Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks: Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food

two days, and then cook it. _Another way._--Lard the piece of venison and put it in a crockery vessel; spread all over two or three onions and a clove or two of garlic (both sliced), half a gill of sweet-oil, same of claret wine, a pinch of allspice, four cloves, and two sprigs of thyme; baste twice a day for two or three days, and then cook. _To bake._--Put the venison in a baking-pan with the seasonings in which it has improved; spread some butter on it, and bake in a rather quick oven; baste now and then, and turn over if necessary. When baked, serve with a _ravigote_ sauce, to which you have added the gravy from the pan in which it has been baked. Serve it also with a cranberry, _piquante_, _Robert_, or _Tartar_ sauce, or with currant-jelly. _In Civet._--Shoulder, neck, and breast-pieces are cut and prepared in civet, in the same way as a civet of rabbit. It may also be kept three or four days and warmed in a _bain-marie_; it improves it as much as that of rabbit. _With Mushrooms._--Any piece of venison, baked or roasted, may be served with a garniture of mushrooms. _Cutlets, broiled._--The cutlets are much better when improved as directed. The seasonings are spread all over. They are then wrapped up in buttered paper and broiled on a quick fire. They may also be larded with salt pork, and then broiled with or without being enveloped in paper. When broiled and dished, serve them warm with a _maître d'hôtel_ or _ravigote_ sauce. _Sautées._--Put six cutlets in a stewpan, larded or not, with salt, pepper, eight small onions, two carrots, four sprigs of parsley, two of thyme, two cloves, a bay-leaf, a gill of broth, and same of water; set it on a good fire and boil gently till cooked. Dish the cutlets so that every small end or bone rests on the larger end of another, and serve with the sauce strained on them. If more sauce is desired, add to it any of the following: cranberry, _piquante_, _ravigote_, _Robert_, or