while you thicken the sauce, and put to it 50 oysters cut up, a few
mushrooms chopped, lemon juice, white pepper and mace; or
catsup and anchovy sauce may be used to flavour it; also cream,
white wine, truffles, and morells, at discretion. Pour the sauce hot
over the meat, and garnish with slices of lemon and forcemeat balls,
also pickled mushrooms.—A Scrag of veal is very good, stewed in
thin broth or water, till very tender; make a sauce of celery, boiled in
two waters to make it white, then put into very thick melted butter,
stir in a coffee-cupful of cream, shake it two minutes over the fire,
and pour it over the veal. Or tomata or onion sauce. To Ragout—
Make a little gravy of the scrag and bones of the breast, cut the
meat into neat pieces, rather long than broad, and brown them in
fresh butter. Drain off the fat, and stew them in the gravy, with a
bunch of sweet herbs, a piece of lemon peel, a few cloves, a blade
of mace, two onions, white pepper, salt, and a little allspice. Simmer
slowly, keeping it covered close. When done, take out the meat,
skim off the fat, strain and thicken the gravy, add the juice of a
lemon and a glass of white wine, and pour it hot over the veal,
holding back the sediment. Breast and neck of veal may be stewed
in water, or weak broth, without forcemeat. Veal is sometimes
stewed with green peas, chopped lettuce, and young onions.—Lamb
may be dressed this way, and served with cucumber sauce.—Rabbit
the same, with white onion sauce. To Collar—Bone it, take off the
skin, and beat the meat with a rolling pin; season it with pepper,
salt, pounded mace, and a mixture of herbs, chopped very fine, then
lay on thick slices of ham or 2 calves' tongues, boiled and skinned;
bind it up in a cloth, and fasten it well with tape. Simmer it in
enough water to cover it, over a slow fire, till quite tender, which will
be about three hours and a half; then put it under a weight till cold.
You may put in, in different parts, pigs' and calves' feet boiled and
taken from the bones; also yolk of hard-boiled egg, grated ham,
chopped parsley, and slices of beet root. Collared Veal to be eaten
Hot—Spread a forcemeat over the breast (boned), then roll, bind it
up tight, and stew it in water or weak broth. Serve it in good veal
gravy, or on fricasseed mushrooms, and artichoke bottoms. This is
sometimes roasted.