Curry

Ingredients

• 1 lb. beef, mutton, or pork
• 3 oz. curry
• 1 small apple
• 1 onion
• 3 oz. flour
• 1 oz. dripping or butter
• ½ pint hot water

Method

1. 1

   Cut meat into small squares, core, pare, and chop apple finely, skin, scald, dry, and chop onion.

2. 2

   Heat dripping in a stew-pan, stir in meat, apple, and onion until golden.

3. 3

   Sprinkle curry and flour, mix well.

4. 4

   Draw pan aside, stir in water gradually, simmer for about an hour until meat is tender.

5. 5

   Stir frequently to prevent sticking.

6. 6

   Serve with boiled rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school cookery book (1881), page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pint hot water ; % teaspoonful browning ; Va teaspoontul salt ; i pinch PePPer- Wipe the rabbit carefully with a damp cloth ; divide it with a sharp knife into neat pieces. Toss them with half of the flour in a sheet of kitchen paper , brown them with the dripping in a stew-pan 3 sprinkle over them the remainder of the flour 3 toss the pieces in the pan till all the dry flour has disappeared. Draw the pan to one side of the fire 3 add the hot water, browning, salt and pepper. Stew gently for one and a half to two hours. Place the bacon m a cold frying pan ; put it on the fire 3 as soon as it is hot turn the bacon once or twice ; it takes about five minutes to cook and curls when it is ready. When ready place the rabbit in the centre of a dish, pour the sauce over and arrange the fried bacon round it. Spanish Stew. — Required: large or i small rabbit 3 % lb. bacon ; i large or two small onions 3 x pinch salt ; i pinch of pepper. Wipe the rabbit carefully with a damp cloth 3 divide it with a sharp knife into small neat pieces. Skin, scald, and slice the onions. Place a layer of onions in the bottom of an earthenware jar, with the pepper and salt ; then a layer of rabbit 3 after this layers of onions and rabbit until all is in. Place the slices of bacon on the top ; cover the jar tightly with a well- greased paper. Cook in a moderate oven or in a saucepan of boiling water for two hours. It may also be cooked on the hob, but would require nearly three hours. Curry. — Required : lb. beef, mutton, or pork 3 oz. curry 3 1 small apple 3 1 onion 3 oz. flour 3 1 oz. dripping or butter

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