Mutton Croquettes

Ingredients

• One pint of chopped meat
• One cupful of milk or cream
• Two eggs
• One table-spoonful of lemon juice
• One-half of a table-spoonful of salt
• Two table-spoonfuls of butter
• Two table-spoonfuls of flour
• One-half of a tea-spoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Chop meat finely, add salt, lemon juice, and pepper.

2. 2

   In a frying pan, heat milk, stir butter and flour to a cream, then add to boiling milk.

3. 3

   Cook for one minute, add meat, boil for three minutes.

4. 4

   Beat eggs, add to mixture, cool, shape into croquettes, roll in crumbs, dip in egg, then crumbs again, and fry until brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MUTTON CROQUETTES (an Entree). One pint of chopped meat. One cupful of milk or cream. Two eggs. One table-spoonful of lemon juice. One-half of a table-spoonful of salt. Two table-spoonfuls of butter. Two table-spoonfuls of flour. One-half of a tea-spoonful of pepper

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