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Menus made easy, or, How to order dinner and give the dishes their French names

1894

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Presented as published in 1894. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
a la Nemours — covered with forcemeat and slices of ham, breadcrumbed and fried ; served with a white sauce. a VOstende — spread with an oyster sauce, bread- crumbed and fried ; served in a brown sauce with anchovy. au chasseur — larded, soaked in marinade, and braised ; served with brown sauce and currant jelly. a la Grande- Bretagne — larded, split, and stuffed with macaroni and horseradish sauce ; served with a brown sauce and potato chips. Petits filets de bceuf a la Riga are rolled fillets, stuffed with bacon and forcemeat, braised, and served with peas and a brown sauce, garnished with slices of tomatoes. Orenadins de bceuf a la Financiere are little fillets, larded, braised, and served with a Financiere garnish. 48 MENDS MADE EASY. Tournedos a la sauce poivrade. Slices of cooked fillet dressed in a crown alternately with fried slices of bread of the same size; Poivrade sauce in the centre. This may be served with olives or French beans, instead of Poivrade sauce ; and would then be called Tournedos aux olives, or aux haricots verts. Slices of the fillet served with Piquante, Hol- landaise or other sauce, are called after the sauce with which they are served. A la Naples, they are served with a cheese sauce ; aux pruneaux, with a compote of prunes. Mironton de bceuf are slices of cooked beef in a sauce of onions, butter, gravy, flour, etc.; covered with breadcrumbs and baked. This dish is often called Escalopes de bceuf au gratin. It may be served aux cdpres — with a sharp sauce and capers, and a la St. Jacques — with a garnish of mushrooms and cherries. Mironton de baeuf aux choux is the dish known as Bubble-and-Squeak. Olives, or Paupiettes, de bceuf are slices of beef spread with forcemeat, rolled, stewed, and served in the sauce. They may be garnished aux olives— with olives, or aux tomates — with tomatoes. Salade de boeufa la Chateau. Little rolled slices of beef served on an aspic border with a mixed vegetable salad in the centre. Bouilli en matelote. Slices of boiled beef in a sauce of stock, wine, onions, mushrooms, etc. ENTREES. 49 Entre-cotes de bceuf a la Bordelaise are thick slices of ribs of beef, broiled and served in Bordelaise sauce with pieces of beef marrow. Timbale de bceuf a la Milanaise is a mould lined with macaroni, filled with a preparation of minced beef. A mould of beef is served as Gateau, or Pain, de Iceuf, a la Naples — with a cheese sauce, a la Milanaise — with a garnish of macaroni. Cotelettes de bceuf a la Moltke are cutlet moulds of beef forcemeat, served with a Milanaise garnish and a rich tomato sauce. Dormers de bceuf are beef dormers — the whites of hard-boiled eggs filled with a puree of beef. They are sometimes breadcrumbed and fried. Petits pains a la Menagert are little moulds of minced beef served with brown sauce and mushrooms. The same preparation may be made into little rolls or cakes, wrapped in pork caul and fried, and served as Crepinettes, or dressed in little patties, as Petites bouchees, a la Menagere. (Eufs a VEcossaise are hard-boiled eggs coated with minced meat or forcemeat, breadcrumbed and fried, and then cut in halves. If covered with crushed vermicelli instead of breadcrumbs, and served with a sharp sauce, they are called a la Garfteld. Curried beef is served as Kari de Iceuf, or Bceuf