Small Pain de Veau, or, Veal Cake

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
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Modern cookery for private families
Time
Cook: 75 min Total: 75 min
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Ingredients (7)
Instructions (8)
  1. Chop separately and very fine, a pound and a quarter of veal quite free from fat and skin, and six ounces of beef kidney-suet.
  2. Add a teaspoonful of salt, a full third as much of white pepper and of mace or nutmeg, with the grated rind of half a lemon.
  3. Turn the whole well together with the chopping-knife until it is thoroughly mixed.
  4. Press it smoothly into a small round baking dish.
  5. Send it to a moderate oven for an hour and a quarter.
  6. Lift it into a clean hot dish, and serve it plain, or with a little brown gravy in a tureen.
  7. If baked in a hot oven, the meat will shrink to half its proper size, and be very dry.
  8. When done, it should be of a fine light brown, and like a cake in appearance.
Original Text
SMALL PAIN DE VEAU, OR, VEAL CAKE. Chop separately and very fine, a pound and a quarter of veal quite free from fat and skin, and six ounces of beef kidney-suet; add a teaspoonful of salt, a full third as much of white pepper and of mace or nutmeg, with the grated rind of half a lemon, and turn the whole well together with the chopping-knife until it is thoroughly mixed; then press it smoothly into a small round baking dish, and send it to a moderate oven for an hour and a quarter. Lift it into a clean hot dish, and serve it plain, or with a little brown gravy in a tureen. Three ounces of the lean of a boiled ham minced small, will very much improve this cake, of which the size can be increased at will, and proportionate time allowed for dressing it. If baked in a hot oven, the meat will shrink to half its proper size, and be very dry. When done, it should be of a fine light brown, and like a cake in appearance. Veal, 1-1/4 lb.; beef-suet, 6 oz.; salt, 1 teaspoonful; pepper and mace, or nutmeg, 3/4 teaspoonful each; rind of 1/2 lemon; ham (when added) 3 oz.; baked 1-1/4 hour.
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