Gravy for Hash

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (17)
Gravy base
Additions to hash
Thickener and enrichment
Garnish
Instructions (4)
  1. Throw into your hash a few mushrooms, a few truffles and morels first parboiled, a few artichoke bottoms, and asparagus tops.
  2. If you have them, add a good piece of butter rolled in flour, the yolks of two eggs, half a pint of cream, and one spoonful of mushroom catchup.
  3. Stir it all together very carefully till it is of a fine thickness.
  4. Then pour it into your dish, and lay the other half of the head as before mentioned, in the middle, and garnish it as before directed, with fried oysters, brains, and force-meat balls fried.
Original Text
Take half a pint of gravy, a large wine glaſs of white wine, a little beaten mace, a little nutmeg, and a little ſalt; throw into your haſh a few muſhrooms, a few truffles and morels firſt parboiled, a few artichoke bottoms, and aſparagus tops; if you have them, a good piece of butter rolled in flour, the yolks of two eggs, half a pint of cream, and one ſpoonful of muſhroom catchup; ſtir it all together very carefully till it is of a fine thickneſs; then pour it into your diſh, and lay the other half of the head as before mentioned, in the middle, and garniſh it as before directed, with fried oyſters, brains, and force-meat balls fried.
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