Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve ThemMoore, Cora
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Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them
Moore, Cora
Cooking, French
=Cabillaud à la Bechamel.=--Mix an ounce of flour with an ounce and a
half of butter melted in a saucepan, then gradually add a pint of milk
which has been allowed previously to simmer with a minced onion and
carrot in it, also a bunch of sweet herbs, two or three cloves, a
grating of nutmeg and pepper and salt. Bring to a boil, add two or three
tablespoonfuls of cream, strain and put back into the saucepan. Now put
in two or three pounds of cod, previously boiled and flaked, being
thoroughly free from skin and bones. Shake all together very gently and
when all is thoroughly hot, turn out onto a silver dish and garnish with
sliced hard-boiled eggs.
=Pommes de Terre, Genevoise.=--Shred four medium sized boiled potatoes,
season with a little salt and pepper. Butter lightly half a dozen
tartlet moulds, cover the bottoms with grated Parmesan cheese, arrange
in each a layer of potatoes, then another sprinkling of cheese, and so
on till the moulds are filled. Put a little butter on top. Place on a
very hot stove or in a very hot oven for fifteen minutes to half an
hour. Serve on a hot dish in the moulds.
=Salade Celeri.=--Trim two or three heads of celery, cut into short
shreds, wash thoroughly in cold water and drain. Place in a salad bowl,
season with a little salt, a very little pepper and one or two
tablespoonfuls each of oil and vinegar. Add several sprigs of
pepper-grass and serve at once.
=Pouding à la Vanille.=--Place a vanilla bean in a mortar together with
half a pound of sugar and pound well together and sift. Separate the
whites from the yolks of three eggs, beat the yolks well, stir them in
with a pint of cream and mix in with the vanilla sugar. Whisk the whites
of the eggs to a stiff froth and mix lightly in with the other
ingredients. Butter a pudding mould, pour in the mixture and cover with
a sheet of oiled paper. Stand the mould in a saucepan of boiling water
and steam the pudding for half an hour. In the meantime prepare the
following sauce: Pour a breakfast cupful of canned or fresh pineapple
juice into a lined pan with the juice of a lemon. Put this on the fire
till it boils, then pour it over a tablespoonful of arrowroot, stirring
all the time. Return the sauce to the saucepan and stir till it thickens
over the fire. When the pudding is cooked, turn it out onto a hot dish,
strain the sauce over it and serve. Be careful that no water enters the
mould containing the pudding while it is cooking, or it will be
spoiled.
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Consommé à la Napolitaine
Cabillaud à la Financière
Pommes de Terre en Rubans
Beignets à la Printemps
Choufleur au Gratin
Bavaroise au Café
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