Blanquette of Cold Meat
A historical recipe from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners, by Maria Parloa (1893).
A historical recipe
Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners; Economical Receipts for Those Who Are Cooking for Two or Three, by Maria Parloa (1893). Project Gutenberg eBook #56540.
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Source and licence
From Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners, by Maria Parloa (1893). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #56540 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56540). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
- 1 pint of cold white meat
- 1 gill of milk
- 1-1/2 gills of stock
- 1 teaspoonful of salt
- 1-1/4 teaspoonfuls of pepper
- 1-1/2 tablespoonfuls of butter
- 1 tablespoonful of flour
- A teaspoonful of lemon juice
- A teaspoonful of curry-powder may be stirred
Method
- 1 pint of cold white meat.
- 1 gill of milk or cream.
- 1-1/2 gills of stock.
- 1 teaspoonful of salt.
- 1-1/4 teaspoonfuls of pepper.
- 1-1/2 tablespoonfuls of butter.
- 1 tablespoonful of flour.
- Veal, lamb, or any kind of poultry, will answer for this dish.
- Have the meat free from fat and bone, and cut into dainty pieces.
- Season it with half the salt and pepper.
- Put the butter in a frying-pan and set on the fire.
- When hot, add the flour, stirring until the mixture is smooth and frothy;
- then gradually add the stock.
- Cook for two minutes;
- then add the milk and cold meat, and simmer gently for fifteen minutes.
- Turn out on a warm dish and garnish with rice, toast, or pastry cakes.
- A teaspoonful of lemon juice, added just as the blanquette is being removed from the fire, is an addition that pleases most tastes.
- A teaspoonful of curry-powder may be stirred into the butter when the flour is added, thus changing the dish to a delicate curry.