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The complete Indian housekeeper & cook

1898

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Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
7- Cutlets, Dressed. — Prepare and cook as for braised cutletsBraised Cutlets. \Vhen three-iiuarters done remove, and add to the sauce any seasoning preferred, such as herbs, minced ham, mushrooms, truffle, &c. Thicken with the yolks of eggs or cornflour in the proportions given in Miscellaneous. Cover the cutlets with this preparation, and put them aside to set. When cold and firm, egg and crumb, and fry carefully in boiling fat. A frying biusket must be used, otherwise the cutlets in handling lose their shape. There are many varieties of dre.ssed cutlets, according to the sea.soning put into the sauce. One of the best is with celery, by using a dressing of very stiff white sauce seasoned with celery, and dre.ssing the cut- lets round a puree of celery made very thick. But the variety of dishes to be made in this way is only limited by the ingenuity of the cook. Dressed cutlets, instead of being fried, may be wrapped in oiled papers and grilled or warmed up in the oven. 8. Cutlets, of Farce. — Make a farce of any raw meat, add ham or not, incorporate mushrooms, truffles, or not. Form into cutlet shape, and either braise, poach, fry, or .sautee. It is a good pl.an to save cutlet bones to stick into these cutlets. A standard recipe for farce is given in Miscellaneous. 271 Housekeeper and Cook 0 Pntlets Plain —See Plain Entrees. Briefly, tliere may be a thousand different names for a dish of cutlets, but there are but five ways of cooking cutlets, i.e. braised, dresspl, faiced, plain, and saiiteed. All these are given. The rest, that is, the sau , flavouring, and adjuncts, remains for the cook s ingenuity. in fntlPts Sautded —Prepare the cutlets as for braising, but do lot stew Uiem sS^^^ cover one side of the cutlets with any savoury preparation. Egg, and sprinkle with fried bread-ci umbs. Put ii/the oven with a little gravy under them for ten minutes. 11 Fillets of Mutton or Lamb or Beef.— Remove nearly all fat from the fillet of mutton or lamb, and divide it into ^^^J^hle pieces Cut these lengthwise. Lard them with bacon, and set to pickle 111 StJIn mlS seasonings. Spread some butter on the bottom of a deep^ baking-dish or pie-dish, lay the fillets neatly on this ^Rh a wiiieglassful of the pickle. Bake in a quick oven for a fluaitei of an hour. When done, glaze them in a thick brown glaze, and seive with a sharp brown sauce or with any garnish suitable Scallops ot mutton or lamb are made the same way, but the fillets aie cut across like beef fillets, in thin round slices, and are not larded. In fact, scallops, epigrams, and fillets of mutton are all one. Like cutlets they can be braised, fried, or sauteed, or dressed. 12. Fritots.— Phese are simply fritters, or kromeskys vyitln)ut the bacon. The meat, sheep’s head or trotters, has to be braised first with plenty of seasoning, then cut into shapes, dipped 111 batter, and fried. They should be wrapped in pork caul, but this is not to be had in India ; a very thin pancake can be used for sloppy fritots of mince and puree. Kromeskys