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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.
and poach for twenty minutes in good veal stock and allow them to cool in this. When they are quite cold, dry them and dip them, so as to veneer them all over, in a good brown Chaud-froid sauce, prepared with quail essence. Remove the excess of sauce from around the quails ; set them in a square, deep dish ; cover them with very good clear aspic jellyChaud-Froid of Quails in Aspic and place them in a refrigerator until they are required. A salad of grapes can be served with these quails, if liked. COLD QUAILS f 1 1AKE some very fat quails and cook them very lightly in veal consomme. Allow them to cool in the liquor ; then drain carefully and when quite cold, arrange them neatly on a flat dish and serve with them some cold mayonnaise Farquhar sauce, and either cucumber salad or a cold salad of mixed vegetables. CHAUD-FROID OF QUAIL f 1 1AKE six large, fat quailsCold Quails and remove the -L breast -bone without breaking the skin. Pre- pare a forcemeat of quail which has been pounded with a small pot of foie gras. Fill each bird with the mixture with the aid of a piping bag, close well 172 COLD DISHES and sew to keep the birds in good shape, or wrap in little squares of muslin. Poach them for twenty minutes in some good veal stock and the fat from the foie gras pot, together with some finely chopped carrot, onion, parsley, thyme and bay leaf. Poach gently and leave the birds in the liquor until cold. Remove and wipe free of all moisture ; dish with aspic jelly in little heaps round dish, and with the following macedoine of vegetables served in separate dish, or in centre of dish with the quails : — Some small carrots, peas, points of asparagus, French beans cut into dice, a little potato, or any other kind of vegetable at hand. These should be cooked separately until tender, so that each vegetable should retain its colour ; add black pepper, salt and a small quantity of oil and vinegar. Some sharp Mayonnaise sauce should be served in a boat, flavoured with onion or horse- radish. % RAISED GAME PIE and a half pounds of flour, one and a half gills of milk, six ounces of butter, the yolk of an egg, pepper, salt, cayenne, nutmeg, one pound of veal, one pound of fresh pork, all kinds of game, such as pheasant, grouse or pigeons, larks or else quails — some of each — a quarter of a 173 THE DUDLEY RECIPES pound of ham, liver farce or foie gras, one table- spoonful of chopped mushrooms, one tablespoonful of chopped truffles, one teaspoonful of chopped parsley and pistachios, half a pint of good stock and chopped aspicRaised Game Pie. Make a paste of the flour, mixing the butter and milk into it hot ; add the yolk of egg and a little salt ; mix and knead well. Line a raised pie-mould with this paste, about a quarter of an inch thick. Mince the veal and pork together ; season with salt, pepper, cayenne and nutmeg. Place this mince all round the mould inside the paste ; fill in the centre with fillets of pigeon and pheasant or grouse, or else use strips of ham, larks and quails stuffed with liver farce. Sprinkle over the chopped mushrooms, truffles, pistachios and parsley, and a little pepper and salt ; cover over with some of the mince ; wet the paste round and lay on the top cover ; close it well round the edge ; trim it ; and work up the trimmings of paste to make an ornament for the top.