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The "Queen" cookery books: Entrees

1901

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Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
perfectly blended, stir in a gill of cream (or new milk) or stock, or equal parts of either, with a finely minced spray or two of parsley, one-third of a finely grated lemon rind, a squeeze of lemon juice, a grain of cayenne, and pepper and salt to tasteCroquettes and Rissoles, and when this is all mixed add in the minced chicken, Ac., and stir it all over the fire till thoroughly blended ; then turn it out on a dish to Fig. 13. cool. When cold, shape portions of this into balls, cutlets, corks, or any shape you please, roll it in beaten egg, and then in finely sifted breadcrumbs and fry a golden brown in hot fat (exactly as for fritters). Or have ready some puff paste rolled out very thin, and either put little balls on half of a sheet of this as in illustration, Fig. 13, cover down the remaining half of the paste, and stamp it out K 130 ENTRIES. with a fluted cutter as in Figs. 14 and 15 and fry in plenty of hot fat as before. If preferred, you may roll out the paste as before, stamp it out in rounds with the fluted cutter, place a teaspoonful of the mince on one half of the paste, folding the other half over, and pinching the moistened edges 'well together and giving the little croquette a half moon shape ; it can then be fried as it is, or dipped in broken-up vermicelli and fried. Drain thoroughly from all fat, and serve piled up with a garnish of Figs. 14 and 15. fried parsley. Any meat can be used for these, but be careful to vary the sauce and the seasonings, &c., according to the meat used. Another way of serving cooked meat is en pannequets, as French cookery books call it. For this prepare ordinary pancakes, being careful to have them pretty thin ; lay these pancakes out flat, and spread on each about two tablespoonsful of the rissole farce (having this a trifle more moist than for ordinary use), RECHAUFFES. 131 and roll eacli pancake up. Now cut them into neat lengths, place them in the frying basket and fry a delicate golden brown. Serve well drained, with fried parsley. Another way of serving these pan- cakes is to cut each up into oblongs two inches wide by three inches long, spread a very thin slice of parboiled bacon on each (mind this is smaller than the pancake), spread the farce on this, roll it up, arrange them side by side on a buttered baking tin, brush them over with beaten egg, strew bread- crumbs over them and bake in the oven till of a golden brown. Omelettes fourrees are another very favourite method of serving cooked meat. Prepare an omelet in the usual way, and have ready any nice fish, flesh, or fowl, minced and heated in any good and rather thick sauce to taste ; just as the omelet is ready to serve, slip one or more good spoonsful of this mince according to size, into the omelet, fold it over and serve.