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366 menus and 1200 recipes of the Baron Brisse in French and English

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Boil some laurel leaves, mixed herbs, heads of cloves, and whole black peppers, in very strong salt and water, pass through a tammy, and leave until cold. Singe and scrape the boar's head, be careful not to cut the skin, clean out the nostrils and ears with a hot iron, wash and bone the head, spread it out on. a table, cut off all the flesh, and divide it into narrow fillets. Put the empty head to soak in the brine. Soak the fillets and a few slices of the boar’s flesh in white wine, seasoned with onions carrots, herbs, salt, pepper, and mixed spice ; leave both head and fillets to soak for twenty-four hours, turn them occasionally, and when required for use, drain, dry, and spread them out on a table, with the inside of the head turned up- wards. Have some fillets of rabbit, breasts of chicken and partridge, two sliced pickled tongues, and sliced truffles ready prepared ; pound the carcases of the rabbits and birds in a mortar, with a few slices of veal and bacon ; spread a layer of this forcemeat on the head, and fill it up with the fillets of of boar, rabbit, chicken, partridge, tongue, and truffles ; if there are any interstices stop them up with forcemeat, sew up he head to its original shape, tie it up tightly in a cloth, and place in a braising-pan with mirepoix made with Madeïra ; when cooked, drain it, tie a broad tape round the head, over the snout, leave for twenty-four hours, after which cut off the tape, cover the head with lard, and sprinkle with grated bread- crust, THE 366 PBILLS OR FARE: 367 Béarnaise sauce. Stir five or six yolks of egg in a saucepan over a slow fire ; when quite thick add the same quantity of melted meat glaze as there are eggs, do not let it boil, flavour with the juice of two lemons, a few drops of vinegar, and the essence of seven or eight eschalots, which make by pounding them and squeez- ing the juice through a cloth; stir the sauce with a wooden spoon, and hand in a sauceboat. Curry sauce. Take three ounces of butter and a dessert-spoonful of curry powder, stir over the fire until the butter begins to brown, moisten with velouté sauce and stock ; ifyou have no velouté, use strong gravy ; reduce, skim off all grease, and warm in a _baïin-marie ; when ready to serve, stir in a lump of butter, and if not sufficiently highly seasoned add a pinch of cayenne pepper. INDEX. A. ALLEMANDE, or German sauce, 93. Almond butter, 245. Almond cake, 45, 276. Almond cream, 70. Almond toffee, 138. Almonds, green, à la d’Escars, 216. Anchovies, stuffed, 154. Anchovy butter, 96, 138: Anchovy omelet, 243. Anchovy sauce, 152. Apple Charlotte, 208. Apple fritters, 356. Apple fritters à la d'Orléans, 68. Apple open tart, 111. Apple pudding, 253. Apples, chartreuse or marmalade of, 62. Apples stewed with rice, 93, 130. Apples stewed, 50. Apricots broiled à la Breteuil, 181. Apricots, compote of ripe, 171. Apricots à la Condé, 194. Apricots, green, in compôte, 202. Apricot fritters with brandy, 94. Apricot fritters, 175. Apricot open tart à la Metternich, 172. Apricot tart à la bonne femme, 221. Artichokes à la bonne femme, 61. Artichokes, fried, 69. Artichokes with Italian sauce, 44. Artichokes à l'italienne, 51. Artichokes à la lyonnaise, 250. Artichokes, purée of, for soup, 47. Artichokes, purée of, 47. Artichokes stewed with essence of han, 148. Artichokes stuffed à la barigoule, 1, 82. Artichokes stuffed, 28r. Asparagus with butter sauce, 108. Asparagus chopped with cream, 157. Asparagus with cream, 90. Asparagus-heads stewed, 119. Asparagus with oil and vinegar, 74. Asparagus à la Pompadour, 144. Asparagus with white sauce, 66. Aspic of crayfish, 327. B. BABA, or rum cake, 186. Bacon omelet, 118. Bain-Marie, 219. Baked barbelwith Parmesan cheese, 162. Baked brill, 51, 85. Baked cardoons with bread-crumbs, T7