The Myrtle Reed Cook Book

PORK

Prepare a good pie-crust, not too rich. Roll out half an inch thick, cut into strips, and roll a small sausage in each strip. Put the rolls into a baking-pan, and bake for half or three-quarters of an hour.

Drop the sausages into boiling water and boil slowly until they float. Drain, and rub with a mixture of butter, lemon-juice, and made mustard, heated very hot.

Peel, core, and slice four or five tart apples. Make a syrup of one cupful each of sugar and water and cook the apples in it very slowly until tender. Prick the sausages with a fork, simmer in boiling water for fifteen minutes, then drain and brown in the oven. Put the sausages in the centre of a small deep platter, arrange the apples around in a border, and serve.

Soak a small lean ham in cold water for six hours, wipe dry, put into a saucepan, and cover with cold water. Add an onion, four sprigs of parsley, and six each of cloves and pepper-corns. Boil slowly for two hours. Let cool in the water, take up, skin, and sprinkle thickly with crumbs and sugar. Put into a roasting-pan with one pint of sherry. Bake for forty minutes, basting every ten minutes. Serve the ham hot with the gravy in a separate bowl, or cold if preferred.

Butter an earthen baking-dish and fill with alternate layers of cold cooked chopped ham and cooked and drained noodles. Have ham on top. Beat two eggs with a cupful of milk, pour over, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

Dip the pork chops in beaten egg, then in seasoned crumbs, and put into a dripping-pan. Cover and cook in a very hot oven, adding a little boiling water if necessary to keep from burning. Serve with any preferred sauce.

Take two pounds of the pickled pigs’ feet as they come from the market, and boil in water to cover, seasoning with salt, pepper, celery seed, and a little vinegar. Boil until the meat slips from the bones. Remove the meat, cut it into small pieces, and reduce the liquid by rapid boiling to a cupful. Put the meat into a mould, pour the liquid over, and set away to cool. Serve with potato salad.

Trim off all the fat and the sinew from two tenderloins of pork. Dip in seasoned oil and broil slowly. Chop fine one tablespoonful each of pickles and parsley and mix to a smooth paste with two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and one teaspoonful of vinegar. Pour over the sauce and serve.

Split and trim the tenderloins, and marinate for an hour in lemon-juice and oil, seasoned with salt and pepper. Dip in fresh bread crumbs, broil, and serve with Piquante Sauce.

Wipe two pork tenderloins, put into a dripping-pan, and brown quickly in a hot oven. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and powdered sage and bake for forty-five minutes, basting from three to four times. Have half a dozen sweet potatoes parboiled. Peel, cut in half, sprinkle with sugar, and put into the pan with the meat. Cook until soft, basting whenever the meat requires it.

Split a large pork tenderloin, stuff with highly seasoned poultry stuffing, tie into shape, and roast. Baste frequently, take up, remove the string, and serve with gravy made of the drippings.

Trim off the rough ends, crack the ribs through the middle, rub with salt and pepper, fold over where cracked, stuff, sew or wrap with twine, put into dripping-pan with a pint of water, baste frequently and turn once. Should be a rich, even brown. Dressing: Three tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, a finely chopped onion, same of apple, half a teaspoonful each of powdered sage, salt, and pepper, and two tablespoonfuls of chopped beef suet. Cook slowly in a little water.

Score a leg of young pork, fill the slits with chopped onion and powdered sage, sprinkle with pepper, salt, and crumbs, and roast as usual, basting frequently. Serve with Cranberry Sauce.

Boil the pork until tender, drain and roast in the oven with three onions and three carrots sliced thin, a little minced parsley, thyme, and two cloves. Add one cupful of boiling stock, and baste frequently for the first half hour. Then strain and skim the gravy and reduce by rapid boiling until there is just enough to coat the surface of the meat. Spread it upon the meat, sprinkle thickly with crumbs, dust with cinnamon and pepper, and bake brown. Serve with a Cherry Sauce made as follows:

Stone a pound of ripe cherries and simmer the kernels for fifteen minutes in water to cover. Strain the water, add to it the cherries, two cupfuls of water, half a dozen cloves, a wineglassful of claret, a slice of bread, and sugar to taste. Simmer for half an hour, rub through a sieve, and boil until thick. Serve very hot.

