FoodNet

A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes

1914

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Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
/^UT up the fowl into neat pieces as for a saut6 dish, and cook it in butter under a cover ; then set the pieces in a very hot earthenware “ Cocotte ” dish, and lay upon them five ounces of raw truffles cut into thick slices and slightly salted and peppered. Swill the saute pan with a few tablespoonfuls of white wine ; add a little chicken stockPoulet Aux Truffes ; pour this liquor into the cocotte ; tho- roughly close the latter, and put it in a very hot oven for eight or ten minutes in the cocotte, and serve in this. 1 CHICKEN FRITTERS a boiled or roasted chicken into small ^ joints ; remove the skin and bones ; place the pieces in a deep dish ; sprinkle with salt and pepper, chopped parsley, a little oil and vinegar, and let them soak in this for an hour, or longer ; drain the pieces ; coat them well with frying batter and fry in hot fat ; drain carefully ; dish up, and garnish with fried parsley ; serve with a white sauce in a boat. Frying Batter is prepared as follows : — Sift four ounces of flour into a basin ; add half an ounce of oiled butter, a pinch of salt, the yolk 67 THE DUDLEY RECIPES of one egg and one tablespoonful of cream ; mix this well with a wooden spoon, and dilute gradu- ally with about half a gill of lukewarm water ; work it well until the paste becomes quite smooth. Allow it to stand for half an hour or more, and when you require to use some, whisk the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth and mix gently. The batter is then ready for use. If intended for fruit fritters, add a teaspoonful of castor sugar ; if for fish or meat, a few drops of lemon juice added to the batter will be found to be an improvement. A thinnish batter is preferable to a thick one. POULET SAUTE MARENGO /^\NE good-sized tender white chicken, one gill of best salad oil, one gill of brown Espagnol sauce, one gill of tomato sauce, one shallot, one glass of Marsala, eight fresh, or preserved, mush- rooms, two truffles, salt, pepper, four eggs and slices of fried bread. Cut the chicken into eight neatly trimmed joints and put them into a saute pan with the oil ; fry quickly, to slightly brown the outside of the chicken ; then add the shallot, finely chopped. Pour off the oil into a smaller stewpan ; then add the two kinds of sauce, the mushrooms and truffles, both being cut into slices. Put the cover 68 POULTRY AND GAME DISHES on the pan ; season with pepper and salt, and set it in the oven to stew for about forty minutes. Fry the eggs in the oil (they must be shaped like poached eggs, not flat) ; arrange the pieces of chicken neatly on a dish with the eggs ; lay the mushrooms and truffles round. Strain over the sauce, previously freed from fat, and serve with cutlet-shaped pieces of fried bread laid round the dish. Some cocks’ combs can be added to the mushrooms and truffles, and cooked with them, if liked. a FRIED CHICKEN PEMBROKE /^\NE fowl, a mirepoix consisting of bacon, carrot, onion, bay leaf, two cloves and savoury herbs, one pint of stock, two ounces of butter, half an ounce of flour, one glass of white wine, the yolks of three eggs, one whole egg, lemon juice, breadcrumbs, seasoning, frying fat and parsley. Chicken Fritters