Cheap Gravy for Minced Veal

Ingredients

• Bones and trimmings of cold roast or boiled veal
• 1-1/2 pint water
• 1 onion
• 1/4 teaspoonful minced lemon-peel
• 1/4 teaspoonful salt
• 1 blade pounded mace
• the juice of 1/4 lemon
• thickening of butter and flour

Instructions

1. Put all the ingredients into a stewpan, except the thickening and lemon-juice, and let them simmer very gently for rather more than 1 hour, or until the liquor is reduced to a pint, when strain through a hair-sieve.
2. Add a thickening of butter and flour, and the lemon-juice;
3. set it on the fire, and let it just boil up, when it will be ready for use.
4. It may be flavoured with a little tomato sauce, and, where a rather dark-coloured gravy is not objected to, ketchup, or Harvey's sauce, may be added at pleasure.