Forcemeat Cakes

Ingredients

• 2 cups finely chopped meat
• I cup milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• i teaspoon pepper
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 e gg
• 2 cups stale bread crumbs
• I cup dried bread crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Put the milk and stale bread in a double boiler and cook for ten minutes.

2. 2

   Then remove from the fire and mash very fine with the back of a spoon.

3. 3

   Add the butter, meat and seasoning.

4. 4

   Shape the mixture into small flat cakes.

5. 5

   Beat an egg, add to it two tablespoons of cold water and in this egg the forcemeat cakes.

6. 6

   Then dip into dried bread crumbs.

7. 7

   Put the cakes in a frying basket and fry brown in deep lard.

8. 8

   Serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Left-overs made palatable (1902) by Isabel Gordon Curtis, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FORCEMEAT CAKES 2 cups finely chopped meat I cup milk 1 teaspoon salt i teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons butter 1 e gg 2 cups stale bread crumbs I cup dried bread crumbs

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