Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them — John Shaqi
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
=Salade Française.=--Chop fine a bunch of parsley, two small onions and
six anchovies. Lay them in a bowl and mix with salt and mustard to
taste, two tablespoonfuls of salad oil and a gill of vinegar. Stir all
well together and then add, one at a time, some very thin strips of cold
roasted or boiled meat, not more than three or four inches long. Shake
the slices well in the dressing. Cover the bowl closely and allow to
stand for at least three hours. Serve garnished with parsley.
=Pommes de Terre, Lyonnaise.=--Cut into round slices eight boiled
potatoes, lay them in a frying pan with an ounce and a half of butter
and the slices of a partly cooked onion. Season with salt and pepper and
cook till the potatoes become well browned, tossing all the while. Serve
with chopped parsley sprinkled over.
=Crème à la Russe.=--Put into a saucepan a pint of milk, half a pound of
lump sugar, the grated rind of two lemons and an ounce of gelatine,
previously soaked in water. Cook till the sugar dissolves over a slow
fire, then allow the mixture to cool somewhat before stirring in the
yolks of two eggs, unbeaten. Place on the fire to curdle. Strain, and
when cool add the juice of the two lemons and the whites of the eggs
beaten stiffly. Stir all well together and pour into a wet mould. Turn
out when well set.
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Potage Napolitaine
Truites à la Monbarry
Croquettes de Pommes de Terre
Celeri-rave en Salade
Pouding aux Figues
=Potage Napolitaine.=--Boil in strong bouillon small forcemeat balls
made of any left-over game or meat. Then soak croutons in the same
bouillon. Add the forcemeat balls and serve.
=Truites à la Monbarry.=--Prepare several trout and lay them in a pan
with a quarter pound of butter and some strong spices. Allow to heat
slowly in an open oven and when the butter is entirely melted, drop on
the trout two well beaten yolks of eggs. Grate cheese over this and
cover all with a quantity of fine breadcrumbs. Brown lightly in a hot
oven and serve.
=Croquettes de Pommes de Terre.=--Boil and drain about two and a half
pounds of potatoes. Add a generous quantity of butter, yolks of two
eggs, salt and pepper and the white of the eggs beaten to a snow. Beat
the whole up briskly, shape the mixture into balls and fry in a pan.
=Celeri-rave en Salade.=--Trim carefully a bunch of celery, leaving on
as much of the root as possible. Cut in half and boil in salted water
till tender. Then trim into even sticks and season it very piquantly
with French mustard, a few young onions, pepper, salt and finely chopped
parsley. Garnish with lettuce-leaves and slices of beet.
=Pouding aux Figues.=--Mix in a large bowl a cupful of breadcrumbs, half
a cup of farina, a pinch of salt, a cup of suet, cut fine, a cup of
powdered sugar, a minced carrot and a cup and a half of chopped figs.
Grease a baking mould, line it with whole figs, and empty the mixture
into it. Cook for four hours, the pan standing in water. Serve hot with
a rum sauce.
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