‘Love in Disguise’

Name: ‘Love in Disguise’
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: finely chopped suet 2 tablespoonfuls; bread-crumbs 4 oz.; sweet marjoram 1 teaspoonful; parsley chopped fine 2 teaspoonfuls; pepper ¼ teaspoonful; minced ham 2 oz.; made mustard ½ teaspoonful; salt ½ teaspoonful; vermicelli 1 oz.; egg 1; a piece of greaseproof paper. Gravy flavoured with tomato, and rather reddish in colour.; four or five slices of fat bacon; a calf’s heart

An 18th Century Jest

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

a calf’s heart
bread-crumbs 4 oz.
finely chopped suet 2

Europe
United Kingdom
Main course
Dinner

Method

Break up the vermicelli into short lengths and simmer it in boiling stock for 10 to 15 minutes, lift out, drain, and let it get cold.
Remove all the pipes from the inside of the heart, clean it well, and let it lie in cold water for an hour.
Make the stuffing with the breadcrumbs, suet, parsley, sweet marjoram, grated lemon rind, minc