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Easy dinner recipes: Veal, Lamb, etc.

Easy dinner recipes: Veal, Lamb, etc.

No. 1. Manzo alla Certosina (Fillet of Beef)

Ingredients: Fillet of beef or rump steak, bacon, olive oil, salt,
nutmeg, anchovies, herbs, stock, garlic.

Put a piece of very tender rump steak or fillet of beef into a stewpan
with two slices of fat bacon and three teaspoonsful of the finest olive
oil; season with [...]

Easy dinner recipes: Fish

Easy dinner recipes: Fish

No. 1. Anguilla alla Milanese (Eels).

Ingredients: Eels, butter, flour, stock, bay leaves, salt, pepper,
Chablis, a macedoine of vegetables.

Cut up a big eel and fry it in two ounces of butter, and when it is a
good colour add a tablespoonful of flour, about half a pint of stock, a
glass of Chablis, a bay [...]

Easy dinner recipes: Minestre

Easy dinner recipes: Minestre

Minestra is a thick broth, very much like hotch-potch, only thicker. In
Italy it is often served at the beginning of dinner instead of soup; it
also makes an excellent lunch dish. Two or three tablespoonful of soup will be found a great improvement to any of these minestre.

No. 1. A Condiment for Seasoning [...]

Easy dinner recipes: Soups

Easy dinner recipes: Soups

No. 1. Clear Soup

Ingredients: Stock meat, water, a bunch of herbs (thyme, parsley,
chervil, bay leaf, basil, marjoram), three carrots, three turnips, three
onions, three cloves stuck in the onions, one blade of mace.

Cut up three pounds of stock meat small and put it in a stock pot with
two quarts of cold water, three [...]

Easy dinner recipes: Sauces

Easy dinner recipes: Sauces

Sauces

As the three chief foundation sauces in cookery, Espagnole or brown
sauce, Velute or white sauce, and Bechamel, are alluded to so often in
these pages, it will be well to give simple Italian easy dinner recipes for them.

Australian wines may be used in all easy dinner recipes where wine is mentioned:
Harvest Burgundy for [...]