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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.
Cannelons a la creme are rolled strips of pastry filled with cream. Rolled pieces of crisp gingerbread, known as Brandy snaps, are often used for this dish. 174 MENUS MADE EASY. Canndons de Moka are made with coffee pastry. Tartlets are filled with any kind of preserve, and take their name from it— as Tartelettes de /raises, mix cerises, aux prunes, etc. ; a la vanille, they are filled with pounded almonds, vanilla sugar, whipped whites of eggs, etc. Tartelettes de crime a la Frangipane are filled with frangipane. a la Mosa'ique are filled with preserve, and covered with a mosaic of paste. a la Pompadour are filled with a ball of brioche paste folded over apricot or other marmalade, and sprinkled with sugar, a la Princcsse are filled with preserve, meringued over, and covered with coffee icing. a la Mikado are filled with an almond custard with raisins or dried cherries. Dauphines are tartlets filled with preserve, with custard over it, and meringue mixture piled on the top. Fanchonettes are tartlets filled with custard, meringued over, and the tops ornamented with little miniature meringues. In Fancho- nettes a la vanille the custard is flavoured with vanilla. Mirlitons aux fleurs d'oranger are tartlets filled with a batter of eggs, sugar, butter, pounded macaroons, candied orange flowers, etc. They are flavoured in various ways — aux amandes, with almonds instead of the orange flowers ; or au chocolat, with chocolate* Aux confitures) ENTREMETS, 175 they are half filled with jam before the batter is put in. Talmouses are cheese-cakes. au citron — lemon cheese-cakes. aux amandes — almond cheese-cakes. aux oranges are made of pounded almonds, orange-flower water, sugar, butter and eggs, with orange marmalade. aux confitures are cheese-cakes with jam. a la creme are cream tartlets — filled with custard. aux abricots a la creme are filled with preserved apricots and covered with cream. aux fruits are filled with any kind of preserved fruit. Of the fruit tarts there are : — Tarte aux abricots — apricots; aux prunes — plums ; aux reine-Claudes — greengages ; de pecJies — peaches; de pommes — apples; de pommes aux coings — apple with quince ; de poircs — pears ; de framboises et groseilles — raspberries and currants; de groseilles, vertes, or a maquereau — green goose- berries ; de groseilles — currants ; de cassis — black currants ; de raisins verts — green grapes ; de cerises — cherries ; de rhubarbe — rhubarb. Tourte a la, creme d'amandes is an open tart filled with almond cream. a lafrangipane is an open tart filled with fran- gipane — a custard of flour, eggs, cream, butter, etc. a la Frangaise consists of alternate layers of light pastry and jam, covered with meringue* 176 MENUS MADE EASY. Flan de poires, de cerises, de f raises, etc., are open fruit tarts. d* oranges is an open tart filled with stewed oranges. d'abricots a VAllemande — an open tart filled with apricots, and apricot marmalade over them. d'abricots a la Metternich is filled with apricots and cherries, and the pounded kernels with cream on the top. de pommes a VEcossaise is filled with stewed apples, covered with orange marmalade. d'ama?ides a la d'E scars is filled with a custard of green almonds with candied orange flowers, yolks of eggs, cream, etc. This is also made with filberts. a la creme pralinee is filled with custard, and