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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.
di-aw, singe, and wash the fowl inside and out- side, then wipe it. Cut off the neck even with the back, but leave enough skiii to roU back neatly. Take off the feet, and insert the legs in a sHt of the skin made in the sides. Pass a skewer through the leg and the bottom of the M-ing (the other part of the wing should be twisted over the back) through the body ; do the same on both sides. Poll and skewer the skin of the neck, and put the rump through a slit made in the ajDron. Secure with string across the tops of the legs, and make all firm before boiling. White-legged' fowls are best in point of colour for boiling. Fowl, To Truss (Roast).— Pluck, draw, singe, but do not wash the fowl. Wipe it with a couiDle of clean cloths, and use white paper when singeing it. Cut off the head and neck, and fold the skin oA-er the back. Scald and scrape the legs, cutting off the claws, and fasten the pinions and logs -with a skewer long enough tc -iecure the other pinion and leg. Put the liver in one wing and the gizzard in the other, and skewer the fowl fii-mly before it is put to the spit. A trussing-needle threaded with twine should be used for this purpose; bring it through the backbone, and secui-e the string on the other side. Fowl, Veal, or Rabbit Curry.— Cut a fowl or rabbit into neat pieces, and some veal into slices, dredge them with flour, and cover row ( 228 ) FRA •with curry-powder; fry till bro-w-n in butter. Sprinkle finely-shred onion during the frj'ing, and when the meat is half done, and of a pale brown, pour in some white stock, and finish the cooking; add a little lemon -juice, and serve hot. Fowl, White Oyster Sauce for.— Strain the liquor from a pint of oj-sters that have been scalded, but not boiled. Put into a atewpan the strained liquor, a quarter of a pound of butter, blended with flour, a little lemon-rind, a blade of mace pounded, and very little cayenne. Stir in three or four table-spoonfuls of cream, and continue to stir till the sauce is thick ; then pour it over the scalded oysters, which should pre-\'iously have been washed and bearded, and put into a clean saucepan. Squeeze in the juice of a lemon, move the sauce round for a minute or two, then serve in a tureen. Time, a quarter of an hour to prepare. Probable cost, Is. 9d. to is. per dozen. Sufficient for a Ixirge tureen. Fowl with Ham, Potted.— Chop to- gether six ounces of cooked ham and the meat of a hot roast chicken ; pound these in a mortar, with four ounces of butter. Boil down the bones of the chicken with the skin and the gravy from the roasting, season with salt, pep- per, mace, and cayenne ; reduce the mixture to a glaze, and add it to the pounded meat. Press the fowl and ham into shallow earthen pots, cover \vith clarified butter, and store in a cool place. - Fowl, with Macaroni.— Cut up a fowl Fowl with Macaroni