forcemeat

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For the forcemeat, which is covered with the flap, you must cut deep into it between 1 and 2, and help to each a thin slice, with a little of the fat BREAST OF VEAL The breast is composed of the ribs and brisket, and these must first be separated by cutting through the line 1, 2.

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  1. noun Finely ground and highly spiced meat, fish, or poultry that is served alone or used in stuffing.

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  • It was decent pork forcemeat, flavored with myrtle berries, peppercorns, and pine nuts; she had tossed it on the heat in oil strewn with the good end of a leek. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
  • Or stuff with a sausage forcemeat, make a bed for the cucumbers of chopped vegetables and moisten with stock or water; or fill with a tomato stuffing as for stuffed tomatoes, baste often with butter, or a nice gravy, put over a buttered paper and bake until done, in about fifteen or twenty minutes. —  Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs
  • They should be first peeled very slightly and then cut, long-ways, into three zigzag slices; the pips should be removed and the interior filled with either mushroom forcemeat (_see MUSHROOM FORCEMEAT) or sage-and-onion stuffing made with rather an extra quantity of bread-crumbs. —  Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
  • The forcemeat or stuffing should be made hot before it is placed in the marrow. —  Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
  • Stuff fish with this forcemeat, then lay it in a greased pan, put thin strips of salt pork over it and bake in hot oven for forty minutes. —  The Story of Crisco
 

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  1. force (alteration of farce) + meat.

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  1. For farce meat or farced meat: see force for farce, and meat.
 

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