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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
(for geese, pork, and ducks). — Put four apples, four onions, four sage leaves, and four lemon- thyme leaves into a saucepan with as much water as will cover them. Let them sim- mer till tender, then pour off the water and rub them through a sieve. Season the pulp with pepper and salt, mix with it as much mashed potato as will make it dry and smooth✪ Sage, Onion, and Apple Stuffing for Geese, Pork, and Ducks, and the stuffing will be ready for use. If liked, a spoonful of boiled rice may be mixed with the sage and onions instead of the pota- toes. Shrimp, Force-meat of. — Clear a pint of shrimps from their shells and chop them finely. Mix with an equal quantity of bread-crumbs. Sea- son with salt, pepper, and a small quantity of mace. Pound into a smooth paste, with 2 or 3 ozs. of butter. Bind with the yolk of an egg✪ Shrimp Force-meat. Use this force - meat to stuff any fresh- water fish. Suet Force-meat Balls. — Chop % lb. of beef suet, a little lemon-peel, and parsley. Mix with a basin of bread- crumbs, and flavor with pepper, salt, and nutmeg. Moisten with the yolks of two eggs✪ Suet Force-meat Balls, roll in flour, and make up into small balls. Bake in a hot oven till crisp. This recipe will do for fowls. The addition of a little 151 Turkey Force-meat FORCE-MEATS, ETC. Veal Force-meat ham, chopped or pounded, will be an improvement. Turkey, Roast, Force-meat for. — Take of lean veal, or the flesh of an old fowl, 2 ozs. ; free it from skin and sinew. Pound it in a mortar, with 2 ozs. of shred suet, the same of bread- crumbs, a dessert-spoonful of minced parsley, a large teaspoonful of lemon- thyme, an onion, and the grated rind of half a lemon. Flavor delicately with pepper and salt, and pound and bind together with two beaten eggs✪ Turkey Force-meat. A richer and better force - meat is made by the addition of ham, tongue, anchovy, or a dozen minced oysters. Pork sausage-meat is sometimes used to stuff the crop. Turtle Soup, Force-meat for. — A pound of fine, fresh suet, i lb. of ready-dressed veal or chicken, chopped fine, crumbs of bread, a little shallot or onion, salt, white pepper, nutmeg, mace, pennyroyal, parsley, and lemon- thyme, finely shred ; beat as many eggs✪ Turtle Soup Force-meat, the yolks and whites separately, as will make the above ingredients into a moist paste ; roll into small balls and boil them in fresh lard, putting them in just as it boils up. When of a light brown, take them out and drain them before the fire. If the suet be moist or stale, a great many more eggs will be necessary. Balls made this way are remark- ably light ; but for persons who cannot digest rich food they may be prepared with less suet and eggs. Udder Force-meat. — In France calf’s udder is used instead of butter. It is first boiled, then pounded and pressed through a fine sieve. Veal Curry, Force meat Balls for. — Boil an egg hard, pound the yolk in a mortar, mix with it some finely grated bread-crumbs, a pinch of salt, and a seasoning of curry powder or paste. Rub a small slice of fresh butter✪ Veal Curry Force-meat Balls into the mixture, form it into balls the size of small marbles, throw them into fast - boiling water for a couple of minutes, and they will be ready for use.