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Wild Duck En Casserole

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Wild Duck En Casserole

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Skin and split; wash and rub well with salt; pound flat so that they will lay flat in pan. Put a large piece of butter in a frying pan and fry until brown, put in casserole, add a cup of water and let cook slowly one hour. Add \ pt. cream.

  2. Mrs. F. W. Schimmel.

  3. PRESSED MEAT. Wash carefully 8 lbs. of beef plate. Put in a kettle. Cover with boiling water to retain the juices. Boil for a minute and skim. Add a few whole cloves. Set back on stove, slowly simmer until thoroughly cooked. That is, so tender until the meat drops to pieces. Remove from the stove. Let stand until cool enough to be handled. Take the meat from the liquor and take out the bone, gristle and tough white part. Separate, with the fingers, the meat into small pieces. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Press into a mold. Let stand over night in a cold place. The lean, fat and liquor should be in such proportion that the meat will slice without crumbling. A shoulder of veal may be used, or veal and beef together is delicious. Never boil. "Meat boiled is meat spoiled."

  4. Mrs. Charles H. Burwell.

  5. YORKSHIRE PUDDING WITH ROAST BEEF 2 eggs; 1 cup milk; 1 cup flour; a little salt. Mix and sift salt and flour; add the milk gradually to make a smooth batter. Beat egg light and add to batter; beat well; bake in gem pans for 35 minutes. Baste with drippings from beef after they are well risen. If preferred, batter may be poured in roasting pan and baked with roast on rack above it; in this way will baste itself. Serve cut in squares with the meat.

  6. BRAISED APPLES AND TENDERLOIN

  7. Individual tenderloin cut in small pieces; cut pocket in each; stuff with dressing and roast § hour. Take red apples, core and quarter without peeling; roll apples in plenty of granulated sugar that has a little cinnamon in. Lay on top of tenderloin with skin side up and bake until done. Serve quarter on each piece of tenderloin. Mrs. Douglas Webster.

  8. BEEF POT ROAST Get a 5 lb. piece of beef from the shoulder; cut up some pieces of suet with 1 small onion and brown in an iron kettle or fry in spider. When well browned on all sides add boiling water, which hardly covers the meat. Add 2 bay leaves. Cover closely and let simmer slowly until tender or at least 5 hours. Salt, roast half hour before time for serving. When roast is cooked take out of kettle and add enough water to the kettle to make sufficient amount of gravy; thicken with 3 tbs. of flour mixed smoothly in water. Boil gravy for about 5 minutes, then strain. It is very appetizing to boil with the meat some carrots sliced lengthwise and serve on platter with meat.

  9. Mrs. Paul A. Schmitt.

  10. BABOTEE (COLD MEAT LOAF).

  11. Put 2 tbs. of butter in frying pan; slice into this § small onion; cook until soft; add 2 oz. bread crumbs; 1 cup milk; take from fire and let stand 10 minutes. Add 8 almonds; 1 pt. of cold chopped meat; J tsp. curry powder; 3 eggs; mix all and put in loaf . Bake 20 minutes. Mrs. Martin.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1100Calories
55 gProtein
42 gFat
121 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Meat + beeftop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,533 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, flour, butter, meat, egg, beef, almond):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, flour, butter, meat, egg, beef, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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