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1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take three pounds of turbot and cut into cutlets of equal size. Fry the cutlets carefully in salad oil into which has been minced a very small quantity of parsley and onion. When cooked, arrange the cutlets en couronne and cover each with a sauce differing in taste and colour, such as Dutch green sauce, tomato sauce, white sauce, and yellow cream sauce. Turbot a la H61oi'se Choose a thick chicken turbot, make an incision in the side as if you were going to divide the thick- ness like a pocket; make a stuffing with chopped lobster and cream, a few drops of anchovy sauce, and a sprinkling of cayenne ; insert the stuffing in the incision. Then, after rubbing the outside with salt, put the fish into the fish-kettle, with sufficient boiling water to cover it. Let it boil up again, then draw the fish-kettle to one side to simmer very slowly till done. When done, drain it from the water, sprinkle FISH 43 lobster coral over the white side, garnish with parsley and lemon, and serve iced lobster sauce in a tureen. Turbot k la Mosai'que Take three pounds of turbot or brill, cut it into small neat cutlets of equal size. Brown them in the best salad oil, in which put a very little minced parsley and onion. Great care and attention is re- quired for the frying of the cutlets, as they require to be constantly turned till cooked. When cooked, each cutlet is covered with a different sauce in taste and colour. This is a very pretty dish if the cutlets are tastefully arranged. It is best cold and garnished with pale aspic. The following sauces are best suited to serve with it : — Sauce piquante (brown). Dutch green sauce. Tomato sauce. Red caper sauce. Yellow cream sauce. Whiting k la Russe Take in weight a pound of whiting without skin or bones, pound and pass through a sieve ; take three parts of its weight in panada made with rice flour, a little salt, and a piece of butter. Pound it well in a mortar and add by degrees the pounded whiting and half a pound of butter, four yolks of eggs, and a little cayenne ; work it all well together. Fill 44 COOKERY A LA MODE a buttered border mould with some of this and poach it in fish stock. Make small quenelles of the remainder of the forcemeat and poach them in salted water with the bones of the fish ; make an extract from two handfuls of mushroom trimmings and two glasses of sauterne and gradually add to it a pint of velout^ sauce ; reduce all this and strain. Make a garnish composed of picked crayfish or prawns, button mushrooms, soft roes of herrings, and a few whole truffles ; when ready to serve, add either cray- fish or lobster butteMushroom Sauce with Crayfishr, which pour over the garnish and dish all up on the border of forcemeat, which mask over with the sauce, and arrange the halves of hard-boiled eggs round the cage. (See Plate V.) ENTREES Prepare then a feast, And none of the least, For we will be merry," quoth he ' Robin Hood A feast must be without a fault. And if 'tis not right 'tis naught' PLATE VI. '1. Pressed Beef a la Cornwall. 2. Boudin a la Kaiser. 3. Chartreuse a la Alexandra, 4. Chaudfroid a la Homburg. IC ENTREES AND THEIR MODES OF COOKING