Hash of Venison

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
Source
Modern cookery for private families
Status
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Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (12)
For a superior hash
For a plain dinner (gravy base)
To serve
Instructions (14)
  1. Cut the venison in small thin slices of equal size.
  2. Arrange them in a clean saucepan.
  3. Pour the gravy on them.
  4. Let them stand for ten minutes or more.
  5. Place them near the fire, and bring the whole very slowly to the point of boiling only.
  6. Serve the hash immediately in a hot-water dish.
For a plain dinner gravy
  1. Break down the bones of the venison small, after the flesh has been cleared from them.
  2. Boil the venison bones with the bones of three or four undressed mutton-cutlets, a slice or two of carrot, or a few savoury herbs, and about a pint and a half of water or broth, until the liquid is reduced quite one third.
  3. Strain it off, let it cool, and skim off all the fat.
  4. Heat the gravy.
  5. When it boils, thicken it with a dessertspoonful or rather more of arrow-root, or with the brown roux of page 107.
  6. Mix the same sauce (Christopher North's sauce) with it.
  7. Finish it exactly as the richer hash above.
  8. It may be served on sippets of fried bread or not, at choice.
Original Text
TO HASH VENISON.[92] 92.  Minced collops of venison may be prepared exactly like those of beef; and venison-cutlets like those of mutton: the neck may be taken for both of these. For a superior hash of venison, add to three quarters of a pint of strong thickened brown gravy, Christopher North’s sauce, in the proportion directed for it in the receipt of page 295.[93] Cut the venison in small thin slices of equal size, arrange them in a clean saucepan, pour the gravy on them, let them stand for ten minutes or more, then place them near the fire, and bring the whole very slowly to the point of boiling only: serve the hash immediately in a hot-water dish. 93.  Having been inadvertently omitted from its proper place, this receipt is transferred to the end of the present Chapter. For a plain dinner, when no gravy is at hand, break down the bones of the venison small, after the flesh has been cleared from them, and boil them with those of three or four undressed mutton-cutlets, a slice or two of carrot, or a few savoury herbs, and about a pint and a half of water or broth, until the liquid is reduced quite one third. Strain it off, let it cool, skim off all the fat, heat the gravy, thicken it when it boils with a dessertspoonful or rather more of arrow-root, or with the brown roux of page 107, mix the same sauce with it, and finish it exactly as the richer hash above. It may be served on sippets of fried bread or not, at choice.
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