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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.
part of one. Put the bones and trimmings into a stewpan, with water to cover them ; add a caiiot or two, some sliced onion, pre^dously fried in butter, a blade of pounded mace, some savouiy herbs, pepper, and saltT'^When the goodness is j extracted, strain and thicken with a small quan- I tity of flour and butter. Put the fowl into a j clean stewpan, pour the gravy over, and sim- j mcr for half an hour. A few minutes before ' serving add the juice of haK a lemon. Gamish j with sijipets of toasted breaFowl, Hashedd. Time to stew ! bones, &c., for gravy, one hour and a half; to I wann fowl, twenty minutes. Probable cost, exclusive of fowl, 6d. Fowl, Indian Dish of.— Put over the fire in a large ste^\7Jan two quails of good veal 1)r(jth, in which place a fowl, trussed as for boiling ; add the following spices (pounded), tied in a muslin bag : of cloves, allspice, mace, and peppercorns, each a quarter of an ounce, and of coriander seed and cinnamon, half an ounce, with foriy cardamom seeds. Bro^^■n slightly in a frj-ing-pan with two ounces (jf j butter, a pound of weU-washed lice (Patna) ; and when the fowl is nearly done, add the rice, and stew imtil soft. Cut two or three middle- I sized onions into slices, dredge with flour, and I fry a nice brown colour, without breaking the j rings. Have ready six slices of bacon cm-led ami giilled, and a couple of eggs, boiled hard I and quartered. AiTange the fowl in a ppa- I midal form upon a dish, smother with the rice, i and garnish with the sliced onion, bacon, and POW ( 224 ) POW egffs. Time, half an hour to stow fowl ; half an hour to stew fowl and rice. Probable cost, 5s. Sufficient for four or five persons. Fowl jelly (in cakes). — Take ten pounds of the leg of beef, two cow-heels, a knuckle of veal, ;i couple of old fowls, and the trimmings of any thing at hand, with the bones, ice, broken in pieces ; cover with water, and boil gently, adding a bunch of sweet herbs, a blade of mace, an onion, a bit of lemon-peel, and some whole peppers, and salt to taste. Boil six hours ; clear olf the fat, strain, and let the mixture cool, when overj' particle of grease must be removed. When cold, put it over a quick fire, and boil till the jelly clings to the wooden spoon, when it may be poured out into a buttered tin. When quite cold, cut it into strips, and store carefully in a tin box, to be dissolved for gravy or soups. Fowl Klosse. — Chop three or four ounces of suet, also the solid parts of an uncooked fowl ; soak three large slices of light bread in milk, and press the moisture from it till quite di-y. Put the whole into a mortar ; season with aait, nutmeg, chopped parsley, and lemon-peel. Pound all together to a smooth paste, with two well-beaten eggs. ^\nien shaped into Klosse, boil in clear soup. These Klosse may be made of veal, instead of fowl. Fowl Liver, Garnish. —Take the livers from four fowls ; let them be quite sound, and of a good colour. Blanch them in boiling water, and then stew in gravy ; add a bunch of thj-me, parsley, popper, and stilt, half a tea-spoonful of each, with a small glass of white wine, ^^^len they have stewed a quarter of an hour, dry and use as a garnish. Time to blanch, ten minutes. Fowl, Indian Dish of