Bobotee

Ingredients

• two pounds of mixed meat
• a large slice of bread
• a tablespoonful of dripping
• two tablespoonfuls of curry powder
• a dessert-spoonful of sugar
• the juice of a lemon
• six or eight almonds
• one egg
• some milk
• a buttered pie-dish
• a lemon or bay leaf

Method

1. 1

   Mix meat with soaked bread, fried onions, curry powder, sugar, lemon juice, and almonds.

2. 2

   Pour one egg into the mixture.

3. 3

   Whisk another egg with milk and pour over the mixture in a buttered dish.

4. 4

   Bake and serve with rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from National viands à la mode (1895) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bobotee Take two pounds of mixed meat, a large slice of bread soaked in milk and squeezed out dry. Fry two onions in a tablespoonful of dripping and mix with two tablespoonfuls of curry powder, a dessert- spoonful of sugar, the juice of a lemon, and six or eight almonds. Mix this with the meat and soaked bread. Pour one egg into the mixture and whisk the other with some milk and pour it over the whole, after being put into a buttered pie-dish or into little cups with a lemon or bay leaf

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