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FORCE-MEAT BALLS
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FORCE-MEAT BALLS

2 ingredients 3 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

328
Calories
32g
Protein
20g
Fat
1g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 2 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Beef 100g cooked 250
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78

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

  • a pound of beef suet
  • six eggs very well

Directions

1

To a pound of the lean of a leg of veal, allow a pound of beef suet. Mince them together very fine. Then season it to your taste with pepper, salt, mace, nutmeg, and chopped sage or sweet marjoram. Then chop a half-pint of oysters, and beat six eggs very well. Mix the whole together, and pound it to a paste in a marble mortar. If you do not want it immediately, put it away in a stone pot, strew a little flour on the top, and cover it closely.

2

When you wish to use the force-meat, divide into equal parts as much of it as you want; and having floured your hands, roll it into round balls, all of the same size. Either fry them in butter, or boil them.

3

This force-meat will be found a very good stuffing for meat or poultry.

By Eliza Leslie · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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