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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.
ginger and brandy sauce. Pouding a la Newcastle — a bread and custard pudding steamed in a mould lined -with dried cherries. Made with cake instead of bread, and decorated with whipped cream coloured pink, and chopped pistachios and cocoanut, it may be called a la Louise, panache au chocolat — a steamed pudding of layers of a chocolate cake and of a plain light cake, served with a fruit sauce. a la Venitienne — a cold custard and sponge cake pudding with layers of preserved fruits, set in a mould lined with jelly and decorated with fruit. Diplomate — a rich custard with dried fruits set in a mould lined with jelly. a V Alexandra — a steamed custard flavoured with vanilla. It may be served hot with a whip sauce, or cold with a macedoine of fruit. a la Eeine Marguerite — a rich custard with raisins, citron and preserved ginger. a la Kaisir — a rich almond custard steamed in a mould decorated with citron, etc. a VAdolphe — a strawberry custard with chocolate cream and sponge cake in the centre, set in a mould lined with jelly and decorated with pistachios and cocoanut. Nesselrode, or a la Nesselrode — Ice pudding. Petits poudings a V Alexandra are little sponge cake and custard puddings decorated with chopped ENTREMETS. 183 almonds, cherries and angelica; served in an apricot sauce with brandy. Petits poudings a la Florida are little light steamed puddings, garnished with dried cherries and served with a macedoine of fruit. Petits poudings de college are College puddings. Petits chateaux au vin are Castle puddings served with wine sauce. They may also be served cold, the centres cut out, filled with preserve and cream and decorated with little handles of angelica, as Petitcs corbcillcs defantaisic. Meringue d'oranges is a steamed orange and bread- crumb pudding covered with meringue. Croquettes de riz are rice croquettes ; de crime de riz — ground rice ; de semoule — semolina ; de vermicelle — vermicelli. Croustade de riz is a fancy mould of rice, the centre filled with a cornflour custard. Eiz meringue — rice, with milk, cream, sugar, whites of eggs, etc. ; sprinkled with sugar and baked. a I'Imperatrice is a rice cream served with a compote of fruit. a la Parisicnne is a rice cream set in a mould lined with jelly and decorated with angelica and dried cherries ; served with a compote of fruit in the centre covered with whipped cream. Crepe a VIndienne is a flat cake of rice, browned on the top, and decorated with preserved ginger and cherries, etc. Quenelles a la crime are small quenelles of a paste 184 MENUS MADE EASY. of flour, cream, eggs, etc. They are also made a la semoule with semolina. Soupe doree, or Pain perdu — small shapes of bread, soaked in milk, etc., dipped in beaten eggs and fried, FRITTERS. Beignets d'abricots a la Chartres are apricot fritters. d'abricots a Veau de vie — sandwiches of bread dipped in brandy and half apricots, fried in batter. de peches a la royale — peach fritters. de peches au vin du Rhin — half peaches soaked in Rhine wine, etc., and fried ; served in a syrup of the wine with the kernels. de brugnons — nectarine fritters. de pommes a la d' Orleans — apple fritters. ] de pommes a la Bavarie — apples soaked in brandy,