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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.
Meat Pie (a la Don Pedro).— This is a kind of ragout put into a tin made expressly for the dish. Take some mutton-chops, either from the loin or neck, trim them neatly and toss them, with some chopped parsley, butterMeat Patties, pepper, salt, &c., in a stewpan over a slow fire. Place the chops, with some good bro'svn gravy, into the tin baking-dish — " the Don Pedro tin" — and add slices of raw ham. Cover with the lid, but first fill in with mashed potatoes to the brim ; bake for two hours in a slow oven, when the tin cover»may be taken off, and the chops will be found tender and succulent. Probable cost of chops, Is. per pound. Meat Pies, Forcemeat for (-tre Force- meat for Meat Pies). Meat Pies, Pastry for («r Pastry, French, for Meat Pies, &c.) . Meat Porcupine. — Press into a plain oval mould the following: — A haK pound of pork, and one pound of rump-steak (chopped finely), one clove of garhc (shi'cd), a tea-spoonful of salt, pepper, and nutmeg — the whole moistened and well beaten up with two eggsMeat Porcupine. Turn the mi.xture out of the mould, and stick pieces of fat bacon all over it, to resemble a porcupine. Stew it for an hour in hot butter, first browning all over. Probable cost, 3s. 6d. MEAT POECUPINK. Sufficient as a supper dish for four or five persons. Meat Preserving. — Meat taints soon, and few know how to render it, when tainted, fit for use. Some rub the joint over with pyro- ligneous acid, which effectually prevents it turning bad, but imparts a very disagreeable flavour. To preserve meat, thoroughly examine it when it comes from the butcher's, care- fully remove flyblows, if there be any, wipe with a perfectly dry doth all the flaps and crevices, so as to leave no damp, which soon imparts a disagreeable taint to meat, cut out all the kernels and perceptible veins, wrap a piece of muslin lightly round the joint, sew it up, and hang it, if possible, in a cuiTent of air in a cool place. Meat, Quality of. — This is influenced by several circumstances, each of which produces a peculiar difference in the flesh of the same species of animal. The principal circumstances alluded to are the breed, the sex, the age, the nature of the pasturage or fooipl on which the animal has been fed, its state of health, the treatment immediately previous to its being slaughtered, and the mode in which it lias been deprived of life and in which the carcass is di'essed. Meat Rissoles, English. — Prepare meat — beef, mutton, veal, poultry, or game — as before directed for Meat Croquettes. The rissoles may be made up in the form of cones — egged, bread-crumbed, fried without paste, and served with a gravj*. If prefen-ed with paste, cut out double the number of rounds that are requu-ed of rissoles; on one round l^lace the mince, egg the edge, and covci- with a corresponding round. Fry, first brushing them with egg, of a nice bro^vn ; use butter, and drain the rissoles before seiwing. Send to table on a napkin, garnished with parsley. Time, five or six minutes to fry. Probable cost, 6d., exclusive of meat. Meat Rissoles, German. — Fry two