Forcemeat Balls

Ingredients

• Three ounces of ham
• three ounces of suet
• five ounces of bread crumb
• one teaspoonful of lemon-juice
• one teaspoonful of chopped parsley
• one half teaspoonful of salt
• one salt-spoonful of pepper
• two eggs
• one grain of cayenne

Method

1. 1

   Chop the ham and suet finely, mix with salt, pepper, cayenne, and eggs.

2. 2

   Rub the bread crumb through a sieve into the mixture, stir to a consistency, and add lemon juice.

3. 3

   Roll into small balls and fry in clarified fat for seven minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FORCEMEAT BALLS. 65 and "Worcester sauce, also the chopped giblets, and boil slowly five minutes. When the turkey is cooked take it from the fire, place it on a very hot dish, remove the twine, and send the sauce to table in a small tureen. NOTE. — Directions for trussing, see page 48. Good beef dripping is best to baste the turkey with. Browned Calfs Head. — One calfs head, one table- spoonful chopped parsley, one half dessert-spoonful lemon- thyme, two table-spoonfuls bread crumb, one quarter pound bacon, one lemon, the yolk of one egg. Soak the calf a head in sufficient cold water to cover it for two hours. Wash it well, place it in a large sauce-pan, cover it well with cold water. Place the pan over a very hot fire, and when the water boils skim it well. Allow the water then to boil very gently for one hour and a half. Take the head from the water, dry it well with a clean towel, place it on a flat dish, and score it with a sharp knife. Dip an egg-brush in the yolk of egg and brush the head well over, sprinkle over the thyme and parsley, also the bread crumb. Place the dish in a brisk oven and bake the head for twenty minutes. While it is baking, cut the bacon in very thin slices, roll each slice up and put it on a small baking-tin. Place the tin in the oven and bake the bacon for ten minutes. When the head is nicely browned, arrange round it alternately the rolls of bacon and pieces of the lemon thinly sliced. Forcemeat Balls.— Three ounces of ham, three ounces of suet, five ounces of bread crumb, one tea -spoonful of lemon- juice, one tea-spoonful of chopped p'arsley, one half tea-spoonful of salt, one salt-spoonful of pepper, two eggs, one grain of cayenne

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