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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.
— a la Mayonnaise. — Fillets of soles set in border mould with mayonnaise aspic, centre filled with dressed salad. — a la Messaline. — Fillets of soles poached in champagne, dressed and sauced over with tomato sauce flavoured with Italian pimentos; garnished with artichoke bottoms. — a la MontPeuil. — Fillets of soles cooked in white wine, dressed in a circle, with fried potato balls in centre ; fillets sauced over with veloute sauce, enriched with fish essence. — a la Mornay. — Baked fillets of soles, dressed on dish with rich white sauce and grated cheese ; browned under salamander. — a la Nantua. — Fillets of soles poached in white wine, dressed on rice or semolina border, and sauced over with allemande sauce flavoured with crayfish butter, centre filled with prawn or crayfish tails, heated up in allemande sauce. — a l’OPly (Fillets of Sole, Orly Style). — Fried fillets of soles with tomato sauce and fried parsley. — Pagani. — A dish similar to sole au vin blanc, finished with a rich veloute ; garnished with mussels, champignons, and grated cheese, browned. — a la Piemontaise.— Fillets of soles with tomato sauce ; garnished with polenta croutons and slices of truffles. — en Ramequin.— Rings of pastry filled with layer of white sauce, fillets of soles, soubise pur£e and grated cheese, etc, baked in sharp oven. 72 POISSONS {FISH) Filets de Soles k la Regence. — Stuffed rolled fillets of sole, masked in aspic, dished up in form of border, each fillet being decorated with truffles and cream, salad in centre. — k la Roy ale. — Rolled fillets of soles, stuffed with minced truffles and champignons and bechamel sauce ; steamed in oven ; served with hot mousseline or hollandaise sauce. — k la Salisbury.— Lobster shells filled with sole and lobster forcemeat and veloute sauce, with folded fillets of soles on top of each ; steamed in oven ; dressed on rice border ; garnished with button mushrooms. — a la Sezet. — Fillets of soles stewed in bechamel and tomato sauce, flavoured with anchovy butter ; garnished with small lobster croquettes, truffles, anchovy fillets and mushroom heads. — SOUffle. — Fillets of soles set in dish, covered with mornay sauce and beaten egg whites, and baked. — k la Suetone. — Fillets of soles, folded, and poached in the oven with butter and white wine ; sauced over with normande sauce, flavoured with pounded pistachio kernels ; garnished with small shells of prawns or shrimps and pistachios. — a la Sully . — Fillets of soles egged and crumbed, slightly fried in butter, dressed with mushroom head on each fillet, sauced over with bearnaise, and around with anchovy sauce. — a la Trouville. — Folded fillets, seasoned, broiled in saute pan with white wine and mushroom liquor, dressed with mushrooms, oysters, fresh bread- crumbs and white sauce ; surface browned in oven. — a la V6nitienne. — Folded fillets of soles poached in white wine, butter and parsley ; dressed in circle, centre garnished with mushroom heads, sauced with hollandaise sauce. — a la Victoria. — Folded fillets of soles cooked with a little white wine, dressed on border of mashed potatoes, previously browned in oven ; sauced over with white wine sauce ; garnished with chopped truffle and tongue and small fleurons of puff paste. — k la Xavier. — Baked fillets of soles tied in knots, dressed on a border of whiting forcemeat, covered with hot Xavier sauce ; liquid meat glaze sprinkled over surface.