Croustades

Ingredients

• Half-pound cooked meat
• Two ounces bread crumbs
• Half a small onion
• Half gill stock or meat gravy

Method

1. 1

   Make the meat mixture, and keep it hot.

2. 2

   Cut from a stale loaf rounds of bread, about two inches in depth and one and a half inches in diameter.

3. 3

   Soak the rounds of bread for a few minutes in milk to soften them, then coat the rounds with beaten egg and bread crumbs.

4. 4

   Stamp the cases half through with a small cutter, and fry them.

5. 5

   Drain well.

6. 6

   Remove the small round lids, and scoop out the soft part from the inside of the croustades, and fill up with the mixture.

7. 7

   Place lids on top.

8. 8

   Dish on dish-paper, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Croustades. Mixture as for Croquettes. | Bread cases. Make the meat mixture, and keep it hot. Cut from a stale loaf rounds of bread, about two inches in depth and one and a half inches in diameter. Soak the rounds of bread for a few minutes in milk to soften them, then coat the rounds with beaten egg and bread crumbs. Stamp the cases half through with a small cutter, and fry them. Drain well. Remove the small round lids, and scoop out the soft part from the inside of the croustades, and fill up with the mix- ture. Place lids on top. Dish on dish-paper, and serve hot. Half-pound cooked meat. Two ounces bread crumbs. Half a small onion. Half-gill stock or meat gravy

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