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French Puff-Paste of Beef Suet

From The cook and housewife's manual (1847).

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A historical recipe

The cook and housewife's manual, by C. I. (Christian Isobel) Johnstone (1847).

France

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a spoonful of olive oil

Method

  1. Prepare, as elsewhere directed, and pound good dry suet in a mortar, with a spoonful of olive oil, to which more and more is gradually added till the suet becomes like butter.
  2. Use it exactly as butter.
  3. Lard also may be employed, using half lard and half beef suet.
  4. It makes excellent paste if to be eaten hot« Cold paste eats best when made of butter only.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mortar and pestle
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From The cook and housewife's manual (1847), printed page 433, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cookandhousewif03johngoog

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.