls or Olives. Proceed the same as directed for veal olives, only substituting lean beef (rump steak or top side)Beef Rolls or Olives for veal. THE PAPER-BAG COOKERY MANUAL. 57 Steamed Chop. Procure two or three mutton or lamb chops and trim each neatly, cutting off the superfluous fat, fold in the ends and fasten with a skewer, then season with salt and pepper, and spread over each side with butter. Place the chops in a well buttered paper-bag with a few slices of onion and carrot, and, if liked, a few pieces of celery, and also three table-spoonfuls of waterSteamed Chop. Close up the end of the bag and fasten with clips, then cook on a grid or trivet in a hot oven for about 25 minutes. Slit open the bag, take out the chops and remove the skewers, arrange the chops on a dish, pour over any liquor found in the bag, sprinkle over a little chopped parsley, and serve hot. A dish of mashed or fried potatoes should accompany this dish. Exeter Stew. Cut into thin slices about a pound of lean beef (rump steak or top side). Mix on a plate two table-spoonfuls of flour, a tea- spoonful of salt, and a quarter of a tea- spoonful of pepper ; dip each slice of beef into this, and shake well. Have ready a grease-proof paper-bag, thickly buttered inside. Line it with a small handful of finely shredded or grated carrot, moisten with a ladleful of stock or waterExeter Stew, and upon this place the seasoned pieces of meat. Fold in the end of the bag, and fasten it securely with clips. Place it in a hot oven on a 58 THE PAPER-RAG COOKERY MANUAL. grid shelf or trivet, and allow to cook for about three-quarters of an hour. Take up the bag, slit the paper, and turn the con- tents of the bag on to a deep dish, surround with savoury balls, which must be cooked separately. Note. — The stew may be cooked longer if liked, it will not hurt. Savoury Balls. Take 4 ozs. of sifted flour, 2 ozs. of finely chopped beef suet, a small tea-spoon- ful of finely chopped parsley, a good pinch of dried savoury herbs, half an onion peeled and finely chopped. Mix these ingredients in a basin, season with salt and pepper, then add sufficient cold water to make into a fairly stiff paste. Divide this into even pieces, and shape into small balls ; dip each ball into a little flour, and shake, then place into a well buttered paper-bag, add about a gill of waterSavoury Balls, close up the bag securely, and cook on a grid shelf in the oven from 85 to 40 minutes. Haricot Mutton. Soak, over-night, half a pint of haricot beans in tepid water. Cut about 1J lbs. of neck or loin of mutton into chops or cutlets, trim off the projecting bones, and season with salt and pepper; sprinkle about a table-spoonful of flour over the meat. Put it, with the beans, in a well buttered paper- bag, adding also three-quarters of a pint of stock or water, a tea-spoonful of Tarragon THE PAPER-BAG COOKERY MANUAL. 59 Haricot Mutton