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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.
Potage à la purée de marrons. Purée of chestnuts. Filets de merlans au gratin. Baked fillets of whiting with bread- crumbs. Haricot de mouton, Haricot of mutton. Tambon à la broche. Roast ham. ppinards au jus. Stewed spinach. Soufflé de riz. Rice soufflé. Puree of chestnuts. Peel sixty chestnuts, scald them in boiling water, remove the inside skin, and boil in stock, when done, pass through a tammy, add sufficient stock to make the soup a proper substance, and pour over slices of fried breadPurée of Chestnuts. Serve very hot. : Baked fillets of whiting with bread-crumbs. Line the bottom of a tin or plated dish with fish forcement (see6th of April), lay your fillets on it and cover them with a layer of the same forcemeat, smooth over with the blade of a knife warmed in hot water, sprinkle with grated bread-crust, moisten with fresh melted butterBaked Fillets of Whiting with Breadcrumbs and bake, when done pour some Italian sauce over it (see 13th of October). Artichokes, Italian sauce. Trim the artichokes, remove the chokes, cut into four pieces, blanch, and drain. Boil in equal quantities of white wine and stock, season with salt, pepper, lemon juice, and a little butter, when done, drain and serve, covered with Italian sauce (see 13th of October). THE 366 BILILS OF FARE. 45 FEBRUARY 14. Potage iulienne. Julienne soup. Surmulet au beurre fondu. Grey mullet, melted butter. Tendrons de veau au blanc. Tendons of veal, white sauce. Gigot de mouton rôti. Roast leg of mutton. Navets glacés au jus. Stewed turnips. Gâteau d'amandes. Almond cake. Grey mullet with melted butter. Broil the mullet, and pour fresh melted butter with chopped parsley, pepper, and salt over it. Tendons of veal with white sauce. Prepare the tendons in the same way as breast of veal (see 16th of December). Stewed turnips. Peel the turnips all to one size, blanch, and drain ; butter a saucepan large enough for the turnips to lay side by side, place them on the butter and moisten with stock, flavour with salt, a little powdered sugar, and a stick of cinnamon ; as soon as they begin to boil, cover with a sheet of buttered paper, take the saucepan off the fire, place it near the oven and put hot coals on the cover, when suffciently cooked uncover the saucepan and leave the turnips until glazed ; when cold place them on a dish, melt the glaze with a little stock, take out the cinnamon, and pour this sauce over the turnips. Almond cake. Mix two pints of flour with a piece of fresh butter the size of an egg, a pinch of salt, four eggs, five ounces of powdered sugar, seven ounces of well-powdered almondsAlmond Cake; when well mixed place in a mould and bake ; when done, ice the cake with pink icing sugar. 46 THE 366 BILLS OF FARE. FEBRUARY 15. Potage Faubonne. Faubonne soup. Noix de veau à la chicorée, Chump of veal with chicory. Lapereau sauté. Stewed rabbit, Limandes frites. Fried dabs. Champignons farcis. Stuffed mushrooms, Crème au chocolat, Choctolate cream. Chump of veal with chicory. Make an incision half an inch deep, lengthways and across the skin of the chump ; trim the other side of the veal so as to make it quite smooth and lard it; place in a stew-pan with some carrots, onions, a bouquet of parsley, and a little stock, simmer until the bottom of the saucepan is coloured, add one pound of meat, moisten with a little water and stock, cook over a slow fire with hot coals on the cover, or in the oven; when three- quarters done remove the vegetables and bouquet, which will have suffciently flavoured the meat and would only absorb the gravy. Make a larger fire and moisten the veal with its own juice until it is glazed, which will take about half-an-hour. Take all the fat off the sauce and pass through a tammy. Make a foundation of purée of chicory or sorrel (see 23rd ot December) on a dish, place the chump on ït, and cover with the sauce. Fried dabs.