Season a loin of pork and roast for two hours and a half, basting often with the drippings and hot water. About an hour before it is done, add peeled sweet potatoes cut in halves and sprinkle with sugar. Fifteen minutes later, add red cooking apples cored but not peeled. Bake until all are done, basting frequently. Thicken the drippings with flour for a gravy and serve separately.

Parboil a leg of pork and remove the skin. Put it in the oven to roast with a little water in the pan. Rub with butter, sprinkle with powdered sage, pepper, salt, bread crumbs, and finely minced onion. Insert poultry stuffing under the skin of the knuckle. Garnish the dish with balls of fried stuffing. Serve with gooseberry jam or tart apple sauce.

The chine is the backbone with the meat attached. Rub with salt, pepper, flour, and sage, and put into a dripping-pan with a pint of water. Lay a dozen sweet potatoes peeled and cut into halves around the meat. Bake, basting with the dripping. Serve with the potatoes around the meats.

Chop fine a pound and a half of fresh pork. Season with salt and pepper and minced onion. Add half the quantity of bread soaked until soft and squeezed dry, bind with two eggs well-beaten, shape into patties, and sauté in drippings. Garnish with sliced lemon and parsley.

VEAL

Soak and parboil the sweetbreads, cut into slices, season with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, and broil, basting with melted butter. Serve with Maître d’Hôtel Sauce.

Lard a whole liver with strips of salt pork. Brown in butter and drain off the fat. Brown a heaping tablespoonful of flour in fresh butter, add one cupful of white wine, and cook until thick and smooth, stirring constantly. Put the liver into a buttered casserole, pour over the gravy, add pepper to season, a bay-leaf, a small bunch of parsley, a bruised clove of garlic, two shallots, two onions, and a small carrot, sliced. Cover and cook slowly for an hour. Put the liver on a platter and strain the gravy over it. Return to the casserole, reheat, and serve.

Run twice through the meat-chopper one pound of calf’s liver and half a pound of fat bacon. Season with salt, pepper, mace, and parsley, add two tablespoonfuls of finely chopped lean ham and a chopped onion which has been fried in fat. Mix with the yolks of two eggs and then fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Line a mould with thin slices of bacon, put in the meat, cover with bacon, and bake slowly in a moderate oven. When it can be pierced easily it is done. Let cool in the mould, turn out, and garnish with parsley and lemon.

Soak for an hour in cold water. Cover with fresh cold water, bring quickly to the boil, and skim. Add for each tongue a carrot and turnip sliced and a small onion stuck with three cloves. Add sweet herbs to season and a little salt and pepper. Cook slowly for two hours. Drain, skin, and serve with a border of spaghetti or macaroni. If they are to be served cold, let them cool in the water in which they were cooked.

Trim and clean veal chops and sauté in olive-oil with a finely chopped onion. Add a little brown stock, half a dozen chopped mushrooms, two minced beans of garlic, and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Bring to the boil, thicken the gravy with browned flour cooked in butter, and serve.

Trim and clean convenient pieces of veal cutlet and lard with thin strips of bacon. Brown in a little butter, add a little clear stock with chopped onion, carrot, and turnip to season, and simmer until done. Drain and serve with string beans.

Butter a baking-pan, pour in a cupful of cold water, and lay in a thick slice of veal cutlet. Spread over the cutlet a dressing made of two cupfuls of bread crumbs, a chopped onion, a beaten egg, and salt, pepper and melted butter to season. Cover the pan, bake for half an hour, then take off the lid and brown.

Cut veal cutlets into convenient pieces and flatten with a potato-masher. Mix seasoned crumbs with chopped salt pork or bacon and make a stuffing. Roll up and tie into shape with strings. Brown in fat with a sliced carrot and a chopped onion. Add one cupful of stock, cover, and cook slowly for twenty minutes. This can be served in a casserole.

Cut a veal cutlet into small pieces. Pound each piece until very tender. Dip in beaten egg, then in seasoned crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with Tomato Sauce and shredded cabbage.

