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A Goose

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. a glass of port wine
  3. Mustard
  4. Cut

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. First cut round the apron (or hollow skin extending fror.
  2. the end of the breast bone to the rump) ;
  3. then, if approved, stir into the body a glass of port wine and a large tea spoonful of made mustard.
  4. Then cut the whole breast into slices, but remove them only as required to help the company, unless there is a probability of the legs also being wanted.
  5. In that case, holding the small end of the bone, pass the knife between the leg and the carcase, and turn the leg back, when it will easily separate.
  6. It should be observed that in water fowl the joints are wider spread and go further back.
  7. It

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
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Credit

From The cook's complete guide, on the principles of frugality, comfort, and elegance (1830), printed page 735, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b2153391x

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.