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The thorough good cook

1895

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Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
In two and a half quarts of water put half a pound of scrag of mutton, half a jiound of gravy beef, half a pound of a shank of veal, and half a slice of ham, all cut small ; one turnip, one carrot, an onion and a half chopped, a little mace, salt, and popper; stew these ingredients for one and a half or two hours, and strain the soup. The next day cut a hare into small pieces, season them with pepper, salt, a quarter of a grated nutmeg, and half the peel of a small lemon. Place them in a stone jar, and fill it up with the prepared soup ; put a bung in the jar, tie a bladder and a bit of linen over, and set it in a pot of hot water ; a,s the water wastes, till up with more boiling water, and let boil for an hour and a half. When cold, take off the fat, and pick out the lemon-peel. This quantity will make one tureen full. When to be used it is thickened with a tablespoonful of flour, kneaded Avith a small bit of butter, and a quarter of a pint of port wine. It will keep perfectly -Sfood for a fortnitrht. 18. Hare Pate, en Terrine. Bone a hare : take one pound of fillet of veal, one pound •of fresh lean pork, a little beef fat, parsley, chives, thyme, a T 290 THE TIIOIiOUGH GOOD COOK. bay-leaf, garlic, pepper, and cloves ; chop tlieiii all up A^cry line ; line a small, wide-mouthed dish (the lid of which shuts closely) with slices of bacon that entirely cover it : put in the hare, etc., mixed with half a pound of bacon cut up into pieces ; pour over it a glass of brandy ; cover it with slices of bacon, and close up the lid carefully with paste. Let it bake four hours. 19. Hare Pie. AVith a pound of flour, half a pound of butter, salt, and Avater, prepare some short paste, and lay it aside for an hour. Skin a tender hare, draw it, slip off the shoulders and legs from the body, and bono them. Pare the meat, and cut it in squares, chop it with its Aveight of fat fresh bacon and six ounces of raAv ham ; Avhen the Avhole is avoU chop]:)ed, pound, season, and add to it a few tablespoonfids of cooked tine herbs, mushrooms, parsley, and onion. Lard the loins, cut them up in pieces, put them into a stCAv-pan Avith melted bacon and half cook them ; remove the meat from tlie bones, and put them by. With all the bones and the neck of the hare, a fcAv trimmings of ham, vegetables, aromatics, and a little Avine, prepare some good gravy ; Avhcn it is 25'^«sed and skinuned of fat, reduce it to a half-glaze Avith a few tablespoonfuls of Madeira, and thicken it Avith a little sauce ; then keep it in the metal-bath. Mask the bottom of a large pie-dish Avith a layer of prepared raw mince, Avhereon place a layer of good sauer-kraut, cooked Avitli six ounces of streaky bacon and cooled ; cut up the bacon in squares, Avhich mix Avith the pieces of hare and a fcAv raAv black truffles cut up in slices ; place the meat in a dome-like shape on the sauer-kraut, mask it Avith the remainder of the mince ; noAv moisten the rim of the ENTREMETS. 201 dish, lay on a strip of paste, moisten the paste, and cover the pie Avith a large thin flat of short crust. Bake it for an hour and a quarter in a moderate oven. When the pie is taken out of the oven, pour in through a hole which should be left in the top the prepared sauce, and dish up. 20. Boned Hare. Hare Pate, en Terrine