Brown a breast of veal in butter. Add two cupfuls of hot water or stock, a bunch of sweet herbs, two onions, half a dozen cloves, the peel of half a lemon, a blade of mace, and salt and pepper to season. Cook slowly, take up the veal, remove the larger bones, and strain the cooking liquid. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add the veal stock and one cupful of cream. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add the yolks of two eggs well-beaten, the juice of half a lemon, and half a dozen parboiled oysters. Pour the sauce over the meat and serve.

Cut three pounds of veal into strips, cover with cold water, boil, and skim. Add pepper, salt, and a little butter and a sufficient quantity of raw potatoes cut into balls with a French cutter. Make a batter of two eggs, half a cupful of milk, a pinch of salt, and enough sifted flour to make a batter that will drop from the spoon. Drop into the stew a spoonful at a time, cover, and boil for twenty minutes. Or steam the dumplings in oiled patty pans.

Sprinkle a breast of veal with salt and ginger. Slice an onion and fry it in butter with a little parsley and two or three celery tops. When hot, put in the breast of veal. Cover tightly and brown the veal in the same fat. Add half a cupful of canned tomatoes and a very little hot water. Cover, and cook slowly for two hours, turning the meat frequently. Thicken the gravy with flour rubbed smooth in a little cold water, season with minced parsley or carraway seed, boil up once, and serve.

Leave the kidney in. Unroll the loin and stuff with highly seasoned poultry stuffing, packing well around the kidney. Fold, tie firmly into shape, and roast, basting with the drippings and a little hot water. Before taking up, dredge with flour, and baste two or three times with melted butter. Take off the string and serve with a gravy made from the stuffing and thickened drippings.

Make a stuffing of stale bread crumbs and mix with a liberal quantity of finely chopped salt pork. Season with onion, salt, pepper, minced parsley, and melted butter. Fill the cavity under the thick part of the breast with as much stuffing as can be forced in and skewer into shape. Roast, basting frequently with melted butter and drippings.

Have the knuckle removed from a shoulder of veal and roast the fillet, basting frequently with melted butter and the drippings. Garnish with quartered lemons and parsley and serve with Oyster Sauce.

Bone a loin of veal, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and tie into shape. Season with salt and pepper, rub thickly with butter, and put it into a roasting-pan with half a cupful of water. Cover and roast for two hours, basting frequently. Drain the meat and brush it with the yolk of an egg, beaten smooth with half a cupful of stock. Sprinkle thickly with crumbs, grated cheese, and minced parsley, dot with butter, and brown in a very hot oven. Serve with mashed potatoes or potato croquettes.

Rub a well-trimmed breast of veal with melted butter, season highly with salt and pepper, and brown quickly in a hot oven. Pour over two cupfuls of canned tomatoes and bake until the veal is well done. Serve with the tomatoes as a garnish for the meat.

Chop fine three pounds of raw veal. Mix with three eggs beaten with three tablespoonfuls of cream or milk, four crackers rolled and sifted, and pepper, salt, and sage to season highly. Shape into a loaf and bake, covered in a little water, basting frequently with melted butter. Serve either hot or cold.

Have a three-pound knuckle of veal larded and brown it in pork fat, seasoning with salt and pepper. Add stock to moisten and one cupful of partially cooked lima beans. Cook for forty-five minutes, and serve very hot.

Have lean veal cut into convenient pieces. Put into a buttered casserole and cover with milk. Add a teaspoonful or more of finely chopped parsley, cover, and simmer very slowly until done. It must not boil. Thicken with a little flour cooked in butter, season to taste, and serve.

Cover a knuckle of veal with cold water, bring to the boil, and simmer for two hours, skimming as needed. Add a slice of onion, a blade of mace, a dozen cloves, half a dozen pepper-corns, a pinch of allspice, and half a nutmeg grated. When the meat falls from the bones, take out the bones, shred the meat, and reduce the liquid by rapid boiling until there is barely enough to cover the meat. Wet a mould with cold water, put in the meat, add to the liquid the juice of a lemon and salt and pepper to season, and pour over the meat. Let stand overnight and serve cold.