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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.
is sprinkled with sugar and glazed. Fleur de peches, etc., is also an open tart, baked in a " fleur " ring ; de groseilles a la creme is filled with stewed gooseberries with cream or custard. de pommes a la Suede is filled with a puree of apples with shreds of orange peel and burnt almonds, and is covered with meringue. a la Meringue is filled with layers of custard and jam, and covered with meringue. a VAllemande is filled with stewed fruit and custard. Little open tarts or tartlets are sometimes called Petits fleurs, as Petits fleurs aux /raises for straw- berry tartlets. ENTREMETS. 177 Pommes en croustade, or Croustade de pommes a I'lmperiale, is a baked shape of paste filled with apple marmalade and garnished with dried cherries, etc. Apple dumplings are called Dumplings aiix pommes. A jam roll in suet crust, boiled or baked, is called Cannelon aux confitures. PUDDINGS. Plum pouding — Plum pudding. A Christmas pudding is called Pouding de Noel. Little round blocks of plum pudding, the centres cut out and filled with brandy butter, are called Puits d' amours a la Noel. Fouding au riz — rice pudding ; au tapioca — tapioca; an sagou — sago; a la semoule — semolina; au macaroni — macaroni; au vermicelle — vermi- celli ; a la creme de riz — ground rice. These puddings when steamed are often called Gateau instead of Pouding. A la Franfaise, they are served with a fruit sauce. au pain — bread-and-butter pudding. Another pudding " au pain " is made of breadcrumbs, milk, eggs, lemon peel, etc. au pain bis — brown-bread pudding. aux abricots — breadcrumbs, cream, sugar, yolks of eggs and apricots, baked in a mould lined with paste. aux groseilles — a puree of gooseberries, with 178 MENUS MADE EASY. breadcrumbs, eggs, etc.; baked in a mould lined with paste. Pouding aux marrons — a steamed pudding of pounded chestnuts with butter, milk, eggs, etc. It is served with apricot syrup or jam. aux pommcs — a pudding of alternate layers of breadcrumbs and stewed apples. It can be baked or steamed. With the addition of powdered ginger and spice it is called Poud- ing de pommes au gingembre ; with ginger syrup and pieces of preserved ginger, a VIndienne; or with almonds and currants, a la Suisse. aux figues — a boiled mould of dried figs, suet, milk, eggs, breadcrumbs, etc. Aux dattcs is made in the same way with dates ; aux raisins, with raisins. a Vananas — Pineapple pudding. Whip sauce, with the pineapple syrup, is served with it. au gingembre — Ginger pudding* au citron — Lemon pudding. aux oranges is made in the same way as lemon pudding, with oranges instead of lemons* aux sultancs — -a light steamed pudding with sultana raisins* aux amandes — Almond pudding. aux noix de coco— ^Cocoanut pudding. ft la crime — Custard pudding. a la vanillc — a light steamed pudding flavoured with vanilla. au clwcolat — a steamed mould of sponge cake in ENTREMETS. 179 crumbs, butter, sugar, eggs, chocolate, etc. Made with coffee instead of chocolate, it is called Ponding Mocha. Pouding an, caramel — custard pudding in a mould •with burnt sugar. It is usually served cold, with burnt sugar sauce, or with burnt brandy and sugar, as Creme an caramel, a la marmelade — a steamed mould of flour, sugar, milk, eggs, marmalade, etc. ; served with mar- malade sauce. souffle — a very light steamed pudding; it is