Mr. Gay’s Receipt to stew a Knuckle of Veal (No. 524)

The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's ... · Kitchiner, William · 1817

Source: The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual
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Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (13)

a knuckle of veal ↝ Veal, ground, raw [Lamb, Veal, and Game Products]
Salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
other herbs muckle
That which kill’d King Will
what never stands still
Some sprigs of that bed
spinach ↝ Spinach, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
endive ↝ Endive, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
lettuce ↝ Lettuce, raw [Lettuce and lettuce salads]
beet ↝ Beets, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
marigold ↝ Borage, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]

Instructions (8)

Take a knuckle of veal; You may buy it or steal; In a few pieces cut it, In a stewing-pan put it;
Salt, pepper, and mace, Must season this knuckle,
Then, what’s joined to a place With other herbs muckle; That which kill’d King Will, And what never stands still Some sprigs of that bed, Where children are bred.
Which much you will mend, if Both spinach and endive, And lettuce and beet, With marigold meet.
Put no water at all, For it maketh things small, Which lest it should happen, A close cover clap on;
Put this pot of Wood’s metal In a boiling hot kettle;
And there let it be, (Mark the doctrine I teach,) About, let me see, Thrice as long as you preach.
So skimming the fat off, Say grace with your hat off, O! then with what rapture Will it fill Dean and Chapter!

Original Text

Mr. Gay’s Receipt to stew a Knuckle of Veal.—(No. 524.)

Take a knuckle of veal; You may buy it or steal; In a few pieces cut it, In a stewing-pan put it; Salt, pepper, and mace, Must season this knuckle, Then, what’s joined to a place323-* With other herbs muckle;[324] That which kill’d King Will,324-* And what never stands still324-† Some sprigs of that bed,324-‡ Where children are bred. Which much you will mend, if Both spinach and endive, And lettuce and beet, With marigold meet. Put no water at all, For it maketh things small, Which lest it should happen, A close cover clap on; Put this pot of Wood’s metal324-§ In a boiling hot kettle; And there let it be, (Mark the doctrine I teach,) About, let me see, Thrice as long as you preach.324-‖ So skimming the fat off, Say grace with your hat off, O! then with what rapture Will it fill Dean and Chapter!

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