Forcemeat Balls

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound veal
• 1/2 pound suet
• sweet herbs
• mace
• 1 small nutmeg
• lemon peel
• pepper
• salt
• 2 egg yolks
• flour

Instructions

1. Take half a pound of veal and half a pound of suet cut fine, and beat them in a marble mortar or wooden bowl.
2. Add a few sweet herbs shred fine, a little mace pounded fine, a small nutmeg grated, a little lemon peel, some pepper and salt, and the yelks of two eggs.
3. Mix them well together and make them into balls and long pieces.
4. Then roll them in flour and fry them brown.
5. If they are for the use of white sauce, do not fry them, but put them in a sauce-pan of hot water and let them boil a few minutes.