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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.
Wrap up the fowls in buttered paper, and boil till tender in richly-flavoured w^hite stock. Take up, remove the skin, and let cool. Reduce half the hquor of fowls, skim well, and stir into the chaudfroid sauce ; reduce again and pour into a basin, stir the sauce on the ice until it commences to get firm, then pour quickly over the fowls so as to completely coat them. Decorate the breasts with fancifully cut slices of truffles and tongue ; when thoroughly set, mask over wdth a coating of half -set aspic jelly. Dish up, garnish round the base with blocks of aspic, also some chopped aspic and tongue. 380. Cremes de Volaille en Tomates. — A])out \ lb. cooked chicken meat, f lb. ripe tomatoes, 2 oz. cooked ham, \ oz. butter, \ pint aspic jelly. No. 225, 1 gill cream, 2 tablespoonfuls Veloute sauce, No. 169, \ dessert-spoonful meat glaze, 8 tomato moulds, parsley, salt, and pepper. Wipe the tomatoes, remove the stems, cut into slices, COLD ENTREES AND SECOND COURSE DISHES. 491 and saute in half an ounce of butter, season with salt and pepper ; when done rub them through a fine sieve, and incorporate three large tablespoonfuls aspic jelly. Eemove the skin and sinews from the chicken, put it in a mortar, and pound till smooth ; add the ham and pound also, pass all through a sieve, mix with it the Veloute sauce and dissolved meat glaze and about two tablespoonfuls liquid aspic, or, if preferred, substitute with dissolved gelatine to set the puree ; stir well, add the seasoning, beat up the cream and mix with it. Line each half of the tomato-moulds with aspic jelly ; when set, mask thickly with the tomato puree ; fill them up with the chicken puree. Press each set of halves together tightly and place them on the ice to set. Immerse the moulds in tepid water, wipe with a cloth, turn out, dress neatly on a dish, garnish with chopped aspic jelly and a few sprigs of fresh parsley, and serve. 381. Medallions de Volaille a I'lmperiale. — 2 chickens, larding bacon, 4 truffles, 1 white of egg, 1 gill cream, a mirepoix for braising, 1 oz. butter, | pint white chaudfroid sauce. No. 222, liquid aspic jelly, and some set for garnish, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, a salad of asparagus points for garnish, 8 to 10 rounds of cooked ox-tongue. Eemove the skin from the chickens, raise the fillets and wings, flatten a little, and make up into 8 to 10 rounds. Lard these carefully with larding-bacon. Eemove all the meat from the chickens, free it from gristle, and pound in a mortar until very fine ; then pass through a wire sieve, return to the mortar, and work in the white of egg. Beat up the cream, mix with the forcemeat, add pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg to taste, and set on the ice until required. Put the broth in a deep saute-pan or braisoire, spread over the bottom thickly, cover with some mirepoix consisting of carrot, turnip, onion, bayleaf, and herbs, and a few slices of bacon ; range the larded fillets on this, moisten with chicken stock, cover with a buttered paper, and braise in the oven for about thirty minutes ; while basting 492 RECHERCHE COOKERY.