Saddle of Venison

Ingredients

• Saddle of venison
• half a gallon of water
• one table-spoonful of butter
• two table-spoonfuls of flour
• one jelly-glass of acid jelly
• one jelly-glass of wine

Method

1. 1

   Parboil the venison in salt and water for fifteen minutes.

2. 2

   Place it in a baking-pan, underside up; dredge with flour, salt, and pepper; add water and cook for two hours, basting continually.

3. 3

   Make incisions on the top and sides, fill with a dressing of bread crumbs, salt, pepper, and butter.

4. 4

   Rub the meat with butter, return to the stove, add butter to the gravy, and cook for one hour longer.

5. 5

   Serve hot with gravy made from flour, jelly, and wine.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SADDLE OF VENISON. Parboil the venison, if not very young and tender, in salt and water for fifteen minutes, to take away the strong taste. Place it in a baking-pan, underside up ; dredge it over with flour, and salt and pepper ; put half a gallon of water in the pan ; cook for two hours, basting continually, and have it a nice brown. Take it out of the stove, turn it over, and with a sharp knife make incisions an inch long and deep all over the top and sides. Make a dressing of bread crumbs, salt, pepper, and one table-spoonful of butter, and mix well; take a slice of fat middling, five or six inches long and two or three broad, and one bunch of parsley; chop them very fine, and add to the bread crumbs; and fill each incision with the dressing. Rub the meat all over well with butter ; put it back in the stove, adding a fourth of a pound of but- ter to the gravy ; baste very often, and cook one hour longer, or until it is a rich brown. Place it on a heated dish, and set it where it will keep warm. Add to the gravy two table-spoonfuls of flour, one jelly-glass of acid jelly, and one jelly-glass of wine

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