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Coffee (Braised Fillet of Veal- pounds)

*Braised Fillet of Veal-31½ pounds veal, 14 pound larding bacon, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 1/2 lemon, forcemeat, stock and a little celery.

Remove bone, fill in cavity with forcemeat. Cut some even strips of bacon 14 of an inch thick, and with a larding needle thread neatly on top of meat. Slice vegetables, place them in a pan, set veal on these, sprinkle with a little lemon juice. Cover with Criscoed paper, and add stock to come three-parts up the meat.

Cover closely and set pan in oven (in order to get top heat also) or over a gentle fire, and simmer 2½ to 3 hours. Remove veal to a dripping tin with very little stock, and brown in front of fire or in hot oven.

Reduce stock in pan, meanwhile, by fast boiling without lid, and strain round meat. Garnish with cut lemon, and, if liked, with curled bacon and forcemeat balls.

The forcemeat is made as follows:

A 1/4 cup Crisco, 4 tablespoons chopped cooked ham, 1 cup breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon mixed herbs, thyme, and marjoram. Add salt and pepper to taste, and mix with 2 well-beaten eggs.

March 25