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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

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.
When the sauce is on the point of being done, put into it a couple of ounces of truffles cut into slices and fried on both sides in butter. Give them a couple of boils, and the sauce is ready. ]\Ieanwhile, make some balls of the stuffing as indicated for the Ox-palates au Gratin, and frj- them in butter of a nice brown, taking care that they be thoroughly done. When the brains are arranged in the dish with the sippets, garnish with these forcemeat balls, and with some crawfish ; then pour the sauce over them, and serve up immediately. Sheep's Brains, Matelote of.— Take I eight rmbroken sheep's brains. Put them into 1 a large vessel with some lukewarm water; take off the skin, and let them disgorge for two hours. When they are become quite white, blanch them in boiling water, vinegar, and salt; and when they are very firm put them in cold water, after which place some layers of bacon round a stewpan big enough to hold all the eight brains ; add a small onion with one clove, a small bundle of pars- ley well-seasoned, and some salt, and cover with some layers of bacon and a round of paper; a httle broth is required, and a few slices of lemon✪ Sheep's Brains, Matelote of to keep them very white. Twenty minutes will suffice to boil them, but they niust be boiled two hours or more before dinner to acquire a flavour; then at dinner you must have ready some croutons, or small crusts of bread, in quantity equal to the brains, SHE ( 855 ) SHE stick them in the dish alternately to leave room to put the brains in the spaces ; mask them with the sauce of matelotes, mushrooms, and small onions, &c. This matelote is the same sauce as the financiere, only reduce a little madeira wine in a small stewpan, and put to it a mushroom, a smaU glazed onion, a small quenelle, &c., and put the ragoilt into the middle, and the sauce over the brains. — Udc. Sheep's Brains, Roasted or Baked. — Four or six brains will be required for a dish. Prepare the brains as for stewing, and procure as many slices of bacon as there are brains. After they have been boiled and thrown into cold water, di-ain and dry them perfectly; brush over with oil, and roll them in highly- seasoned bread-crumbs✪ Sheep's Brains, Roasted or Baked. Put them on the bacon before the fire in a Dutch oven, or bake in a weU-heated oven, turning them about that they may be equally cooked, and basting them occa- sionally. When they are nicely browned, take them up. Lay the slices of bacon on toast, put the brains upon them, and send sharp sauce or tomato sauce to table in a tureen. Time to bake, thirty to forty minutes. Probable cost, 2s. Sufficient for six or seven persons. Sheep's Brains, Scalloped.— Soak the ✪ Sheep's Brains, Scalloped