Gravy, Kidney
From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892
Serves 5
Probable cost is 8d. Sufficient for four or five persons.
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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 644. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Gravy, Kidney. — Take half a beef kid- ney, or three sheeps' kidneys. Cut them into slices, flour them, and strew over them a table- spoonful of powdered herbs, of which two parts should be parsley, and one thyme. Put them into a saucepan Avith a piece of butter, the size of a large egg, and a small onion finely minced, and shake them over the fire until the gravy is almost dried up; then add a pint of boiling water, and simmer very gently for an hour and a half, or more, until the gravy is done to perfection. Then skim and strain. Add salt and cayenne, and any flavouring that may be preferred. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for four or five persons. Gravy made without Meat, for Fowls.- — Take the feet, necks, livers, and gizzards of the fowls, wash them thoroughly, cut them into small pieces, and put them into a saucepan, with a bunch of savoury herbs, a small onion, haK a slice of bread, toasted brown and hard, but not burnt, a salt-spoonful of salt, half a salt-spoonful of pepper, and a pint and a half of water. Simmer very gently for an hour, or more. Pour the fat from the pan which has been under the fowl, strain the gravy to it, stir it well, strain it again into the saucepan ; add a table-spoonful of mushroom ketchup, if this is liked, and serve as hot as possible. Probable cost, 2d. Sufficient for a couj^le of fowls. Gravy Maigre for Fish (sometimes called Root Gravy) . — Cut half a clove of garlic, an onion, a cari-ot, and a turnip inta small pieces, and fry them to a glaze in a piece of butter the size of a large egg
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