Calf's Brains with Eggs
From Chafing dish and casserole cookery, 1908
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This recipe was extracted from Chafing dish and casserole cookery (1908) by Charles Herman Senn, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
season with salt, pepper, and a grate of nut- meg. Moisten further with a little white stock, cover the dish and let it simmer gently for about 25 minutes. Stir the ragout occasionally. Serve hot. Ubicken ©melet. [Omelette de Volatile.) Cut some cold boiled or roast chicken, free from bone, skin, and gristle, into small dice, 26 Chafing Dish Cookery season to taste, and heat up in a little white sauce. Beat up six eggs with one table-spoonful of milk, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Melt three-quarters of an ounce of butter in a chafing dish, pour in the egg mixture, and stir over a quick fire till the eggs begin to set, then put the chicken mixture in the centre. Fold in the sides and shape neatly (oval cushion shape), allow the omelet to take colour, and serve. /iDutton Cutlets a la /llMuute. Mutton or lamb cutlets, cut rather thinly, well flattened, and trimmed neatly, can be cooked in the same manner as directed for Fillets of Beef (see page 23). These may be served with creamed peas, stewed tomatoes or other vegetable garnish. Steafcs ant> Cbops (Cooked in the Blazer). Small rump steak, fillets of beef, mutton chops or cutlets, may be cooked to advantage in the chafing dish. Prepare the meat, trim and cut off some of the fat, and season well with salt and pepper. Heat one ounce or more of butter in the blazer, and when quite hot put in the meat and fry it quickly on both sides. About ten minutes should be allowed to cook the meat, according to the size, turning frequently with tongs. When done, dish up and serve hot with a little maitre d’hotel butter or gravy if preferred. flbattre b’tbotel Butter. Mix half to one ounce of butter with a little finely chopped parsley, a squeeze of lemon juice, salt and cayenne. Make into a flat shape and place in a cool place to become firm. Serve as required. Crlpe wltb Cream Sauce. [Tripe a la Creme.) Wash half a pound of honeycomb tripe, wipe it dry, and cut into very fine shreds. Put half an ounce of butter into the chafing dish, and fry in it Chafing Dish Cookery 27 a peeled and chopped shallot ; then put in the tripe, season with salt and pepper, and besprinkle with a dessert-spoonful of flour. Cook whilst stirring for about six minutes, then moisten with a gill of hot milk and two or three table-spoon- fuls of cream. Allow to simmer, stirring often for half an hour longer. More milk or stock may be added if found necessary. A little grated nutmeg is considered an improvement by many. Serve hot with crotitons of fried bread or puff paste crusts (fleurons). Eroileb Calf’s silver. ( Foie de Veau frit.) Wipe a piece of calf’s liver weighing about half a pound, and cut it into slices. Dip each slice into seasoned flour. Fry a few thin slices of bacon in the blazer of a chafing dish, take up the bacon, and add to the fat remaining in the blazer half an ounce of butter, when hot put in the slices of liver, and broil them over a full flame for several minutes, turn the slices occasionally so as to brown them nicely. Pour in a little gravy or stock mixed with a teaspoonful of “ Lemco,” place the fried bacon on top, and cook for five minutes longer. Serve hot. Cosse& Calf’s Sliver. {Foie de Veau sautt.) Cut half a pound of fresh calf’s liver into very thin slices, and proceed to cook it in the same manner as described for “ Kidneys a la Minute,” on page 28. Calf’s JBraiits witb Eggs. ( Cervelles de Veau aux (Eufs.) Soak in salted water half a calf’s brain, wash it well and remove the veins, then blanch it, drain, and chop it into small pieces. Melt an ounce of butter in a chafing dish, when hot put in four well-beaten eggs, and the chopped brain. Season with salt, pepper (paprika or white pepper). Stir in a table-spoonful of cream
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