Mock Goose Recipe

Ingredients for Mock Goose

• 2 cups breadcrumbs
• 2 cups dropped black walnuts
• 2 cups boiled rice
• 6 hard-cooked eggs
• 3 raw eggs
• 1 tablespoon grated onion
• Salt, pepper and grated nutmeg to taste

Instructions

1. Put breadcrumbs in saucepan with 2 cups water; cook for a few minutes; add hard-cooked eggs, chopped; take saucepan from fire and add black walnut meats and the rice.
2. When this is well mixed, add raw eggs, slightly beaten, and seasonings.
3. Form this into shape of a goose, reserving portions for legs and wings.
4. Take a tablespoon of mixture in your hand and press it into shape of a leg; put piece of dry macaroni into it for bone and fasten it to goose.
5. Do other side same way.
6. Form remaining portions into small pieces looking like wings tucked under; press them to side of goose.
7. Brush goose over with melted vegetable shortening and bake for 1 hour.
8. Serve with apple sauce.