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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.
— Olga . — Clarified chicken broth with julienne strips of chicken breast, ox-tongue and truffles, also green peas. — d’OrleanS (Maigre Soup). — A rich clarified fish stock, garnished with small fish quenelles and green peas. — au Pain de Foie. — Clear soup with small liver quenelles. — aux Pates d’ltalie. — Clear soup with Italian paste. — a la Paysanne (Peasant Soup). — A clear gravy soup, with carrots, cabbages, leeks, turnips and lettuces cut into dice. — aux Petits Choux fareis. — Clear soup, gar- nished with small choux paste fritters, stuffed with forcemeat. — aUX Petits Navets. — Clear soup, with olive- shaped young turnips, braised. — Petites Marmites a la Parisienne. — A rich clear beef broth, garnished with boiled beef and soup vegetables, served in separate earthenware soup pots (marmites) ; crusts of bread are handed round. — Pierre le Grand. — A clear soup, with lettuce, turnips, celery and champignons (preserved mush- rooms) cut into julienne-shaped strips. — aux Pointes d’Asperges. — A clear soup, gar- nished with asparagus points. — a la PortUgaise. — A rich clear soup, garnished with stoned French plums, strips of leeks and ripe tomatoes. 38 POT AGES Consomme Pot au Feu (the National French Soup). — A clear beef and veal soup, with onions, carrots, turnips and celery, and small rounds of toasted bread. -- k la Printaniere (Spring Soup).— A clear gravy soup, garnished with finely-cut spring vegetables. — Printaniere aux Quenelles.— Clear soup with poached chicken forcemeat quenelles and macedoine of spring vegetables. — Prineesse. — Clarified chicken broth, garnished with small cube-shaped chicken quenelles (stamped out) and asparagus points. — aux Profiterolas.— Clear soup with a kind of very small cheese paste fritter. — aux Quenelles frites. — Clear soup, garnished with very small choux paste quenelles, fried. — aux Queues de Bceuf.— Clear ox-tail soup. — a la Rachel. — A richly flavoured clear soup, with small chicken quenelles, dice of tongue and truffles. — a la Ramboule. — Clear chicken soup, garnished with stamped-out rounds of poached chicken que- nelle meat and young green peas. — aux Ravioli. — A clear soup made with chicken and veal stock, with little round nouille paste shapes stuffed with forcemeat (poached). — au riz. — Clear soup garnished with plain boiled rice. — a la Renaissance. — Clear soup with sliced white mushrooms, green peas, rice, and small cheese croutons (separate). — a la Royale. — Clear soup with poached egg custard, called royal, cut into cube, dice, round, diamond, or other fancy shapes. — des Rois. — A rich chicken stock, clarified, gar- nished with julienne strips of quail fillets, truffles, and asparagus points. Parmesan croutons handed separately. — a la Russe (Russian Gravy Soup). — A clear soup with finely-cut slices of carrots, beetroot, celery and leeks, flavoured with beetroot juice. — St. Saens. — Delicately flavoured chicken con- somme, garnished with fine pearl barley and small dice of black-skinned potatoes known as pommes de tcrve negvesse. — au Sagem (Sago Soup). — A clear soup with sago. — Solferino. — A clear soup with carrots, turnips and potatoes, cut out with a small round vegetable sepop, termed in French d la culiere. — au Semoule. — Clear soup with evenly-grained semolina cooked in it. SOUPS 39 Consomme k la Sarah Bernhardt.— Rich chicken consomme, garnished with small chicken quenelles, crayfish tails, fine tapioca, and tiny bits of blanched beef marrow.