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French Puff-paste of Beef- Suet

From The cook and housewife's manual (1862).

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A historical recipe

The cook and housewife's manual, by Margaret Lees Dods (1862).

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 above 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 in 771^ Lard also may be employed, using half lard and half beefsuet pounded with flour.
  3. It makes excellent paste if to be eaten hot.
  4. Cold paste is best made of butter only.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mortar and pestle
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Credit

From The cook and housewife's manual (1862), printed page 421, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b20412800

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.