Veal Cake

Ingredients

• cut the veal into neat slices
• an equal number of slices of lean ham
• hard-boiled eggs cut in slices
• a sprinkling of chopped parsley
• pepper
• salt
• fill the mould with the gravy

Method

1. 1

   Arrange the veal and ham in layers in a mould, adding slices of hard-boiled eggs and a sprinkling of parsley, pepper, and salt between each layer.

2. 2

   Fill the mould with gravy, bake in the oven for about half an hour, and turn out when cold.

3. 3

   Garnish with parsley and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 162. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cut the veal into neat slices, and take an equal number of slices of lean ham. Arrange the meat in layers in a mould, and put hard-boiled eggs cut in slices, with a sprinkling of chopped parsley, pepper, and salt between each layer. Mil the mould with the gravy, bake in the oven for about half an hour, and turn the shape out when cold. Garnish the cake with parsley, and serve. 2: Wash a pound of prunes, and put them to soak in cold water all night. 3. Make hydropathic pudding of the bottled raspberries, for dinner to-morrow (June 16th). 4. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. May 29th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Boiled Eggs. Boiled Ham. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Milk Toast. Australian Meat, Cold. Baked Potatoes. Pickle. Stewed Prunes. Fried Plaice. Calf’s Liver and Bacon. Mutton Chops, Stewed is their own Gravy. * New Potatoes. Spring Cabbages. Hydropathic Pudding. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— A thick Plaice (April 21st and January 3rd); a pound and a half of Calf’s Liver; half a pound of Streaky Bacon, cut into rashers. As it is possible that the liver will be too much for the digestion of some of the A YEAR'S COOKER Y. 203 diners, it will be well to have also a dish of Mutton Chops stewed in their own gravy. The chops, as many as may he required, will he best taken from the loin. New Potatoes; Spring Cabbages; one-pennyworth of fresh German Yeast. For To-morrow.— Two-pennyworth of Watercress. Breakfast. — Boiled Eggs (January 5th) ; Boiled Ham (Note 4, May 27th) ; Milk Toast (June 17th). Luncheon. — Australian Meat, Cold (February 4th) ; Baked Pota¬ toes (May 4th) ; Stewed Prunes (February 27th). Dinner. — Fried Plaice (April 21st); Calf’s Liver and Bacon (January 17th). Mutton Chops, Stewed in their own Gravy. — Trim away the fat entirely, dip each chop quickly in and out of cold water, sprinkle pepper lightly upon it, and dredge it well on both sides with flour. For each chop that is to be cooked put a table¬ spoonful of water or broth into a thick iron saucepan, lay the chops side by side in a single layer, put on the lid, and simmer as gently as possible, but without ceasing, for an hour and a half. Turn them over when half cooked. Just before serving throw a tea-spoonful of chopped parsley into the gravy. If the gravy should be dried up, another spoonful or two of water may be added, but there will not be much fear of this if the chops are gently stewed. Chops prepared in this way are tender and easily digested, and suitable for invalids. New Potatoes (April 12th); Spring Cabbages (June 4th); Hydro¬ pathic Pudding (June 16th); Custard (August 10th); Cheese (June 8th). _ Things that must not bo Forgotten. 1. Make a veal cake of the remains of the dressed veal (Note 1, May 28th). 2. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 3. Pastry is to be made to-day : gooseberry pie of bottled goose¬ berries, or of fresh gooseberries if the season is an early one (August 7th) ; lemon cheesecakes (August 18th) ; treacle tart (August 7tli) ; also Vienna bread (August 26th) ; Annie’s cake (September 25th). Rough Puff Paste. — Many housekeepers would consider puff paste (April 24tli) too troublesome to make, as well as too expensive, and, it might be added, too indigestible to be used excepting on very special occasions. When this is the case the directions given in the following recipe may be followed, and the pastry will be found excellent, being suited for superior pies, tarts, and tartlets. Put half a pound of fine flour (Vienna flour if it is allowed) upon a board, with six ounces of butter, and chop the butter in the flour with a knife. A dexterous cook may break, not rub, the butter in the flour. Make a well in the centre of the flour, and drop into it half a tea-spoonful of lemon-juice, a pinch of salt, and the yolk of an egg. The latter may be omitted. Mix the pastry lightly with water ; the water should be added gradually and mixed in with the fingers. Keep the board and the 204 A YEAR'S COOKERY. hand floured, to prevent the pastry sticking to it. The pastry should not be too stiff, or it will not be light. Flour the rolling- pin and give the pastry three good rolls, and after each roll fold the pastry over in half and turn the rough edges to the front. If the pastry bladders or cracks as it is rolled, it is a sign that it is good. To make a pie, moisten the edge of the dish, and lay on it a strip of paste three-quarters of an inch thick. Moisten the edge again, and roll the paste for the top, but much thinner than for the strip. Brush the top, but not the sides, of the pastry over with yolk of egg, and bake it in a well-heated but not fierce oven. The oven must not be fierce because the pastry is to rise ; if too hot it would stiffen the surface at once without giving it a chance of rising. When the pastry is done enough the pie should be put in the top or cooler part of the oven to cook the inside. An easy way of making Puff Paste is to brush white of egg over the paste between the turns. 4. Boil the piece of ham that is in the house (Note 4, May 27th). May 30th. Breakfast. Eggs on the Dish. Boiled Ham. Vienna Bread. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Watercress. Porridge. Marketing. For the Bay.— Half a pound of Mushrooms, or, failing these, a small tin of Champignons ; a tin of Preserved Salmon ; a two-pound tin of Roast Chicken ; six ounces of Beef Suet ; a pennyworth of Parsley. For To-morrow.— A pair of thick Soles (January 3rd); the fishmonger should be asked to fillet the fish. A Fore-quarter of Lamb (April 11th); four moderate-sized fresh Mackerel (April 1th) ; two-pennyworth of young Mint ; New Potatoes; materials for the Salad on Sunday night ; Spinach; a hunch of Asparagus ; a tin of Preserved Peaches. Order also three pennyworth of Cream for the Gooseberry Pie. Luncheon. Australian Savoury Hash. Treacle Tart, Dinner. Pickled Salmon. Chicken Sautd aux Cham¬ pignons. New Potatoes. Cabbage. Golden Pudding. Cheese. Breakfast. — Veal Cake (May 28th) ; Ham boiled May 29th ; Vienna Bread (August 26th) ; Porridge (January 25th). Luncheon. — Savoury Hash of Australian Meat (February 5th) ; Treacle Tart (August 7th), made yesterday. Dinner. — Pickled Salmon. — To pickle preserved salmon, take the salmon out of the tin an hour or two before it is wanted, divide it into neat pieces (this will make it look more like fresh salmon), and pour over it a pickle made of equal parts of vinegar and water, boiled with pepper

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