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Practical gastronomy and culinary dictionary

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Trim and pare the neck the same as for cutlets, place it in a braising-pan on a bed of sliced carrot, turnip, and onion, and herbs. Season with pepper and salt, moisten with stock and half glass sherry. Cook in a quick oven at first and finish in a cooler oven ; baste occasionally. When done, take up and put in a cool place. Cut the cooked neck into cutlets, trim and pare neatly and coat with the following sauce : Melt the gelatine and add to the white sauce when the latter is hot ; add rather more than half the aspic ; divide this in two lots, mixing one lot with tomato puree and the other with the cream ; season to taste, and pass both separately through a tammy cloth. Coat half the cutlets with the white sauce and the others with the red sauce. Dish up the cutlets when set {e7i couro7ine) ; fill up the centre of dish with dressed salad. 375a. Cotelettes d'Agneau a la Moscovienne. — 1 neck of lamb, 1 quart aspic, No. 225, 2 tablespoonfuls chopped green mint, 1 pt. macedoine of vegetables, 1 gill of stiff Tartare sauce, No. 213, 1 hard-boiled eggf 2 slices of tongue, 1 large truffle, seasoning. Trim the best end of the neck of Iamb ; season and 488 RECHERCHE COOKERY. braise same in the usual manner. \Yhen cold, trim neatly and cut into cutlets. Dissolve a pint of aspic, add a pinch of sugar, and pour into a saute -pan. When partly set mix in the chopped mint. Range the cutlets in the pan in a layer about half an inch apart from each other. Allow to set, and cover with the remainder of the aspic jelly. Set on the ice. Mask a border mould with aspic, decorate sides with fancifully -cut slices of truffles and tongue, cooked peas, beans, and hard-boiled white of egg. Mix the macedoine of vegetables with sufficient liquid aspic to make it set when cold. Season with Tartare sauce, add any pieces of truffle, tongue, and hard-boiled egg which may be left over. After coating the border mould with a second layer of aspic, and when this is thoroughly set, partly fill the cavity with the di'essed macedoine, and finish up with a layer of aspic. Turn out on a round dish when quite set, cut or stamp out the cutlets ; dish them up en couronne on the aspic border. Heap up the remainder of dressed macedoine in the centre ; finish with a few leaves of lettuce or endive, and serve. 376. Cotelettes de Mouton a la Vallorbes.— 3 lbs. best end neck of mutton, \ lb. liver farce. No. 234, 8 leaves French gelatine, 1 gill aspic jelly, No. 225, ^ pint tomato sauce. No. 202, i pint bechamel sauce. No. 167, salt, pepper, and nutmeg ; salad of shredded celery and truffles mingled with Tartare sauce, No. 213, for the centre. Trim the neck neatly, cut off the bone ends ; tie up, and braise in the usual way ; when done put to cool. Prepare the liver farce as described in No. 234 ; cut the meat into cutlets, trim them, season v>'ith pepper and salt, and cover one side with a thin layer of hver farce. Dissolve the gelatine and incorporate with the sauces, thus allowing four leaves for the tomato sauce and four leaves for the bechamel sauce. When sufficiently cool, coat the covered sides of the cutlets alternately with white sauce and tomato sauce. Place the cutlets, after being well masked, on to a wire tray, and keep on the COLD ENTREES AND SECOND COURSE DISHES. 489