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The galley guide

1923

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Presented as published in 1923. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Cut meat in small pieces and trim off most of fat; cover with boiling water and let simmer slowly for 1 hr. Then add salt and pepper and the onions, carrots and turnips cut in small pieces. Cook 1 hr. more. Then peel and slice potatoes, add to stew and cook 20 min. more. Dilute flour with enough cold water to make a paste and stir it into the stew to thicken the gravy. Simmering is allowing liquid to come to a boil so that it bubbles around the edges but does not boil vigorously. 633 — Leg of Lamb Roast. If leg of lamb is received from the market wrapped in a white membrane like an outer tissue, remove it. Wipe the meat, sprinkle well with salt and pepper and place in roasting pan. Sprinkle all over with flour, allowing surplus flour to fall in pan. Place in hot oven. As soon as the flour in the pan is brown spoon the liquid in the pan over the meat. If not enough fat has melted from the meat to form a liquid with the flour add enough boiling water to the pan so that it can be spooned. This must be RECIPES 67 done every 1 5 min. until the meat is done which will take about 1 24 hr. To make brown gravy remove fat from pan to leave about 4 tablespoons after roast has been taken out. Leave oven door open or place pan over low flame ; add 4 tablespoons flour to the fat and stir until well browned; add 1^4 cups boiling water, cook 5 min., stirring, season with salt and pepper to tasteBrown Gravy and pour through strainer before serving. Roast potatoes should be served with roast lamb as they are cooked at the same time. (Recipe No. 935.) 634 — Forequarter of Lamb. The meat of the forequarter is tougher than the hind quarter and therefore to make it equally tender when served, should be boiled for ^4 hr. Do not season until after it is boiled. Then prepare for roasting and roast as directed for Leg of Lamb Roast (hind quarter) in Recipe No. 633. 635 — Saddle of Lamb (or Mutton). This cut should be purchased dressed for cooking at the market. Wipe the meat, season, sprinkle with flour and roast all as directed in Recipe No. 633. It will require il/\. hr. in a hot oven to be tender. Carve in slices parallel to the backbone. 637 — Leg of Mutton. Wipe meat, cover with boiling water in a kettle and allow to boil vigorously for 5 min. Skim the fat off the surface of the water and set over slow fire so that the water will simmer during remainder 68 THE GALLEY GUIDE of cooking. Cook for 2 or 3 hrs. or until meat be¬ gins to separate from bone, adding 1 tablespoon salt after 1 hr. of cooking. 638 — Saddle of Mutton. See Recipe No. 635. 639 — Pork Roast. The cheapest and best cut of pork for roasting is a shoulder weighing about 6 lbs. from which the bone has been removed at the market. If this cut is used the space occupied by the bone should be stuffed wth a stuffing made as follows : Cover pieces of dry bread with boiling water; as soon as the bread has absorbed the water press out the water and season with salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons melted butter and 1 onion finely choppedStuffing for Meat ; mix well. The other cuts for roasting are the loin and hind leg (called fresh ham). These do not require stuffing.