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 Printanière.=--Cut two carrots and one turnip into shapes
with a vegetable scoop, simmer for twenty minutes in salted water, drain
and place in a quart of the water in which the potatoes (in this same
menu) were boiled. Add a handful of chiffonade, cook five minutes and
serve.
=Paupiettes de Veau.=--Cut thin cutlets from a fillet of veal and beat
them flat and even. Also mince a small quantity of the veal very fine,
mix it with some of the kidney fat, also minced fine, and half a dozen
minced anchovies, adding a little salt, ginger and powdered mace. Place
this mixture over the slices of veal and roll them up. Beat up an egg,
dip the rolled slices in it and then in sifted breadcrumbs. Let them
stand for fifteen or twenty minutes, egg them again, roll in breadcrumbs
and fry to a golden brown in boiling lard or clarified dripping, or stew
them in some rich gravy with half a pint of white wine and a small
quantity of walnut pickle.
=Pommes de Terre, Maître d'Hôtel.=--Cut up carefully selected,
underboiled and cold potatoes in rather thick slices. Dredge half a
tablespoonful of flour in a saucepan with a lump of butter and when
smooth add gradually a cupful of broth, stirring till it boils. Place in
the potatoes along with a tablespoonful of chopped parsley and pepper
and salt. Stew for three or four minutes, remove the pan to the side of
the fire and add quickly the yolk of an egg previously well beaten with
a teaspoonful of cold water and a little lemon juice. When the egg has
become thickened, turn the potatoes with their sauce on a flat dish and
serve.
=Salade de Laitue.=--Select fine lettuces, remove the coarse outer
leaves, wash and wipe, place in a salad bowl and sprinkle over a
tablespoonful of chopped chives, half a teaspoonful each of chopped
chervil and tarragon. Season with a pinch of salt, half a teaspoonful of
pepper, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar and a tablespoonful and a half of
oil. Mix thoroughly and serve.
=Feuillantines.=--Prepare some puff paste; roll out to about a third of
an inch thick and cut into strips an inch wide and two inches long.
Spread a baking dish thick with butter, arrange the pieces of paste on
it, placing them upon their sides and leaving a small space between
them. Put them in the oven and when they are firm and their sides have
spread, glaze them with white of egg and dust with powdered sugar. As
the feuillantines are cooked set them on paper and drain off any extra
grease. Now mask them separately with small quantities of different
colored jams. Arrange on fancy edged dish-paper or a folded napkin on a
dish and serve.
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MENU
Potage Crème d'Orge
Bœuf à la Mode
Pommes de Terre, Sautées
Salade de Romaine
Soufflé au Chocolat
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