The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.].
- Esther Copley
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
131/510 page 115
![required. Though very thin, it will take two hours, either for roasting or baking. Mushroom or onion sauce. BREAST BOILED, Will require from two and a half to three hours, sauce and Kelly’s sauce. Cap ier BREAST, STEWED. Set it on whole, or cut in pieces, in cold water; let it boil gently for two hours, or two arid a half. If possible, do this the day before it is wanted, or very early in the morning, that time may be allowed for the liquor to become perfectly cold. Two pounds or more, of excellent fat, will then have settled at the top, which must be entirely removed. If there is not time to let the liquor cool, care- lully skim off all the fat while hot; but this is not so well. Make the liquor boil up again; then add six ounces of rice or barley, eight or ten turnips cut in pieces, five or six onions or leeks, and two or three carrots (some like anil others object to, the addition of a little parslev)' When these have boiled fast for twenty minutes, or half an hour, return the meat to the liquor with a little pepper and salt, and let all hoil, slowly, an hour, or as much onger as time will allow. The meat should do, in the a ill at eaSt thrfe ]lours 5 four, it is all the better. Add plain or suet dumplings, if approved; let them hoil SADDLE OR CHINE. 1 he butcher should strip off the skin, and skewer it on again. If this is not done, a sheet of paper must be fas- ene( on to prevent its burning, and to preserve the juice. a an hour before the meat is done, remove the skin or paper, anil flour it lightly that it may froth and brown.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21534202_0131.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
