Imitation Hare Soup

Ingredients

• a bullock's heart
• three onions
• a blade of mace
• salt
• pepper
• a large slice of bread
• 3oz. or 4oz. of butter
• cover over with cold water
• 1 table-spoonful of sugar
• 1 wineglessful of port wine

Method

1. 1

   Clean the heart, removing fat and skin, split it, and remove blood.

2. 2

   Cut into slices, place in a jar with herbs, mace, salt, pepper, onions, bread, and butter rolled in flour.

3. 3

   Cover with cold water, seal, and cook in boiling water for 3-4 hours.

4. 4

   Pound bread and heart, moisten with beef-broth, strain liquor into a saucepan, add heart, and more broth as needed.

5. 5

   Boil, season, and add flour and butter for consistency.

6. 6

   Serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 71. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Imitation Hare Soup. Clean a bullock's heart (one freshly taken from the animal if possible), removing all the fat, pipes, and outside skin, split it in halves without separating, and remove all the blood. Cut it in slices, put them in a jar (with a close-fitting lid), add a bunch of sweet herbs, a blade of mace, salt and pepper, three onions (one of them stuck with cloves), a largo slice of bread, and 3oz. or 4oz. of butter rolled in flour ; cover over with cold water, put on the lid, hermetically seal it with paste, place it in a saucepan with boiling water up to the neck, and cook for three or four hours, keeping the water replenished. Take out the bread and the heart when tender, pound them in a mortar, moistening with beef-broth free from fat, and rub them through a sieve ; strain the liquor into a saucepan, add the heart, &c., and pour in as much more rich beef broth as is required for the soup. Boil up quickly, season with salt and cayenne to taste, add a liaison of flour and butter to bring it to the consistency of cream, stir in 1 table-spoonful of sugar and 1 wineglessful of port wine

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