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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 14 ingredients

  1. Salt
  2. Flour
  3. a pint of good cream
  4. Must
  5. a pound of fresh butter
  6. a sprig of lemon thyme
  7. Mace
  8. Nutmeg
  9. Cut
  10. a pint of cream
  11. Rabbits
  12. a pint of young mushrooms
  13. Rub
  14. ten white pepper
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Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Flour Source of phosphorus · Source of copper · Source of manganese · +1

    Source of phosphorus · 106 mg per 100 g, 15% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Phosphorus contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Phosphorus contributes to normal function of cell membranes.
    • Phosphorus contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Phosphorus contributes to the maintenance of normal teeth.

    Phosphorus is a mineral contained in each cell in our body. Most phosphorus is in the bones and teeth, and some is in your genes. NIH fact sheet

    Source of copper · 0.2 mg per 100 g, 17% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Copper contributes to maintenance of normal connective tissues.
    • Copper contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Copper contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    5 more authorised claims
    • Copper contributes to normal hair pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to normal iron transport in the body.
    • Copper contributes to normal skin pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Copper contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Copper is a mineral that you need to stay healthy. Your body uses copper to carry out many important functions, including making energy, connective tissues, and blood vessels. NIH fact sheet

    Source of manganese · 0.6 mg per 100 g, 28% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Manganese contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Manganese contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    • Manganese contributes to the normal formation of connective tissue.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Manganese contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Manganese is a mineral that your body needs to stay healthy. Your body uses manganese to make energy and protect your cells from damage. NIH fact sheet

    Source of selenium · 10 µg per 100 g, 19% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Selenium contributes to normal spermatogenesis.
    • Selenium contributes to the maintenance of normal hair.
    • Selenium contributes to the maintenance of normal nails.
    3 more authorised claims
    • Selenium contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Selenium contributes to the normal thyroid function.
    • Selenium contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Selenium is a nutrient that the body needs to stay healthy. Your thyroid gland needs selenium to produce hormones and function properly. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Flour, 00”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

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

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • 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. Wash and pick a pint of young mushrooms, and rub them with salt, to take off the tender skin ;
  2. then put them into a saucepan with a little salt, nutmeg, a blade of mace, a pint of cream, and a good piece of butter rubbed m flour;
  3. boil the whole up, and stir it well till it is done, and then pour it round fowls or rabbits.
  4. Garnish with lemons.
  5. If fresh mushrooms cannot be had, pickled ones done white with a little mushroom powder will answer the purpose.
  6. Lemon Sauce for boiled Foxvls.
  7. Cut the peel off a lemon very thin, and put it into a pint of good cream, with a sprig of lemon thyme, and ten white pepper-corns.
  8. Simmer the whole gently till it tastes strongly of the lemon;
  9. strain it, and thicken it with a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, and a dessert-spoonful of flour.
  10. Boil it well, then pour into it the juice of the lemon that has been strained, stirring it all the time.
  11. When the fowls are dished, mix up a little of the white gravy, quite hot, with the cream, but they must not be boiled together.
  12. Add salt to your taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve