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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.
1 gill Veloute sauce. No. 169, 1 gill bechamel sauce, No. 167, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Remove the skin from the veal, cut it into small slices or mince coarsely, put it in a small stewpan together with the mushrooms and the truffle finely chopped, and sufficient Veloute sauce to moisten ; add a small piece of butter, and stir over the fire until hot. This forms the salpicon. Rub some cooked potatoes through a fine sieve, mix them with a piece of butter and a little cream. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Let the puree get thoroughly hot, then add the yolk of an egg, and work it well until it forms a light paste. Butter some small moulds, line them with the puree. Place about a dessert-spoonful of the salpicon in the centre of each mould, cover with potato puree, smooth the top with the blade of a knife, brush over with yolk of egg, and bake in a moderate oven until it is of a golden brown colour. Warm up the bechamel sauce, add the remaining Veloute sauce and egg-yolk, and stir well over the fire. When hot, finish with a little cream, and add the remaining butter bit by bit. Turn out the little moulds into an entree dish, pour the sauce round them, and serve hot. The remains of chicken, pigeon, rabbit, or game may be made up in this form. 403. Ris de Veau a la Louis Philippe. — 1 large or 2 small sweetbreads, 6 oz. ham, 1 oz. butter, 1 oz. parsley butter, 8 mushrooms, 1 small onion, 1 tea- spoonful powdered herbs, 2 tablespoonfuls bread- crumbs, 2 yolks of eggs, 1 large truffle, 6 oysters, pepper, and salt, ^ pint sauce Madere, No. 186. Soak the sweetbreads in cold water, blanch (parboil) it, and remove the skin and gristle, and cut in slices, 506 RECHERCHE COOKERY. about half an inch thick. Chop the ham and mush- rooms finely, add the onion, finely chopped, breadcrumbs, and powdered savoury herbs, and mix with the egg-yolks and parsley butter ; season with pepper and salt, and cover the slices of sweetbread completely with this mixture. Place each on a square piece of buttered paper, or if pre- ferred in a butter paper or china case; put a slice of truffle and a bearded oyster on top ; wrap up neatly if paper is used. Melt a little butter in a saute-pan, put in the papillotes, and bake in the oven for fifteen minutes. Dish up in the papers on a hot dish, garnish with fried parsley, and serve with a boat of Madere sauce, No. 186. If cases are used, put a tiny piece of butter on top of each, and bake in the oven. 404. Ris de Veau Frit aux Epinards. — 1 large or 2 small sweetbreads, ^ pint thick bechamel or Allemande sauce, No. 168, l^lb. cooked spinach (puree), piquante or Robert sauce, salt and pepper, 1 egg, breadcrumbs, and frying-fat.