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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.
Italian sauce with capers, or in brown sauce •with wine, garnished with croutons of fried bread. Chartreuse de volaille is an ornamental mould of mixed vegetables, with pieces of chicken in the centre. Creme de volaille. A pure'e of fowl with cream, steamed in a mould decorated with truffles, tongue, etc. Petits souffles de volaille are made of a puree of fowl and beaten eggs, baked in little souffle cases, or steamed. Souffle glace de volaille. Minced chicken soaked in oil, vinegar, etc. ; put into a souffle* dish in alternate layers with aspic whipped to a froth, and iced. Aspic a la Royale is prepared with small round slices of fowl, slices of truffle, mushrooms and cocks' combs, with Bechamel sauce and aspic ; cut into oval pieces and dressed in a mould of aspic, ornamented with hard-boiled white of egg and truffles. Vol-aii-vent de volaille aux huitres is a vol-au-vent filled with shreds of chicken in white sauce with oysters. Small puff paste patties filled with minced chicken and white sauce, with tongue, mushrooms or truffles, are served as Petitcs louchecs, or Petits pates, a la Heine. This preparation of chicken is also dressed in little china or paper cases as Petites caisses a la ENTRIES. 83 Eeine ; or -with poached eggs on the top, a la Victoria. Petitcs caisses a la Belle Isle are filled with chicken or game in white sauce with chopped mush- rooms and ham, garnished with shreds of truffle and almonds. Bordure de riz a la Eeine is a round wall of rico filled with minced, or puree of, fowl. It is sometimes garnished with plovers' eggs round the edge. Minced chicken, with ham or tongue, can be made into croquettes, breadcrumbed and fried, or into rissoles, folded in thin paste and fried. The latter are sometimes coated with broken vermicelli, Croquettes de volaille aux trujfes are made with chopped truffles instead of ham or tongue, and are served with truffle sauce. Dressed with tongue and served in a white sauce with chopped tongue, they are called Croquettes de volaille a Vecarlate. Pclitcs bombes a la Eeine are little moulds of chicken forcemeat. They may be served cold, set in aspic, as Chaudfroid en aspic a la Eeine. Petites bombes a la Princesse are moulds made of chicken forcemeat with croquette preparation in the centre, and are served with white sauce and a vegetable garnish. Crepes a la Eeine are small pancakes folded over chicken croquette preparation, cut in halves and served in a crown. Dormers de volaille are chicken dormers — the whites 86 MENUS MADE EASY. of hard-boiled eggs filled with chicken force- meat; served with spinach or any vegetable garnish, and a white sauce with chopped ham. Quenelles de volatile are quenelles of chicken force- meat. They are poached and served with a dressed vegetable, or dipped in white sauce, breadcrumbed and fried. Au Supreme, they are served with Supreme sauce. En demi deuil, half of them are rolled in chopped truffles ; dressed in a crown, with white sauce and chopped truffles. A Vecarlate, they are dressed alternately with glazed slices of tongue of the same size, and served with Supreme sauce. If a Eussian tongue is used, they are called a la Russe instead of a Vecarlate.