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Select a medium-sized fish, clean it thoroughly, and rub a little salt over it; wrap it in a cloth and put it in a steamer; place this over a pot of fast-boiling water and steam one hour; then lay it whole upon a hot side-dish, garnish with tufts of parsley and slices of lemon, and serve with drawn butter, prepared as follows: Take two ounces of butter and roll it into small balls, dredge these with flour; put one-fourth of them in a saucepan, and as they begin to melt, whisk them; add the remainder, one at a time, until thoroughly smooth; while stirring, add a tablespoonful of lemon juice, half a tablespoonful of chopped parsley; pour into a hot sauce boat and serve.
Garnish your dish with horse-radish and mushrooms. It is proper either for a side-dish or bottom dish; if you have it for a bottom-dish, cut your mutton into two fillets. To Collar a Breast of MUTTON.
Take a breast of mutton, half bone it, nick it cross, season it with pepper and salt; then broil it before the fire whilst it be enough, strinkling it over with bread-crumbs; let the sauce be a little gravy and butter, and a few shred capers; put it upon the dish with the mutton. Garnish it with horse-radish and pickles. This is proper for a side-dish at noon, or a bottom-dish at night.
In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy, relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace-of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
If there be still any fat remaining, lay a piece of clean blotting or writing paper on the broth when in the bason, and it will take up every particle of the fat. BEEF CAKES, chiefly intended for a side-dish of dressed meat. Pound some beef that is under done, with a little fat bacon or ham.
You must send up the mutton chops in the dish with the hotch-potch. When there are no pease to be had, you may put in the heads of asparagus, and if there be neither of these to be had, you may shred in a green savoy cabbage. This is a proper dish instead of soop. To make MINC'D COLLOPS. It is proper for either side-dish or top-dish. To make white Scotch Collops another Way.
Potatoes and cabbage'll do for a kind of a delicacy, sort of a side-dish, on-tree, you know; but give 'em beans for a steady diet. Why, off there in Chili, even, the people regularly live on beans, not exactly like ours, broad and flat, but they're beans. Wa'n't there some those ancients old Horace, or Virgil, may be rung in something about beans in some their poems?"
Let your sauce be no thicker than cream, which pour upon your chickens. Garnish your dish with sippets, mushrooms, and slices of lemon. They are proper for a side-dish or a top-dish either at noon or night. How to boil a TURKEY.
He lived in great style, and his dinners were most magnificent, consisting very often of an elephant roasted whole, ostrich patties, a tiger smothered in onions, stewed lions, and whale soup; but for a side-dish his greatest favourite consisted of little boys, as fat as possible, fried in crumbs of bread, with plenty of pepper and salt.
This is proper for a side-dish either for noon or night. To roast a BEAST KIDNEY. Take a beast kidney with a little fat on, and stuff it all around, season it with a little pepper and salt, wrap it in a kell, and put it upon the spit with a little water in the dripping-pan; what drops from your kidney thicken with a lump of butter and flour for your sauce. To fry your STUFFING. To stew CUCUMBERS.
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