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1909

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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Cut’ the necks into three, the gizzards into four, and the pinions into two. Brown one-half Ib. of these giblets in a thick-bottomed stewpan with one oz. of butter. Sprinkle with one tablespoonful of flour; slightly colour the latter, and moisten with one quart of white consommé and one pint of water. Add a faggot containing one stick of celery, and set to cook gently for three hours. When the pieces of giblets are cooked, drain them, trim them, and put them into a stewpan with one dessertspoonful of parboiled rice and a heaped tablespoonful of the white of celery✪ Soupe aux Abatis de Volaille à l'Anglaise, minced and fried in butter. Strain the cooking-liquor of the giblets, through a strainer, over the enumerated garnishes; set to cook gently for another quarter of an hour; season strongly with pepper, and serve. 742—SOUPE AUX CERISES Stone two-thirds lb. of small, fleshy cherries, and put twenty aside for garnishing purposes. Put the others into a sugar- boiler with two-thirds pint of hot water, a small strip of lemon rind, and a fragment of cinnamon, and set to boil quickly for eight minutes. Also boil in another sugar-boiler one-half pint of Port or Bordeaux wine. Crush half of the cherry-stones in the mortar; put them into the boiled wine, and let them infuse, away from the fire. Rub the cooked cherries through a fine sieve; dilute the purée with the juice thickened by means of one tablespoonful of fecula moistened with cold water; add the cherries put aside for the garnish, and one-half tablespoonful of castor sugar✪ Soupe aux Cerises, and again set to boil for four minutes. Complete the preparation with the infusion strained through muslin; pour it into the soup-tureen, and add a few biscottes. For the sake of variety, lady’s-finger biscuits may be sub- stituted for the biscottes. 743—COCKY-LEEKI SOUP Set half a fowl to cook very gently in one and one-half pints of light and clear veal stock with a few aromatics. Also prepare a julienne of the white of three leeks✪ Cocky-Leeki Soup; stew this in butter without colouration, and complete the cooking thereof in the cooking-liquor of the fowl, strained and poured carefully away. SOUPS Ph aes Pour the preparation into the soup-tureen, and add the meat of the fowl, cut into a julienne. Sop Serve some stewed prunes separately, but this is optional. 744—SOUPE AUX FOIES DE VOLAILLE Make a roux from one and one-half oz. of butter and as much flour. When it has acquired a nice, light-brown colour, moisten it with one quart of white consommé or brown stock, and set to boil, stirring the while. Add one-half lb. of raw chickens’ livers rubbed through a sieve, and set to cook for fifteen minutes. Rub the whole through tammy; season strongly with pepper; heat, and com- plete the preparation, at the last moment, with one-quarter Ib. of sliced chickens’ livers, tossed in butter, and one wineglass of good Madeira✪ Soupe aux Foies de Volaille. 745—SOUPE JULIENNE DARBLAY Cook quickly in salted water twosmall, peeled, and quartered potatoes. Drain them, rub them through a fine sieve, and dilute the purée with one and one-half pints of white consommé. Add three tablespoonfuls of a julienne✪ Soupe Julienne Darblay made in accordance with the above recipe; heat, and finish the preparation with an ordinary leason and one and one-half oz. of butter. 746—MINESTRONE Brown the minced white of two small leeks and one-third of an onion, also minced, in one oz. of chopped, fresh breast of bacon, and one-half oz. of grated, fat bacon. Moisten with one and one-half pints of white consommé, and add one-third of a carrot, one-third of a turnip, half a stick of celery, two oz. of small cabbage, and one small potato, or one-half of a medium-sized one, all of which vegetables must be finely minced.