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Breakfasts, luncheons, and ball suppers

1887

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Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Catch the blood when the pig is killed, stirring in a tea-spoonful of salt to each quart to prevent its curdling. Simmer in one of Adams’ milk saucepans half a pint of groats until tender, putting to them water sufficient to make them swell. Strain the blood and to each quart add one pound of the inside fat cut in squares smaller than dice, stir in the groats and add a quarter of a pint of bread- crumbs, pepper and salt to taste, and a table-spoonful of chopped sage, of thyme, and of green onions or leeks ; mix well, and fill the largest gut of a large pig, tying it in lengths of eight or nine inches. Put them in boiling water and simmer for twenty minutes and prick them. To cook, fry as other sausages. SAUSAGES, AN OXFORD RECEIPT. No. 144. Pound separately in a mortar half a pound of pork and half a pound of veal, a quarter of which should be fat, and then mix them together ; add a quarter of a pound of suet chopped very fine, half of a halfpenny roll soaked in water, two eggs beaten, just a taste of sage if liked, a drachm of pepper, and three-quarters of an ounce of salt ; mix the whole well together and pass through a sausage machine. To use, make into cakes, or roll into rolls, fry in lard, or egg and crumb and fry. SAUSAGES AUX TRUFFES, ETC. No. 145. One pound of pork, one-third of which should be fat, two ounces of bread-crumbs soaked in milk, a drachm and MEATS, MEAT PIES AND PUDDINGS. Ill a half of pepper, half an ounce of salt, a spoonful of chopped sage if liked ; mix well, and pass through a sausage machine and cook as Receipt No. 144. In the centre of either of the sausage meats when made into cakes, a puree of apple, a saute of mushrooms or of tomatoes can be inserted. SWEETBREAD CUTLETS. No. 146. Soak in water for six hours as many calf’s sweetbreads as are required, changing the water four times. Simmer for ten minutes, put them between two dishes until cold, cut them in slices about half an inch thick, egg and crumb and fry a nice light brown ; serve with a little Brown Clear Sauce (No. 35), slightly reduced. VEAL CUTLETS. No. 147. Cut into neat cutlets from a leg of veal, egg and crumb and fry in boiling lard, and serve in an entree dish with alternate slices of fried bacon and a little Brown Sauce (No. 35) reduced to half-glaze, to which add a squeeze of lemon. CALES LIVER AND BACON. No. 148. Cut in slices the size and shape of a cutlet, fry in a frying-pan as many slices of bacon as slices of liver; remove them, and fry the liver in the fat (it should not be overdone) ; arrange the liver and bacon neatly round the dish, and serve with a gill of Fine Herbs Sauce (No. 49). PIE.S. BEEFSTEAK PIE. No. 149. Cut as many pounds of rump fillet of beef as will be required into slices about an eighth of an inch thick, pepper, salt, and sprinkle with parsley, and the slightest I II2 BREAKFASTS, LUNCHEONS, AND BALL SUPPERS.