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A Finer Oyster Forcemeat

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. an ounce of fresh butter
  2. Forcemeat

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Pound the preceding forcemeat to the smoothest paste, with the addition only of half an ounce of fresh butter, should it be sufficiently dry to allow of it.
  2. It is remarkably good when thus prepared, ami may be poached or fried in balls for soups or made dishes, or used to fill boned fowls, or the breasts of boiled turkeys with equally good effect.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
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Credit

From Modern cookery, for private families (1859), printed page 159, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21531456

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.