Cow-heel (au naturel)

Ingredients

• a cow-heel
• a piece of butter
• a tablespoonful of scalded and chopped parsley
• the juice of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Clean and scald the cow-heel, cut into parts, and simmer in cold water for 4 hours.

2. 2

   Remove bones, thicken gravy with butter and flour, add parsley and lemon juice, season, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 411. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cow-heel (au naturel). — This dish, wliich is delicious as well as nourishing when properly cooked, may be served in several different ways. It should first of all be thoroughly scalded and •cleansed, and the fat between the claws removed. This is often ah-eady done when the heel is bought at a tripo shop. (Ask for one which has been scalded, not boiled, or nearly all the nourishment will be gone from it.) Cut a cow- heel into four parts, and put them into a sauce- pan, cover them with cold water, and simmer them gently for four hours; take them up, remove the bones, thicken the gravy with a piece of butter rolled in flour, and put with it a tablo- spoonful of scalded and chopped pai-sley, and the juice of half a lemon. Season -wiili salt and pepper, boil altogether again for a few minutes, and serve hot. If there is more liquid than will be required for sauce, it should be preserved, and will be found excellent for sauces and soups. Probable cost of cow-heel, id. to 8d. each. Sufficient, one heel for a small family. Cow-heel for Invalids.— Take a frosh icow-heel, cleanse and scald it, and remove the i"at from between the claws. Do not have one already boiled at the tripo shop, as was j said iu the last recipe, or it will not be so j nourishing. Put it into a saucepan with j one pint and a half of cold water, and add a. ! salt-spoonful of salt, a salt-spoonful of fresh. I mustard, a salt-spoonful of sifted sugar, and a 1 pinch of pepper. Bring it slowly to a boil, skim it well, and simmer it gently for four hoiu's. Just before serving, thicken the gravy with a tea-spoonful of arrowroot mixed smoothly with a little cold water; add a wine-glassful of shen-y, and serve immediately. Probable cost, 4d to 8d. each. Sufficient i'or two or tlu-ee persons. Cow-heel, Fried.— Prej^are a cow-heel

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.