Spiced Veal

Ingredients

• three pounds of veal-steak
• one thick slice of salt pork
• three Boston crackers
• half a teacup of tomato catsup
• three well-beaten eggs
• one and one-half teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of pepper
• one grated lemon
• a piece of butter the size of an egg
• a spoonful of flour

Method

1. 1

   Chop veal and pork fine, add crackers, catsup, eggs, salt, pepper, and lemon.

2. 2

   Mold into a loaf, cover with cracker, baste with hot water and butter, and bake for three hours, basting often.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 280. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spiced Veal. — Chop three pounds of veal-steak and one thick slice of salt pork as fine as sausage meat ; add to it three Boston crackers rolled fine, half a teacup of tomato catsup, three well-beaten eggs, one and one-half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of pepper, and one grated lemon. Mould it in the form of a loaf of bread, in a small dripping-pan ; cover with one rolled cracker, and baste with a teacupful of hot water and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Bake three hours, basting very often. This is an excellent dish for tea. Veal and Ham Sandwiches. — Sandwiches are good made of veal and knuckle of ham simmered a long time in a very little water, until perfectly tender, then freed from the bones and chopped to- gether. Spread the mixture like butter, add mustard, and cover with another piece of bread, lightly buttered, as for ordinary sandwiches. Ve.\l Pie (i). — Five pounds of good veal ; cut it in small pieces; put in a kettle with water to cover it ; cov^er close, and boil two hours. P^or crust, one and one-half cup of sour milk, one-half cup of sweet suet or butter ; one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of soda. But- ter a five-quart pan, and put in the crust. Do not roll it too thin. Put in your veal ; pepper and salt to taste ; pour in the water the veal was boiled* in ; a piece of butter the size of an egg ; dredge in a spoon- ful of flou

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