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
=Potage à la Chicorée.=--Pick carefully and wash two or three heads of
chicory, cut into shreds and pass through a little heated butter without
allowing to take color. Then add sufficient of the water in which the
Pommes Maire (below) were boiled to make the required quantity of soup,
add pepper and salt, simmer for an hour. Just after taking from the fire
add the beaten yolk of an egg. Pour into the tureen over toasted slices
of stale bread.
=Allumettes d'Anchois.=--Make a fritter paste with flour and oil,
omitting salt. Soften with white wine. Wash the desired number of
anchovies, remove the bones and draw out the salt by soaking in milk.
Dip into the paste and fry.
=Bœuf Bouilli en Vinaigrette.=--Cut cold, lean beef into narrow, thin
slices. Place it in a bowl with a finely chopped onion and some chervil,
a few cut-up gherkins, a teaspoonful of capers, pour oil, a little
vinegar and the juice of half a lemon over, add pepper and salt, toss
well together and serve at once.
=Pommes Maire.=--Use "kidney" potatoes if procurable; if not, ordinary
potatoes of small size. Boil in salt water and peel while still hot,
then cut in thick chips and place in a casserole and cover with boiling
milk. Season with pepper and salt and allow to boil, turning with a fork
till the milk has boiled away. Remove from the fire, pour over a cup of
rich milk, season again and serve.
=Salade de Tomates.=--Cut a pound of not too ripe tomatoes into one
inch cubes, add salt, pepper, vinegar and oil to taste and then toss
together with a minced onion. Serve right away. If desired, cold boiled
beef in dainty slices may be added.
=Crème Brulée.=--Blend a tablespoonful of flour with the yolks of three
eggs and place in a casserole. Pour slowly in a pint or more of milk,
add a pinch of cinnamon, a few drops of extract of lemon or any flavor
desired, and stir constantly over the fire. When the cream is cooked,
make a caramel sauce in a porcelain pot by melting five or six lumps of
sugar and cooking to the browning point. Pour this into a serving dish,
pour the cream over it and allow to cool.
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Bisque d'Herbes
Turbot à la Rachel
Choufleur au Gratin
Salade Barbe de Capucin
Gâteau de Frangipane
=Bisque d'Herbes.=--Chop together about a handful each of lettuce,
sorrel, spinach, also a small onion, a little celery and some chervil
and cook all with an egg-sized piece of butter for fifteen minutes,
stirring constantly. Then add three tablespoonfuls of flour made smooth
with a little stock, stir in four cupfuls of the cauliflower water
(which you will have from a recipe following) into which has been beaten
the yolk of an egg. Serve very hot with croutons.
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