A good Way to dress a MIDCALF

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Instructions (6)
  1. Take a calf's heart, stuff it with good forcemeat, and send it to the oven in an earthen dish, with a little water under it, lay butter over it, and dredge it with flour.
  2. Boil half the liver and all the lights together half an hour.
  3. Chop them small, and put them in a tossing-pan, with a pint of gravy, one spoonful of lemon pickle and one of catchup, squeeze in half a lemon, pepper and salt.
  4. Thicken with a good piece of butter rolled in flour.
  5. When you dish it up, pour the minced meat in the bottom, and have ready fried a fine brown the other half of the liver cut in thin slices, and little bits of bacon.
  6. Set the heart in the middle, and lay the liver and bacon over the minced meat, and serve it up.
Original Text
A good Way to dress a MIDCALF. TAKE a calf's heart, stuff it with good forcemeat, and send it to the oven in an earthen dish, with a little water under it, lay butter over it, and dredge it with flour, boil half the liver and all the lights together half an hour, then chop them small, and put them in a tossing-pan, with a pint of gravy, one spoonful of lemon pickle and one of catchup, squeeze in half a le- mon, pepper and salt, thicken with a good piece of butter rolled in flour; when you dish it up, pour the minced meat in the bottom, and have ready fried a fine brown the other half of the liver cut in thin slices, and little bits of bacon, set the heart in the middle, and lay the liver and bacon over the minced meat, and serve it up.
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