Gravy Made Without Meat for Fowls
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- The necks
- feet
- livers, and gizzards of the fowls
- 1 slice toasted bread
- 1/2 onion
- 1 faggot of savoury herbs
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 pint water
- thickening of butter and flour
- 1 dessertspoonful ketchup
Instructions
- Wash the feet of the fowls thoroughly clean, and cut them and the neck into small pieces.
- Put these into a stewpan with the bread, onion, herbs, seasoning, livers, and gizzards;
- pour the water over them and simmer gently for 1 hour.
- Now take out the liver, pound it, and strain the liquor to it.
- Add a thickening of butter and flour, and a flavouring of mushroom ketchup;
- boil it up and serve.