Mock Terrapin In The Chafing-Dish Recipe ingredients

To prepare this Mock Terrapin In The Chafing-Dish Recipe, first take the dark meat of a chicken cooked the day previous and half a pound of calf's liver; put together in the chafing- dish, add two cloves of garlic, one small onion sliced, two stalks of celery; cover with boiling water and cook twenty minutes. Take out and cut into dice. Cleanse the chafing-dish and put in a quarter of a pound of butter; while the butter is melting, take the yolks of two hard-cooked eggs, mash to a smooth paste, adding gradually a cup of cream. Add a tablespoon of flour to the butter, mix and add the cream and eggs, stir constantly until it reaches the boiling point, then add meat, a teaspoon of salt, a dash of cayenne and just a suspicion of mace. Serve hot on rounds of buttered toast.