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
=Turbot à la Rachel.=--Boil the fish in salted water. Whitefish or
haddock will serve as well as turbot. Make the following sauce: Smooth
and brown together two tablespoonfuls of flour and two ounces of butter
and stir in five gills of water in which the fish was boiled, adding a
teaspoonful each of anchovy essence and mushroom catsup. Remove from the
fire and beat in the yolks of two eggs and the juice of one lemon. Color
with liquid carmine or a few drops of cochineal and pour over the fish.
=Choufleur au Gratin.=--Dip the cauliflower into ice water, then plunge
it into boiling salted water to cook fifteen minutes. Cut a slice off
the stalk, remove the leaves, lay on a flat dish and cover with a cream
sauce. Sprinkle with grated breadcrumbs and grated Parmesan cheese,
brown in the oven and serve.
=Salade Barbe de Capucin.=--Lay the stalks of American endive in a dish
and cut into small pieces a medium shallot. Mix, add a French dressing
and sprinkle with finely chopped tarragon leaves.
=Gâteau de Frangipane.=--Whisk together a quarter of a pound of powdered
sugar and the whites of three eggs, then beat in three tablespoonfuls of
milk, the grated peel of a lemon and a dash of salt. Then stir in half a
pound of flour. Bake in patty tins and when done scoop a piece out of
the top of each patty and fill with jam. Then pour over a sauce made as
follows: Put two wineglassfuls of white wine into a small saucepan and
stir in a cupful of orange marmalade with the juice of a lemon. Thicken
with a little corn-starch.
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Potage Bisque
Canard à la Pertinset
Pommes de Terre à la Crème
Choufleur au Beurre Noir
Salade de Lentilles
Pêches au Vin
=Potage Bisque.=--Boil as many crabs as are needed in water, adding
salt, pepper, two good sized onions and equal quantities of carrots and
chives. Remove the crabs and take the meat from the claws. Mash the
vegetables until they form a purée and add a good sized lump of butter.
Place over the fire with water or bouillon and allow to come to a boil.
Serve very hot with croutons and the meat from the crab claws.
=Canard à la Pertinset.=--Place a carefully prepared duck in a casserole
and dredge it with a lump of melted butter, add two onions, one clove,
a dash of garlic. Put in the oven but do not allow the onions to become
too brown before removing the duck. Then add five or six tomatoes, one
glass of white wine, a glass of bouillon, a few cloves and a bayleaf.
Let this boil over a low fire, then mash the tomatoes and onions, put
back the duck into the casserole and boil for forty minutes.
=Pommes de Terre à la Crème.=--Put into a casserole a lump of butter, a
pinch of flour, salt and pepper, nutmeg and a young onion. Mix well and
add a cup of rich milk. Place on the fire, stir constantly, and remove
as soon as the mixture comes to a boil. Meanwhile boil as many potatoes
as are required in salted water. Peel and cut into slices, add to the
sauce and serve.
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