The frugal housewife; or, experienced cook : wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / originally written by Susanna Carter, but now improved by an experienced cook in one of the principal taverns in the city of London.

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I’o dress Scutch Collops, Sfc. - MADE DISHES. To dress Scotch Collops. Take a piece of fillet of veal, cut it in thin pieces, as big as a crown-piece, but very thin; shake a little flour ovei it, then put a little butter in a frying-pan, and melt it; put in the collops, and fry them quick till they are brown, then lay them in a dish; have ready a good ragoo made thus : take a little butter in a stewpan, and melt it, then add a large spoonful of flour, stir it about till it is smooth, then put in a pint of good brown gravy ; season it with pepper and salt, pour in a small glass of white wine, some veal sweet-breads, force-meat balls, truffles and morels, ox palates, and mushrooms; stew them gently for half an hour, add the juice of half a lemon to it, put it over the collops, and garnish with rashers of bacon. Some like the Scotch collops made thus : put the collops into the ragoo, and stew them for five minutes. White Scotch Collops. Cut the veal the same as for Scotch collops; throw them in a stewpan; put boiling water over them, and stir them about, then strain them off'; take a pint of good veal broth, and thicken it; add a bundle of sweet herbs, with some mace ; put sweet-bread, force-meat balls, and fresh mushrooms ; if no fresh to be had, use pickled ones washed in warm w'ater ; stew them fifteen minutes; add the yolk of an egg and a half, and a pint of cream: beat them well together with some nut- meg grated, and keep stirring till it boils up; add the juice of a quarter of a lemon, then put it in a dish. Gar- nish with lemon A fillet of Tea! with Collops. For an alteration, take a small fillet of veal, cut what collops you want, then take the udder and fill it with force-meat, roll it round, tie it with a packthread across, and roast it; lay the collops in a dish, and lay your udder in the middle. Garnish yonr dishes with lemon. Force-meat Halls. You are to observe, that force-meat