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Alderney allspice animal Average cost bake beef black pepper blades of pounded boiling water bones bread crumbs breed brisket broil bunch of savoury butter and flour calf's head carrots cayenne chopped clear fire cloves Cold Meat Cookery cold roast colour cooking cover cutlets dish flavour flesh flour forcemeat garnish gravy horseradish ingredients INGREDIENTS.-The remains joint ketchup kidney lamb lemon-juice lemon-peel March to October milk minutes Mode Mode.-Cut mutton nice brown nutmeg onions parsley pepper and salt pepper to taste persons pickle piece of butter pork port wine potatoes pounded mace quantity recipe salt and pepper salt to taste saltpetre sauce savoury herbs season with pepper Seasonable from March serve shalot sheep simmer very gently skin slices of bacon sprinkle steaks stew stewpan Sufficient sweetbreads tablespoonful teaspoonful tender thick thin slices Time.-hour tureen turnips veal
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Page 78 - INGREDIENTS.— Loin of mutton, a little salt. Mode. — Cut and trim off the superfluous fat, and see that the butcher joints the meat properly, as thereby much annoyance is saved to the carver, when it comes to table. Have ready a nice clear fire (it need not be a very wide large one), put down the meat, dredge with flour, and baste well until it is done. Make the gravy as for roast leg of mutton, and serve very hot.
Page 6 - If the flesh intended to be eaten be introduced into the boiler, when the water is in a state of brisk ebullition, and if the boiling be kept up for...
Page 51 - Put the tongue into a stewpan with plenty of cold water and a bunch of savoury herbs ; let it gradually come to a boil, skim well, and simmer very gently until tender. Peel off the skin, garnish with tufts of cauliflowers or Brussels sprouts, and serve.
Page 76 - Mode.— Trim off some of the fat of the above quantity of loin or neck of mutton, and cut it into chops of a moderate thickness. Pare and halve the potatoes, and cut the onions into thick slices. Put a layer of potatoes at the bottom of a stewpan, then a layer of mutton and onions, and season with pepper and salt ; proceed in this manner until the stewpan is full, taking care to have plenty of vegetables at the top. Pour in the water, and let it stew very gently for 2i hours, keeping the lid of...
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Page 64 - Romney-Marsh, therefore, though not ranking as a first class in respect of perfection and symmetry of breed, is a highly useful, profitable, and generally advantageous variety of the English domestic sheep. 693 DIFFERENT NAMES HAVE BEEN GIVEN to sheep by their breeders, according to their age and sex. The male is called a ram, or tup; after weaning, he is said to be a hog, or hogget, or a lamb-hog, tup-hog, or teg; later he is a wether, or wether-hog; after the first shearing, a shearing, or dinmont;...