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Kidney and Mushrooms

A historical recipe from Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916).

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A historical recipe

Allied Cookery: British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #44947.

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

United Kingdom This recipe is known as British, but other nations also prepare similar recipes.

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #44947 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44947). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

Method

  1. Take some sheep's kidneys, skin, halve, and core them, sprinkle each piece with pepper, salt, and sauté them in butter till a good brown;
  2. have a large mushroom peeled and cored for each half kidney, fry in the same fat as the kidney;
  3. lay the mushrooms in a hot dish, on each put a piece of tomato heated in the oven, then a half kidney, put a little pat of butter on each, and serve with either a pile of mashed potatoes or spinach in centre of dish.

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