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Practical gastronomy

1903

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Presented as published in 1903. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
— Nantua. — Rounds of toasted bread spread with green herb butter, stoned olives stuffed with anchovy placed in centre of each, with a prawn or crayfish tail. — de sardines. — Sardines on toast. Coquille de homard.— Scalloped lobster. Crabe aux ceufs a la Diable.— Curried crab and egg. — sur canapes k l’lndienne.— Curried crab on toast. — a la tomate.— Crab with tomato purde. Croustade de sardines au fromage.— Sardines in pastry crusts with grated cheese. Croutons d’anehois aux fines herbes.— Savoury anchovy paste on toast. — au fromage. — Anchovy fingers with cheese. — a l’lndienne. — Curried anchovies on toast. Croutes de merluche fume.— Smoked haddock mixed with bechamel sauce, cheese, and egg yolk, and heated ; spread on buttered toast and baked. Homard au gratin. — Baked lobster, gratin style. Huitres a FAmericaine. — Grilled oysters with tomatoes. — au beurre. — Broiled oysters in butter. — k la Colbert. — Marinated oysters, drained, egged, crumbed, and fried in sweet oil; served with sauce Colbert. — a l’Horly. — Marinated oysters dipped in frying batter and fried in deep fat ; garnished with slices of lemon and parsley ; sauce, tomato. — a l’ltalienne. — Soused or marinated oysters, drained and dipped in flour, and then in beaten seasoned eggs, fried in an omelette pan with clari- fied butter ; served with nut brown butter. — a la Villeroi. — Poached oysters in fish stock ; drained and coated with reduced bechamel sauce, then egged and crumbed, and fried in sweet oil ; garnished with lemon quarters and parsley. 1 194 MEAT SAVOURIES Huitres en brochettes.— Large oysters, bearded, dipped in oiled and seasoned butter and covered with fresh breadcrumbs, fastened on skewers, and grilled over the fire ; dressed with skewers stuck in bread croutons, and garnished with lemon slices and parsley. — en cassolettes. — Bearded oysters ranged in threes or fours in small buttered china cassolette or ramakin cases, seasoned, two or three prawn tails, with piquante demi-glace sauce added to each, and thus cooked in oven; served in the cassolette cases. — frites a la Diable. — Fried oysters devilled. — aux fines herbes. — Grilled oysters with savoury herb butter. — k la Normande. — Ragout of oysters, crayfish tails, and truffles, mixed with sauce normande, dressed in very small china casseroles, allowing one for each person. — SUP J>ain grille.— Oysters on toast. Les huitpes a eheval. — Oysters on horseback (rolled in bacon and grilled). Sardines a la Diable.— Devilled sardines. — aux ceufs poches. — Sardines with poached eggs. — Proven^ale. — Sardines on toast with egg sauce. Saumon fume k la Diable. — Smoked salmon devilled. — au gratin. — Baked salmon, gratin style. Meat Savouries. Batons de Caviar. — Baked puff paste fingers split open and filled with seasoned caviare. Beignets de gibier k la Diable.— Devilled game fritters. — de jambon.— Ham fritters. Brochettes de foie de volaille.— Chicken livers and bacon slices tossed in butter and fastened on little skewers, crumbed and broiled ; served with bearnaise sauce. Canapes k l’Arlequin. — Buttered toast decorated with strips of chopped tongue, smoked salmon, gherkins, truffles, and hard-boiled white of egg, arranged in lattice work fashion. — & la Coequeri. — A puree of chicken and ham and butter, spread on toasted or fried bread slices, covered with plenty of grated cheese, browned under salamander, and garnished with gherkins, capers, and beetroot.