No. 11. Forcemeat Balls for Mock Turtle Soups

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Complex

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By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

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Ingredients

  • Very common:—Lean of neck of veal, 4 oz.
  • beef-kidney suet, 4 oz, both finely chopped

Method

The French forcemeat, No. 17, is the most refined and appropriate forcemeat to serve in mock turtle, but a more solid and highly seasoned one is usually added to it in this country. In very common cookery the ingredients are merely chopped small and mixed together with a moistening of eggs; but when the trouble of pounding and blending them properly is objecte