Fricaffee Calf's Feet

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (14)

main ingredients

fricaffee CALF'S FEET
half a pint of good gravy ↝ Gravy, NFS [Dips, gravies, other sauces]
a few morels ↝ Mushrooms, morel, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle ↝ Pickles, dill [Olives, pickles, pickled vegetables]
a little mushroom powder ↝ Gravy, mushroom, dry, powder [Soups, Sauces, and Gravies]
pickled mushrooms ↝ Mushrooms, pickled [Olives, pickles, pickled vegetables]
the yolks of four eggs boiled hard ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
a little salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
a little butter rolled in flour ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
the yolk of an egg ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
a tea-cupful of good cream ↝ Cream, whipped [Cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream]
half a nutmeg grated ↝ Oil, nutmeg butter [Fats and Oils]

garnish

lemon ↝ Lemon, raw [Citrus fruits]
curled parsley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]

Instructions (7)

Boil your feet, take out the bones and cut the meat in thin slices, and put it into a tossing-pan.
Add half a pint of good gravy and boil them a little.
Then put in a few morels, a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle, a little mushroom powder, or pickled mushrooms, and the yolks of four eggs boiled hard, and a little salt.
Thicken with a little butter rolled in flour.
Mix the yolk of an egg with a tea-cupful of good cream, and half a nutmeg grated, and put it in.
Shake it over the fire, but do not let it boil, it will curdle the milk.
Garnish with lemon, and curled parsley.

Original Text

To fricaffee CALF'S FEET.
BOIL your feet, take out the bones and cut the meat in thin slices, and put it into a tossing-pan, with half a pint of good gravy, boil them a little, and then put in a few morels, a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle, a little mushroom powder, or pickled mushrooms, the yolks of four eggs boiled hard, and a little salt, thicken with a little butter rolled in flour, mix the yolk of an egg with a tea-cupful of good cream, and half a nutmeg grated, put it in, and shake it over the fire, but do not let it boil, it will curdle the milk: garnish with lemon, and curled parsley.

Notes

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