ANOTHER PHEASANT SOUP

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
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Modern cookery for private families
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (14)
  1. Boil down the half-roasted birds as directed in the foregoing receipt.
  2. Strain and re-heat the soup.
  3. Pound the breasts of the birds to the finest paste.
  4. Soak bread in a little of the stock.
  5. Press the soaked bread very dry.
  6. Mix the pounded breast meat and soaked bread paste together (see Potage à la Reine, page 29 for proper manner of mixing).
  7. Clean the mushrooms as for pickling.
  8. Slice the mushrooms rather thickly.
  9. Stew the sliced mushrooms in butter for ten to fifteen minutes without browning, with a slight seasoning of mace, cayenne, and salt.
  10. Turn the stewed mushrooms into the mortar and pound them with the other ingredients (pounded breast meat and bread paste).
  11. Add the pounded mixture to the soup.
  12. Pass the soup through a strainer after the breasts are added.
  13. Bring the soup to the point of boiling.
  14. Serve with sippets à la Reine, or with others simply fried of a delicate brown and well dried.
Original Text
ANOTHER PHEASANT SOUP. Boil down the half-roasted birds as directed in the foregoing receipt, and add to the soup, after it is strained and re-heated, the breasts pounded to the finest paste with nearly as much bread soaked in a little of the stock and pressed very dry; for the proper manner of mixing them, see Potage à la Reine, page 29. Half a pint of small mushrooms cleaned as for pickling, then sliced rather thickly, and stewed from ten to fifteen minutes without browning, in an ounce or two of fresh butter, with a slight seasoning of mace, cayenne, and salt, then turned into the mortar and pounded with the other ingredients, will be found an excellent addition to the soup, which must be passed through a strainer after the breasts are added to it, brought to the point of boiling, and served with sippets à la Reine, or with others simply fried of a delicate brown and well dried. We have occasionally had a small quantity of delicious soup made with the remains of birds which have been served at table; and where game is frequently dressed, the cook, by reserving all the fragments for the purpose, and combining different kinds, may often send up a good tureen of such, made at a very slight cost. 35Pheasants, 2; stock, 5 pints; bread soaked in gravy (see Panada, Chapter VIII), nearly as much in bulk as the flesh of the breasts of the birds; mushrooms, 1/2 pint, stewed in one or two oz. of butter 10 to 15 minutes, then pounded with flesh of pheasants. Salt, cayenne and mace, to season properly.
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