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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.
Any cake cut in small shapes and glazed with chocolate is served as Chocolat glace. Sponge biscuits glazed with chocolate are called Biscuits glaces au cliocolat. Served with custard they are Biscuits a la creme. Biscuit de Savoie is Savoy or sponge cake, ENTREMETS. 169 As Gateau a la Duchcsse it is cut in slices, spread with preserve and put together again ; decorated with icing. For Gateau a la St. Honore it is soaked in wine, covered with whipped and flavoured cream, and surrounded with balls of meringue. For Gateau a la Parisicnne the centre is cut out and filled with a puree of fruit ; it is covered with coffee icing, and decorated with dried cherries and whipped cream. Gateau aux rins, or an cognac, is a tipsy cake. Petits pains a la Parisicnne are sandwiches of finger biscuits with preserve, masked with alternate lines of meringue mixture and pre- serve. Petits gateaux aux amandcs are small shapes of pastry with chopped almonds strewn on the top ; the}7 are served with whipped cream or preserve in the centre of the dish. au chocolat are little chocolate cakes. They may be served with cream, or with a chocolate custard. a la Heine— small shapes of a paste of pounded almonds, sugar and whites of eggs ; glazed with sugar icing. a la Victoria — little cakes of flour, butter, pounded almonds, maraschino, etc., spread with orange marmalade, and glazed with yellow icing. Madeleines are little cakes of a batter of flour, butter, eggs, brandy, etc. Darioles— a batter of flour, sugar, eggs, cream, pounded almonds, etc., baked in dariole moulds 170 MENUS MADE EASY. lined with paste, with candied orange flowers on the top. Flavoured with vanilla or coffee, they are called a la vanille, or au cafe. Darioles a la Duchesse are Duchess cakes made of a batter with citron, angelica, dried cherries, etc. ; glazed with white sugar. Ballettes dorees are little cakes of pounded almonds with breadcrumbs, etc., and apricot jam. Biscuits a I'ltalienne are fancy shapes of a light paste with chopped almonds, spread with jam, and put together in pairs. They are served in a crown with whipped cream in the centre. aux peclies are round-topped biscuits spread with jam and put together in pairs in the shape of peaches ; coated with white icing and a little red colouring. aux abncots are made in the same way, but of a smaller size. Apricot jam should be used, and yellow icing. G ateau aux /raises, etc., is composed of layers of light cake and of mashed strawberries or other ripe fruit, covered with cream. It can be made with slices of bread, instead of cake, soaked in a syrup of the fruit. de fruits a Vltalienne — a light cake soaked with a liqueur or fruit syrup, with a compote of fruit in the centre, decorated with fruit and whipped cream. feuillete is puff paste cut in shapes. de mille feuilles — a pile of thin round pieces of puff pastry, spread alternately with apricot ENTREMETS. 171 marmalade, orange marmalade and currant jelly;- masked with apricot marmalade, and garnished with dried cherries. Garnished with angelica and a piping of whipped cream, and with stewed fruit in the centre, it is called Puit de fruits aux blanches couronnes. Gateau de Nantes — a pile of rings of puff pastry, with an almond paste with chocolate in the centre, decorated with icing.