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Grilled Kidneys

From Common-sense papers on cookery, 1880

Kidneys should be cooked so that some red gravy runs out.

Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Common-sense papers on cookery (1880) by A. G. Payne, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A good-sized kidney is best cooked split open on the gridiron, and as soon as it is done, placed on its round sides, and a little piece of butter put on each half, on to which a pinch of chopped parsley is dropped. Sometimes kidneys are sent up skewered on a little silver arrow. A little pepper

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