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The new practical cookery guide

1913

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Presented as published in 1913. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Maupassant — Matelotte chaudfroid sauce over poached eggs on croutes, pink aspic garnish. Monstrueux — A huge egg, made with several yolks, cooked into a ball to form the centre, and a quantity of whites with the ball of yolk in centre, placed in an egg mould and cooked, thus forming a monstrous egg. Mosa'ique — Done in aspic, mould decorated with squares of truffe tongue, French beans, white of hard eggs mosaic style, Russian salad round. Moscovite — Mayonnaise sauce over hard halved eggs, on cucumber croustades with caviar, decorated, aspic roundMoscovite. Nantua — Hard eggs stuffed with crayfish or prawns, creamed with the yolk and mayonnaise, masked with pink mayonnaise, served on fonds, decorate with truffe and prawns. Ni$oise — Masked with tomato chaudfroid sauce and tarragon, served on fonds of vegetable salad. Polignac — Eggs moules polignac done in aspic, garnish. k 2 132 The New Practical Cookery Guide. Bavigotte — Poached eggs masked with Ravigotte sauce, served with beetroot and celery saladBavigotte. Peine — White chaudfroid sauce over poached eggs, served on mousse of chicken fonds, decorated truffe and aspic. Possita — Masked with lobster chaudfroid sauce, served on puree of fish fonds, garnished with tomato antiboise. Bubens — Poached eggs masked with white chaudfroid sauce, decorated, garnished with salad of young hop-shoots and tomatoes. Russe — Masked with Russian mayonnaise on fond of agoursis (Russian cucumber), decorated with fennel, served with Russian salad round. Viveurs — Eggs mollet, masked with pink mayon- naise, served with potato and lobster salad. Volga — Farced with the creamed yolk mixed with dice of anchovies, crayfish, or prawns, and remoulade, dressed on round croutes. Waldimir — Masked with mayonnaise sauce, served on croustades of creamed asparagus, decorated. OMELETTES. To make a perfect omelette requires practice, a good omelette pan, and a good fire. The eggs should not be overbeaten, sparingly seasoned. The garnish is added either in the beaten eggs as for Aux fines lierbes, or folded in the omelette previous to turning it out on the dish, or else placed in the centre of the ready omelette by an incision cut on top a few inches lengthwise, as occasion requires. In some cases a little cream is added to the beaten eggs. Omelettes. 133 Agnes Sorel — Sliced mushrooms sauteed and lie inside the omelette, jus lie round, slices of tongue on top. Algerienne — Served with sauteed aubergine, tomatoes and fonds in centre. Americaine — With chopped ham, eschalots, tomatoes, and parsley, a little cream mixed with eggs. Andalouse — Served with sauteed onions, tomatoes and mushrooms in centre. Archiduc — Centre filled with sauteed chicken’s liver, slice of truffes on top of omelette, jus lie round. Argenteuil — Served with asparagus pointes, lie butter in centre, and veloute round. Arlequin — Four small omelettes — one tomato mixed, one spinach, one truffe, and one cream, tomato sauce round. Benedicts — Served with puree of salt cod and cream with chopped truffe inside, cream sauce round. Bohemienne — Mixed with dice of ham and truffe, jus lie. Bonne femme — Mixed with dice of fried bacon, onions ; and croutes, and little cream. Boulonnaise — Mixed with dice of mackerel, maitre d’hotel round. Bourguignonne — Mixed with fines herbes, and served with stewed escargots inside. Braconniere — Mixed with dice of fried bacon and morels. Bretonne — Mixed with chopped onion, leek, and mushroom.