Home · Recipes · Historical Cookbook · Meat Dishes of All Kinds

Baked Calves' Feet à la Geistensterz

4 servings

Ingredients

• cooked calves' feet (a little)
• egg (a little)
• grated white bread (a little)
• butter (a little)
• flour (a little)
• onions (a little)
• vinegar (a little)
• red wine (a little)
• mustard (a little)
• pickled cucumbers or capers (a little)

Instructions

1. Cook the calves' feet as described previously, remove them from the bones, coat them in egg and grated white bread, and fry them until golden in hot butter.
2. Brown flour and butter with onions, then add some of the broth in which the feet were cooked, along with a little vinegar, red wine, mustard, and sliced pickled cucumbers or capers, and cook together until the cucumbers are soft.
3. When serving, add some sauce under the calves' feet and serve the rest on the side.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.