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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.
Beef Sausages. — Clear the beef and suet from all skin, bone, and gristle; take two pounds of lean beef to one pound of suet, add salt, pepper, and mixed spice, and shalots, or any other tasty condimentBeef Sausages, according to liking, choj) veiy fine and mix well together. Some cooks prefer to pound the whole in a mortar, but if the meat is well minced this is needless. Roll the meat into sausages and fry until it becomes a nice broN\Ti coloiir, and serve in the usual way, with mashed potatoes round the dish. They are more delicate if pressed into skins. It is worth notice that all meat cooked with the skin retains its original flavour, and is much prefen-ed by connoisseurs. Time to fry, ten to twelve minutes. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Beef Sausages (Home Made).— Remove all the skin and giistle from two pounds of lean beef, and mince it very finely with one pound and a half of good fresh suet ; add, as a seasoning, one tea-spoonful of powdered sagp, the same of thj-me and allspice, with salt and pepper to tasteBeef Sausages (Home Made) ; fill thoroughly clean skins, and boil as directed for black puddings. Time, half an hour to boil. Probable cost for this quantity, about 3s. Sufficient for four or five persons. Beef, Shin of, Soup.— Take three or four pounds of shin of beef, cut the meat into two or three slices down to the bone, which should remain undivided and still enclosed in the flesh. Plug up each end of the bone with a stiff paste made of flour and water, to keep in the .marrow. Set it on the fire in a large pot of cold water, with six or eight peppercorns and three or foui- cloves. Remove the scum as it rises. Season slightly with salt ; othei-wise, by continued boiling and warming-up, the broth will be so reduced as to become too salt. Let it boil gently for four hours, then make it boil fast, and throw in a few peeled turnips, carrots, and onions, with a small bunch of thjTue and parsley. When the vegetables are tender, serve the soup with bits of toasted bread floating in it. When the soup has been served, take up the beef, remove the slices of meat from the bone, separate them, if needed, with a knife and fork, put them in the middle of a hot dish, and arrange the vegetables round them, t cutting the carrots and turnips into shapely bits. For sauce, fry chopped onions brown; stir in amongst them a dessert-spoonful of flour, diluted with a little of the soup, two dessert-spoonfuls of mushroom ketchupBeef, Shin of, Soup, pepper and salt, stir all together, and pour it over the slices of shin, and serve. For the marrow : toast a large round of bread, lay it on a hot plate, spread the marrow roughly on it, season with pepper, salt, and a little mustard, cut it into as man)' pieces as there are guests, and serve very hot.