Plain Veal Cutlets

Ingredients

• from two to three pounds of veal cutlets
• a pint of water
• sprinkled with pepper, salt, and flour
• a slice of fresh butter
• a cup of gravy or of boiling water
• a dessertspoonful of flour
• a little lemon-pickle or juice

Method

1. 1

   Trim and beat the veal cutlets, flour them, and fry for 12 to 15 minutes until amber brown.

2. 2

   Prepare a sauce with butter, flour, and gravy, and pour over the cutlets.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 215. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

nkled them with pepper, salt, and flour, from two to three pounds of veal cutlets. If taken from the neck or loin, chop the bones very short, and trim away the greater portion of the fat. Arrange them as flat as they can he in a saucepan ; give a pint of water a boil in the pan in which they have been browned, and pour it on them ; add a small faggot of parsley, and, should the flavour be liked, one of green onions also. Let the meat simmer softly for half an hour ; then cover it with small new potatoes which have had a single boil in water, give the saucepan a shake, and let the harrico stew very gently for another half hour, or until the potatoes are quite done, and the veal is tender. When the cutlets are thick and the potatoes approaching their full size, more time will be required for the meat, and the vegetables may be at once divided : if extremely CHAP. XI ] YEAL. 225 young they will need the previous boil. Before the harrico is served, skim the fat from it, and add salt and pepper should it not be sufficiently seasoned. A few bits of lean ham, or shoulder of bacon browned with the veal, will much improve this dish, and for some tastes, a little acid will render it more agreeable. Very delicate pork chops may be dressed in the same way. A cutlet taken from the fillet and freed from fat and skin, answers best for this dish. Additional vegetables, cooked apart, can be added to it after it is dished. Peas boiled very green and well drained, or young carrots sliced and stewed tender in butter, are both well suited to it. Yeal, 2 to 3 lbs.; water (or gravy), 1 pint; new potatoes 1£ to 2 lbs. ; faggot, parsley, and green onions : 1 hour or more. PLAIN VEAL CUTLETS. Take them if possible free from bone, and after having trimmed them into proper shape, beat them with a cutlet-bat or paste-roller until the fibre of the meat is thoroughly broken ; flour them well to prevent the escape of the gravy, and fry them from twelve to fifteen minutes over a fire which is not sufficiently fierce to burn them before they are quite cooked through : they should be of a fine amber brown, and perfectly done. Lift them into a hot dish, pour the fat from the pan, throw in a slice of fresh butter, and when it is melted, stir or dredge in a dessertspoonful of flour ; keep these shaken until they are well-coloured, then pour gradually to them a cup of gravy or of boiling water ; add pepper, salt, a little lemon-pickle or juice

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