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bread crumbs, and a little parsley; then set it before the fire to broil till it
is brown; and when you dish up the other part, put this in the middle; lay about
your hash brain cakes, with forced meat balls, and crisp bacon.
To make the Brain Cakes.
Take a handful of bread crumbs, a little shred lemon-peel, pepper, salt, nutmeg,
sweet marjoram, parsley shred fine, and the yolks of three eggs; take the brains
and skin them, boil and chop them small, so mix them all together; put a little
butter in your pan when you fry them, and drop them in as you do fritters. If
they should run in your pan, put in a handful more of bread crumbs.
To hash a Calf's Head White.
Take a calf's head, and boil it as much as you would do for eating; when it is
cold cut it in thin slices, and put it into a stew-pan, with a white gravy; then
put to it a little salt, shred mace, a pint of oysters, a few shred mushrooms,
lemon-peel, three spoonfuls of white wine, and some juice of lemon; shake all
together, boil it over the stove and thicken it up with a little butter and
flour. When you put it in the dish, you must lay a boiled fowl in the middle,
and a few slices of crisp, bacon round the dish.
To dress a Mock Turtle.
Take a calf's head with the skin upon it, and scald off the hair as you would do
off a
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