Dormers

Patties of chopped meat, suet and rice, rolled in egg and crumb, fried. Known from Mrs.B, Hartley 1954 and two 19th Century Cornish texts.

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Original Receipt in 'The Book of Household Management', 1861, edited by Isabella Beeton (See Mrs.B)

DORMERS.
715. INGREDIENTS:½ lb. of cold mutton, 2 oz. of beef suet, pepper and salt to taste, 3 oz. of boiled rice, 1 egg, bread crumbs, made gravy.
Mode: Chop the meat, suet, and rice finely; mix well together, and add a high seasoning of pepper and salt, and roll into sausages; cover them with egg and bread crumbs, and fry in hot dripping of a nice brown. Serve in a dish with made gravy poured round them, and a little in a tureen.
Time:½ hour to fry the sausages.
Average cost: exclusive of the meat, 6d.
Seasonable: at any time.

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