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
=Veau à la Suzette.=--Trim saddle of veal neatly and put it into a
saucepan with a good sized piece of butter. Turn it constantly on the
fire till it is a rich golden color all over, then put it onto a dish
and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add more butter to the gravy in the
saucepan and put in raw potatoes cut up in sections like oranges. Cover
the saucepan and cook, shaking frequently, till the potatoes have a good
color. Add an onion, finely minced, and when it is browned, a clove of
garlic, minced very fine; next put in a tablespoonful of flour followed,
when the flour is brown, by about two cupfuls of stock. Stir well and
put back the meat and any juice that may have oozed from it. Lastly add
a bouquet of herbs, simmer for an hour at least and serve the meat
surrounded by the potatoes with the sauce poured over the whole.
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Potage à l'Américaine
Filet d'Eglefin
Gigot de Mouton aux Épinards
Chou de Mer au Fromage
Petites Crèmes au Chocolat
=Potage à l'Américaine.=--Parboil a medium sized cauliflower in salted
water, change the water and boil till done. Drain well and press through
a sieve. Dilute with consommé or broth. Boil a few minutes more,
stirring well. Beat up in a basin the yolk of an egg with three
tablespoonfuls of cream, add this to a few tablespoonfuls of the
cauliflower mixture, then, taking the saucepan containing the soup from
the fire, add the egg and cream mixture and stir together. Add half an
ounce of butter and serve with croutons.
=Filet d'Eglefin.=--Cut a haddock into fillets, trimming into pieces
about six inches long. Dip them in well beaten egg and then into sifted
breadcrumbs and plunge into deep, well-boiling fat, frying to a rich
color, turning occasionally to cook both sides evenly. Remove, drain,
put on a cloth spread over a hot dish and serve with a simple white
sauce.
=Gigot de Mouton aux Épinards.=--Roast a small leg of mutton, putting
some salt and a small quantity of water at the bottom of the tin. When
half cooked, remove the meat and carefully skim the gravy of all fat.
Return the mutton to the tin, pour gravy over it and surround it with
potatoes cut to the size of walnuts. Put back in the oven, letting the
potatoes cook in the juice of the meat. Meanwhile cook about three
pounds of spinach, drain, squeeze out all water and pass through a
sieve. Return to a saucepan in which about two ounces of butter has been
heated and season with pepper and salt. Add a tablespoonful of gravy
from the mutton and allow the spinach to simmer till the meat is done.
Then pile the spinach with the potatoes about the meat and serve, having
the gravy in a sauceboat.
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