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Kidney and Bacon

From The Chicago Record cook book (1896).

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A historical recipe

The Chicago Record cook book, by Chesbrough, Mary Mott, [from old catalog] ed (1896).

United States

Known as an American 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 2 ingredients

  1. one cup of water
  2. one beef

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.
  • 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. Fry thin slices breakfast bacon, set aside to keep warm.
  2. Split one-half dozen mutton kidneys (or cut in slices one beef kidney), fry in bacon fat till brown, add one cup of water, pinch of salt, cover and stew slowly ten minutes, pour over bacon;
  3. serve with dry toast.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From The Chicago Record cook book (1896), printed page 79, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/chicagorecordcoo00ches

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.