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TO  ROAST  A  CALF'S  HEAD
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TO ROAST A CALF'S HEAD

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

571
Calories
42g
Protein
21g
Fat
49g
Carbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Turmeric 1 tsp ground (3g) 9
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • two cloves of garlic
  • two quarts of boiling water
  • a large spoonful of salt
  • a pound of fresh butter
  • a pound of rice
  • three eggs
  • two chickens as
  • three spoons- ful of curry powder
  • 81 through a colander

Directions

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WASH and pick the head very nicely; having taken out the brains and tongue, prepare a good quantity of forced meat, with veal and suet well seasoned; fill the hole of the head with this forced meat, skewer and tie it together upon the spit, and roast it for an kour and a half. Beat up the brains with a little sage

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80 THE VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE.

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and parsley shred fine, a little salt, and the yelks of two or three eggs; boil the tongue, peel, and cut it into large dice, fry that with the brains, also some of the forced meat made up into balls, and slices of bacon. Let the sauce be strong gravy, with oysters, mushrooms, capers, and a little white wine thickened.

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TO MAKE A DISH OF CURRY AFTER THE

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EAST INDIAN MANNER. CUT two chickens as for fricassee, wash them clean, and put them in a stew pan with as much water as will cover them; sprinkle them with a large spoonful of salt, and let them boil till tender, covered close all the time, and skim them well; when boiled enough, take up the chickens, and put the liquor of them into a pan, then put half a pound of fresh butter "in the pan, and brown it a little; put into it two cloves of garlic, and a large onion sliced, and let these all fry till brown, often shaking the pan; then put in the chickens, and sprinkle over them two or three spoons- ful of curry powder; then cover the pan close, and let the chickens do till brown, often shaking the pan; then put in the liquor the chickens were boiled in, and let all stew till tender; if acid is agreeable, squeeze the juice of a lemon or orange in it.

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DISH OF RICE TO BE SERVED UP WITH

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THE CURRY, IN A DISH BY ITSELF. TAKE half a pound of rice, wash it clean in salt and water — then put it into two quarts of boiling water, and boil it briskly twenty minutes; strain it

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THE VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE. 81

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through a colander and shake it into a dish, but do not touch it with your fingers nor with a spoon.

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Beef, veal, mutton, rabbits, fish, &c. may be curried and sent to table with or without the dish of rice.

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Curry powder is used as a fine flavoured seasoning for fish, fowls, steaks, chops, veal cutlets, hashes, minces, alamodes, turtle soup, and in all rich dishes, gravies, sauce, &c. &c.

By Randolph, Mary, 1762-1828 · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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