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Mock Pigeons

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 1 ingredient

  1. two cupfuls of water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. First, take the bone from two fillets of veal;
  2. flatten them with the broad side of a hatchet and spread with a forcemeat of seasoned crumbs.
  3. Second, roll up these and bind in oblong shapes with string;
  4. put in a covered dripping-pan with two cupfuls of water, and bake for two hours.
  5. Third, when done season the gravy with pepper, salt and tomato catchup and thicken with browned flour;
  6. pour half of it over the meat and send the remainder to the table in a boat.

Plating

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Credit

From The Chicago Record cook book (1896), printed page 201, 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.