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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.
Fowl, Braised, with Beef and Chestnuts. — Take a piece of the upper side of the round of beef, about one pound and a half, and rub it with a pickle made with the following ingredients : — Half a tea-spoonful of salt, and the same of pepper, a pinch of cayenne, a salt-spoonful of mustard, the same of grated nutmeg, a piece of garlic, about the size of a pea, half a gill of some good sauce, either Worcester or Harvey, a table-spoonful of oil, and the strained juice of a lemon. Lot the beef stay in and be basted with this pickle for twenty-four hours. Put a piece of butter in a stewpan, with the heart of a celery-root, a carrot, and two shallots. AVTien drained from the pickle. Lay in the beef, and place a fine fat fowl, trtissed for boiling, on it; cover the breast with butter, and six good-sizod slices of row ( 222 ) FOW Vacon, and add, lastly, three-quarters of a pint of water, and the sauce. Baste the fowl fre- ([uently ; throw into the gra\'y one dozen and a liaLf of peeled chestnuts, and "be careful not to stew too quickly. When it has simmered about two hours and a half take up the fowl, put the baconFowl, Braised, with Beef and Chestnuts round it, and pom- a rich white .sauce over it. Dish the beef separately, Avith the vegetables and gravy. Serve both dishes at once. Probable cost, 8s. 6d. Sufficient for six or seven persons. Fowl, Braised, with Tomatoes.— Put a stewpan over the fire, and when hot, rub a <dove of garlic over the bottom two or three times. Lay a fowl in the pan, prepared as if for boiling, the breast being covered with well-buttered paper. Use the- best part of a <iuarter of a pound of butter on the paper, and p(jur in a large breakfast -cupful of strong- white gravy. Bring the gravy to a boil, and then draw it aside to sinnner gently. Baste frequently with the gravy for thi-ee-quarters of an horn-, then add half a dozen tomatoes sliced, a shallot minced, salt, pepper, a grain of cayenne, the quai-ter of a salt-spoonful of powdered ginger, the same of nutmeg, and half a salt-spoonful of flour of mustard. Put the tomatoes in last, with the juice, strained, of a large lemon, and a wine-glassful of MarsalaFowl, Braised, with Tomatoes. Let it come to a boil, but continue to simmer slowly, and baste for an hour or more. Serve the fowl on a hot dish, with the sauce poured over. Time to simmer fowl in gravy, two hours. Sufficient for a dish. Fowl, Broiled.— This is a hasty and very excellent dish, suitable for the supper-table, to be had in perfection at Windsor, Cookham, &c. Take off the head of a young fowl, and when the bird is dead, ch-aw and plunge it into boiling water. Remove the skin and feathers together. Split it up the back, and lay the inside downwards on a gridiron over a clear fire. Tui-n frequently, and pepper lightly on all sides. When sufficiently done, put it on a hot dish, sprinkle salt, and rub well with butterFowl, Broiled. Serve with mushroom, tomato, or liver and lemon sauce. Time to broil, eighteen to twenty minutes. Sufficient for foiu- persons. Fowl, Broiled, with Mushroom Fowl, Broiled, with Mushroom Sauce