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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.
Grondin/arci aufour is stuffed and baked. Filets de grondins en matelote. Fillets cut in halves, breadcrumbed and fried ; served on a border, with Matelote sauce. a Vltalienne are saute, and served with Italian sauce ; a la Maitre d'hotel, with maitre d'hotel sauce. a la Venitienne are served in a white sharp sauce with chopped tarragon. HADDOCK. Merluche grillee is broiled. Served with tarragon butter, it is a I'estragon. a la Hollandaise — served with Hollandaise sauce ; a la maitre d'hotel — with maitre d'hotel sauce. sauce aux osufs — boiled and served with egg sauce. farcie — stuffed, baked, and served with brown gravy. a la Syrienne — served in a brown sharp sauce with chopped gherkins, a la Viennoise — served in a white saiice with chopped ham and tarragon. 24 MENUS MADE EASY. Filets de merluche a la tartare are fried fillets served with Tartare sauce. a I'Indienne are served with curry sauce. a la Eoyale are saute, and dressed in a crown, covered with anchovy sauce, and garnished with fillets of anchovies and hard-boiled egg. HAKE. Merlus a VIndienne is cut in slices, broiled, and served in curry sauce. HALIBUT. Fletan a la Morny. Small fillets served in a cheese sauce. Hake and halibut may be dressed like cod; but, as they are rather coarse fish, a highly seasoned sauce should be selected. HERRINGS. Harengs grilles, sauce moutarde, are broiled, and served with mustard sauce. a la creme — boiled, and served with a sauce of cream, butter and lemon juice. a la Bohemienne are served in a brown sauce with red currant jelly. au jus d' oranges — served with orange sauce. farcis are boned, stuffed and baked. en matelote are stewed with herbs, etc. en paupiettes are boned, rolled and fried. en caisses are baked in paper cases. au gratin — baked with herbs and covered with breadcrumbs. FISH OR POISSONS. 25 Harengs a la Mariniere — boned, rolled, boiled, and served on toast, with the roes cut in small pieces and fried. fumes a la Bruxelloise are fillets of smoked herrings broiled in a paper case with a layer of stuffing between them. Served with pieces of lemon. For Croquettes de harengs they are broiled, made into balls with mashed potatoes, and fried. They can also be made into little cakes, or petits pains, and served a la Tartare with Tartare sauce. JOHN DORY. Jean Dore, or Saint Pierre, en ravigote is served in Ravigote sauce. a la cremiere is boiled in milk and water, and served with a sauce of cream, butter and lemon juice. a la puree de crevettes — served in a puree of shrimps with white sauce. a la bateliere — served in white sauce with button onions, mushrooms and essence of anchovy. en matelote mariniere — served in Matelote sauce with oysters. a V Orleannaise is stuffed with fish forcemeat, braised, and served in Cardinal sauce with tarragon vinegar, and slices of gherkins and beetroot. It is dressed au gratin, a la Vatel, a la Parisienne, etc., in the same way as turbot. 26 MENUS MADE EASY. LAMPREY. Lamproie a I'ltalienne is filleted, and stewed in •wine with oil, onions, herbs and lemon juice. au supreme is cut up, saute, and served in a sauce of red wine with truffles. They are also dressed in many of the ways given for eels. MACKEREL. Maquereaux, sauce fenouil are boiled and served with fennel sauce. a la maitre d'hotel — broiled, and served in Maitre