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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.
Quenelles de merlans, Joinville. — Quenelles made of whiting forcemeat, with shrimp salpicon in centre, poached in fish stock ; served with joinville sauce; fleuron garnish. Souffle de merlan.— Whiting souffle. Merluehe etouffee. — Steamed haddock cooked in the oven. — euite au four. — Haddock baked in the oven. Morue k la Capueine.— Boiled salt cod with egg sauce. — aux fines herbes. — Broiled salt cod with fine herb or parsley butter. Tete de morue aux huitres.— Boiled cod’s head with oyster sauce. Moules a la mariniere.— Stewed mussels with onion and parsley sauce. — a la Bourguignonne. — Stewed mussels in red wine sauce. — en eoquilles. — Scalloped mussels. — a la Californie (Mussels, California Style). — Stewed mussels with slightly fried sliced tomatoes, chopped onions, parsley, and veloute sauce. — a la poulette. — Stewed mussels in white sauce. Ombre au bleu.— Boiled grayling. — a la maitre d’hotel. — Broiled grayling with parsley butter. Petoneles gratines. — Scallop stew browned under grill. — au gratin. — Baked scallops, gratin style. — a la Proven§ale. — Scallops stewed in white fish sauce, garnished with fleurons of puff pastry. Plie frite. — Fried plaice. Filets de plie au vin blane. — Poached fillets of plaice with white wine sauce. — frites k la Tartare. — Fried fillets of plaice, tartare sauce. — Sauce persil. — Broiled fillets of plaice, parsley sauce. — frites, sauce anchois. — Fried fillets of plaice, anchovy sauce. Raie a la Parisienne.— Skate stewed in well- seasoned stock, dressed with capers and carlet sauce. 66 POISSONS (FISH) Raie k la poulette. — Skate stewed in parsley sauce. — ail beurre noir. — Boiled skate with nut brown butter. — & la bourgeoise. — Boiled skate with brown sauce, garnished with croutons of bread, glazed over with meat extract. Renke a la broche.— Grilled renk. RougetS a l’ltalienne. — Broiled red mullets with Italian sauce. — au beurre fondu.— Broiled mullets with melted butter. — en filets a la Juive. — Fillets of red mullets soaked in oil, etc., fried and garnished with parsley ; served with tartare or vert pre sauce. — aux fines herbes. — Stewed red mullets with fine herb sauce. — a la Franeillon. — Grilled red mullets, dressed on bread croutes spread with anchovy butter ; served with tomato sauce flavoured with anchovy ; garnished with fried straw potatoes and fried parsley. — au gpatin. — Baked red mullets, gratin style. — grilles, sauee ravigote.— Grilled mullets and ravigote sauce. — en papillotes (Red Mullets in Paper Cases). — Red mullets wrapped separately in oiled paper, with the ends twisted, and thus baked or broiled, dished up, and served with brown fine herb sauce. — a la Venitienne. — Baked red mullets with brown sauce ; garnished with Spanish olives, stuffed with fish forcemeat and mushroom heads. Saumon bouilli, sauce Hollandaise. — Boiled salmon, Dutch sauce. — grille au beurre d’anehois.— Grilled salmon with anchovy butter. — grille au persil. — Grilled salmon with parsley butter. — grille aux fines herbes.— Grilled salmon with fine herb butter. — & la Matelote. — Sauteed slices of salmon with espagnole sauce, poached fish quenelles, slices of mushrooms and truffles ; garnished with braised button onions, truffles, etc. — a la Parisienne. — Slices of salmon, cut rather thick, braised in mirepoix and claret ; dished up and garnished with groups of champignons, little fish croquettes, crayfish tails, and poached oysters ; sauce genoise is served with it.