Stewed Goose

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 (20)
Goose preparation
Stewing liquid and aromatics
Ragoo ingredients
Instructions (23)
  1. Flatten the goose breast with a cleaver, then press it down with your hands.
  2. Skin the goose breast.
  3. Dip the goose breast into scalding water.
  4. Let the goose breast cool.
  5. Lard the goose breast with bacon.
  6. Season the goose breast well with pepper, salt, and a little beaten mace.
  7. Flour the goose breast all over.
  8. Melt a pound of good beef suet, cut small, in a deep stew-pan.
  9. Add the prepared goose to the melted suet and brown it on both sides.
  10. When the goose is brown, add a pint of boiling water, one or two onions, a bundle of sweet herbs, a bay-leaf, some whole pepper, and a few cloves.
  11. Cover the stew-pan closely and let it stew softly until the goose is tender.
  12. Cooking time: about half an hour if small; if large, three-quarters of an hour.
Make the ragoo
  1. In the mean time, make a ragoo.
  2. Boil some turnips until almost tender.
  3. Boil some carrots and onions until tender.
  4. Cut the boiled turnips, carrots, and onions into little pieces.
  5. Put the cut vegetables into a sauce-pan.
  6. Add half a pint of good beef gravy, a little pepper and salt.
  7. Add a piece of butter rolled in flour.
  8. Let the ragoo stew all together for a quarter of an hour.
Serve
  1. Take the goose out of the stew-pan and drain it well.
  2. Lay the goose in a serving dish.
  3. Pour the ragoo over the goose.
Original Text
FLAT the breast down with a cleaver, then press it down with your hands, skin it, dip it into scalding water, let it be cold, lard it with bacon, season it well with pepper, salt, and n little beaten mace, then flour it all over, take a pound of good beef-suet cut small, put it into a deep stew-pan, let it be melted, then put in your goose, let it be brown on both sides; when it is brown, put in a pint of boiling water, an onion or two, a bundle of sweet herbs, a bay-leaf, some whole pepper, and a few cloves; cover it close, and let it stew softly till it is tender. About half an hour will do it, if small; if large one three quarters of an hour. In the mean time make a ragoo, boil some turnips almost enough, some carrots and onions quite enough; cut them all into little pieces, put them into a sauce-pan with half a pint of good beef-gravy, a little pepper and salt, a piece of butter rolled in flour, and let this stew all together a quarter of an hour. Take the goose and drain it well, then lay it in the dish, and pour the ragoo over it.
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