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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.
a la Bohemienne — soaked in marinade, roasted, and served in a brown sauce with pickled onions, olives, currant jelly, etc. 114 MENUS MADE EASY. A leg or neck of mutton is also dressed in this way. A fore-quarter of Southdown mutton is called Quartier de pre-sale. Served with haricot beans, it is a la Bretonne. A Saddle of mutton as — Selle de mouton a VAnglaise or en broche is roasted. au laver — served with laver and a brown sauce. rdtie a lavenaison — it is hung a fortnight, roasted, and served in a brown sauce with wine, etc. a la Mirabeau — roasted, and served in Poivrade sauce with chopped gherkins and beetroot. a la Polonaise. The meat of a roast saddle is cut out, minced, and put back again with brown sauce, etc., keeping the shape by a wall of mashed potatoes ; it is sprinkled with bread- crumbs, and browned. Dressed in this way, with a puree of onions over the mince, and served with Soubise sauce, it is called a la Marseillaise. A Leg of mutton as — Gigot roti is roasted ; a la Portugaise, it is served with Spanish onions. a la Russe — roasted, and the cooking finished in burning brandy; served with the gravy and brandy. a la Provenqale — garlic inserted into the leg; roasted and served with Bretonne sauce. en chevreuil — larded, soaked in oil and roasted ; served with Poivrade sauce. REMOVES OR RELEVE*S. 115 Gigot a la Flamande — boiled, and served with car- rots and mashed turnips. It is also served with caper sauce — sauce aux cdpres. a la Eoyale is larded and braised; a la Jar- diniere — with a Jardiniere garnish ; a la Napolitaine — with macaroni and Neapolitan sauce ; a. la Soubise — with Soubise sauce and potato croquettes. de sept heures is boned, and stewed for seven hours with vegetables. farci is boned, stuffed and roasted ; served with tomato or Soubise sauce. a la Bretonne is stuffed and braised, and served with Bretonne sauce and haricot beans. a la Polonaise is braised, cut in slices without severing them from the bone, and a stuffing put between each slice. A Neck of mutton as — Carre de mouton is roasted; bouitti — boiled; aux cdpres — served with caper sauce ; a la Niver- naise — with carrots and mashed turnips, and caper sauce in a sauce-boat. au riz — cooked with rice, slices of onion and dice of ham. a VIrlandaise is braised and served with onions and potato croquettes. a la Dustan is served with a puree of haricot beans ; a la Jardiniere — with a Jardiniere garnish; or with any dressed vegetable or puree, naming it accordingly. a la Provenqale — spread with ^i pure'e of onioms. 116 MENUS MADE EASY. breadcrumbed and browned; served in a highly seasoned brown sauce. Carre de mouton a la SouUse — larded, braised, and served with Soubise sauce. au chevreuil — larded, soaked in marinade and braised ; served with Chevreuil sauce and potatoes cut in little balls. If stewed prunes are substituted for the potatoes, it may be called a VAllemande. a VAlgerienne — larded, soaked in marinade and roasted; served in brown sauce with some of the marinade and French plums. Carres de mouton a la legumiere are two necks roasted, put together like a saddle, and the space between filled up with mashed potato, garnished with other vegetables. A Loin of mutton may be dressed in many of the ways suggested for necks ; also as —