Salmis of Grouse

Ingredients

• two Grouse
• 0.5 oz of butter
• half a carrot
• half an onion
• a sprig of thyme
• two bay-leaves
• six whole peppers
• 1 pint of Spanish sauce
• 1 wineglassful of sherry
• 0.5 breakfast-cupful of mushroom liquor
• the zest of a lemon
• season with salt
• season with pepper
• season with nutmeg
• six minced mushrooms
• two minced truffles

Method

1. 1

   Singe, draw, wipe, and truss the Grouse.

2. 2

   Season and place in a roasting-pan with butter.

3. 3

   Cook for eight minutes, then untruss and cut away wings, legs, and breasts.

4. 4

   Fry butter with carrot, onion, thyme, bay-leaves, and peppers until golden.

5. 5

   Hash the bodies of the Grouse and add to the mixture.

6. 6

   Moisten with Spanish sauce, sherry, mushroom liquor, and lemon zest.

7. 7

   Season and cook for twenty minutes.

8. 8

   Strain sauce over the pieces and cook with mushrooms and truffles for three more minutes.

9. 9

   Serve with croutons.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salmis of Grouse. — (1) Singe, draw, wipe, and truss two Grouse ; season with salt, place a few small pieces of butter Grouse — continued. over, put them in a roasting-pan in a brisk oven, and cook for eight minutes. Untruss, and cut away the wings, legs, and breasts. Put loz. of butter into a saucepan with half a carrot cut in very small pieces, half an onion cut the same, a sprig of thyme, two bay-leaves, and six whole peppers, and fry to a good golden colour (it will take about five minutes). Hash the bodies of the two Grouse, and add them to the other ingredients. Moisten with 1 pint of Spanish sauce, \ wineglassful of sherry, £ breakfast - cupful of mushroom liquor, and the zest of a lemon, season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and cook for twenty minutes. Now put the wings, legs, and breasts into a separate sauce- pan, and strain the sauce over them, adding six minced mushrooms and two minced truffles

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