Force-meat Snipes

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status
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Ingredients (24)
Force-meat
Snipes and filling
Instructions (19)
  1. Make force-meat with veal, equal quantity of beef suet chopped and beaten in a mortar, and equal quantity of bread crumbs.
  2. Mix in a little beaten mace, pepper, salt, some parsley, and a little sweet herbs.
  3. Mix it with the yolk of an egg.
  4. Line the dish with some of this force-meat.
  5. Lay the snipes, being first drawn and half roasted, on top.
  6. Chop the trail of the snipes and throw it all over the dish.
  7. Prepare the filling: take some good gravy (according to the bigness of your furtout), some truffles, morels, a few mushrooms, a sweetbread cut into pieces, and artichoke bottoms cut small.
  8. Let all stew together, shaking them.
  9. Beat the yolks of two or three eggs with a spoonful or two of white wine.
  10. Stir the egg and wine mixture into the stewed filling one way.
  11. When it is thick, take it off the heat and let it cool.
  12. Pour the cooled filling into the furtout.
  13. Add the yolks of a few hard eggs here and there within the filling.
  14. Season the filling with beaten mace, pepper, and salt.
  15. Cover the entire filling with the force-meat.
  16. Rub the yolks of eggs all over the force-meat to colour it.
  17. Send it to the oven.
  18. Bake for half an hour.
  19. Send hot to table.
Original Text
TAKE force-meat, made with veal, as much beef suet chopp'd and beat in a mortar, with an equal quantity of crumbs of bread; mix in a little beaten mace, pepper and salt, some parsley, and a little sweet herbs, mix it with the yolk of an egg, in some of this meat round the dish, then lay the snipes, being first drawn and half roasted. Take care of the trail. Chop it, and throw it all over the dish. Take some good gravy, according to the bigness of your furtout, some truffles and morels, a few mushrooms, a sweetbread cut into pieces, and artichoke-bottoms cut small; let all stew together, shake them, and take the yolks of two or three eggs, according as you want them, beat them up with a spoonful or two of white wine, stir all together one way, when it is thick take it off, let it cool, and pour it into the furtout: have the yolks of a few hard eggs, put in here and there, season with beaten mace, pepper and salt; to your force-meat cover it with the force-meat all over, rub the yolks of eggs all over to colour it, then send it to the oven. Half an hour does it, and send it hot to table.
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