Boiled Veal

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 150 min Total: 150 min
Status
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Ingredients (18)
Instructions (13)
  1. Bone the veal and beat it a little.
  2. Rub it over with the yolk of an egg.
  3. Strew over it a little beaten mace, nutmeg, pepper, and salt.
  4. Add a large handful of parsley chopped small, with a few sprigs of sweet marjoram, and a little lemon peel cut exceeding fine.
  5. Mix in one anchovy washed, boned, and chopped very small, with a few bread crumbs.
  6. Roll the veal up very tight.
  7. Bind it hard with a fillet.
  8. Wrap it in a clean cloth.
  9. Boil it two hours and a half in soft water.
  10. When it is enough, hang it up by one end.
  11. Make a pickle for it: to one pint of salt and water put half a pint of vinegar.
  12. When you send it to the table cut a slice off one end.
  13. Garnish with pickles and parsley.
Original Text
BONE your veal, and beat it a little, then rub it over with the yolk of an egg, strew over it a little beaten mace, nutmeg, pepper, and salt, a large handful of parsley chopped small, with a few sprigs of sweet marjoram, a little le- mon peel cut exceeding fine, one anchovy wash- ed, boned, and chopped very small, and mixed with a few bread crumbs, then roll it up very tight, bind it hard with a fillet, and wrap it in a clean cloth, then boil it two hours and a half in soft water, when it is enough, hang it up by one end, and make a pickle for it: to one pint of salt and water put half a pint of vinegar, when you send it to the table cut a slice off one end: garnish with pickles and parsley.
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