Veal Steaks

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 (18)
For the steaks
For the gravy and serving
For brown ragoo variation
For white ragoo variation
Instructions (16)
  1. Cut a neck of veal into steaks.
  2. Flatten them with a rolling-pin.
  3. Season them with salt, pepper, cloves and mace.
  4. Lard them with bacon, lemon-peel, and thyme.
  5. Dip them in the yolks of eggs.
  6. Make a sheet of strong cap-paper up at the four corners in form of a dripping-pan.
  7. Pin up the corners.
  8. Butter the paper and also the gridiron.
  9. Let it ever the fire of charcoal.
  10. Put in your meat.
  11. Let it do leisurely.
  12. Keep it basting and turning to keep in the gravy.
  13. When it is enough, have ready half a pint of strong gravy, season it high, put in mushrooms and pickles, force-meat balls dipped in the yolks of eggs, oysters stewed and fried.
  14. Lay the round at the top of your dish, and then serve it up.
Variations
  1. If for a brown ragoo, put in red wine.
  2. If for a white one, put in white wine, with yolks of eggs beat up with two or three spoonfuls of cream.
Original Text
Cut a neck of veal into ſteaks, flatten them with a rolling-pin, ſeaſon them with ſalt, pepper, cloves and mace, lard them with bacon, lemon-peel, and thyme, dip them in the yolks of eggs, make a ſheet of ſtrong cap-paper up at the four corners in form of a dripping-pan; pin up the corners, butter the paper and alſo the gridiron, and let it ever the fire of charcoal; put in your meat, let it do leiſurely, keep it baſting and turning to keep in the gravy; and when it is enough, have ready half a pint of ſtrong gravy, ſeaſon it high, put in muſhrooms and pickles, force-meat balls dipped in the yolks of eggs, oyſters ſtewed and fried, lay the round at the top of your diſh, and then ſerve it up. If for a brown ragoo, put in red wine. If for a white one, put in white wine, with yolks of eggs beat up with two or three ſpoonfuls of cream.
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