Salmi of Hare

Ingredients

• 2 oz. browned flour
• 1 quart water
• 1 roast hare with its gravy
• 2 oz. onions
• Carrots
• Turnips
• A little celery
• ½ Lemon peel and juice
• ½ teaspoonful Meat Extract
• A pinch of cayenne
• A little sugar
• Peppercorns
• 2 oz. mushrooms
• 1 gill red wine

Method

1. 1

   Roast the hare according to last recipe.

2. 2

   Remove the meat from the bones and cut it up into slices.

3. 3

   Chop up the bones quite small and boil for an hour with onions, carrots, turnips, celery, lemon peel and peppercorns in a quart of water, till the broth is reduced to 1 pint in quantity.

4. 4

   Brown the flour, mix it smoothly with a little cold water and boil it with this hare broth for 10 minutes.

5. 5

   Strain through a sieve, stir in half a teaspoonful of Meat Extract, and add it to the gravy in which the hare has been roasted.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from German cookery for the English kitchen (1906) by Ella Oswald, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salmi of Hare.) For 8 Persons. Time of Preparation : 2 hours. 2 oz. browned flour. I quart water, 1 roast hare with its gravy. 2 oz. onions. Carrots. i* Turnips. .1 A little celery. \ Lemon peel and juice. ^ teaspoonful Meat Extract. A pinch of cayenne. A little sugar. Peppercorns. 2 oz. mushrooms. A gill red wine. Roast the hare according to last recipe. Remove the meat from the bones and cut it up into slices. Chop up the bones quite small and boil for an hour with onions, carrots, turnips, celery, lemon peel and peppercorns in a quart of water, till the broth is reduced to I pint in quantity. Brown the flour, mix it smoothly with a little cold water and boil it with this hare broth for 10 minutes. Strain through a sieve, stir in half a teaspoonful of Meat Extract, and add it to the gravy in which the hare has been roasted. 72 Wild und GeflUgeL Chop up the mushrooms finely (if fresh ones are used^ warm them through in a little butter), and add them to the gravy, with the red wine, flavouring with cayenne, lemon juice and a little sugar. Bring to the boil. The meat of the front legs should then be pounded in a mortar and added to this sauce, which must not be allowed to boil any longer. Place in it the slices of hare and serve. Garnish the dish with little crescents of pastry, baked a delicate brown. Gebratene Rebhuhner. (Roast Partridges.) For 6 Persons. Time of PreparaHi^flff\\o\xxs. 2 young partridges. 6 oz. butter. \ pint stock. Salt. \ pint sour cream. A little flour. 4 oz. bacon. Pluck, draw and singe the birds, wash in cold water, dry with a cloth and rub over with salt. Tie thin slices of bacon round them and place in the baking tin, in which the butter has first been browned. Roast for about I to I hour, basting continually, and adding alternately the stock (for which may be substituted Liebig's Meat Extract dissolved in water), and cream. i When done, take out, strain the gravy and serve with ^ them. The birds may be carved in the kitchen, the pieces being arranged in the centre of the dish and round them a border of macaroni with tomato puree, or little potato dumplings, first boiled and then fried. (See recipe : Kartofielklosse, page 22.) Rebhuhn-Potrafka. (Partridge Potrafka.) Prepare as Duck Potrafka {see recipe, page 82), allowing 3 partridges to 6 persons. An excellent dish. Game and Poultry. 73 Rebhahn-Salmi. (Salmi of Partridge.) For 6 Persons* Time of Preparation : 3 J hours. 4 partridges roasted without ] I pint water. cream. \ teaspoon ful Liebig's Meat \ pint strong brown " Grund- Extract. sauce." I oz. chopped onions. I gill red wine

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