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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.
Wipe the tails with a damp cloth, cut them into small joints, blanch and drain. Cook until tender in the stock and a little water, adding the wme, savoury herbs, parsley, &c. Season to taste, allow them to cool in the stock. Chop a little parsley and mix with the frying batter, drain the pieces of tail in a cloth, dip them in the prepared batter, and fry a golden colour in hot fat or lard. Drain, dish up, garnish with fried parsley, and serve with hot tomato sauce. 438. Carbonades de Mouton a la Nantaise. — 3 or 4 lbs. best end of neck of mutton or a piece of loin, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 1 small onion, 1 bouquet garni, No. 3, J pint Espagnole sauce, No. 184, 2 oz. butter, 1 glass port, 24 small stuffed onions, ^ pint green peas (cooked), salt, pepper, larding bacon. Bone the meat, pare off all the fat, cut into quarter- inch-thick slices, flatten each a little, trim, and lard with strips of fat bacon. Prepare the vegetables, cut carrot, turnip, and onion into slices, and put in a saute- pan with the butter and bouquet ; season and broil a few minutes over a quick fire, put in the larded fillets, let brown slightly on both sides ; drain off the fat, add | pint of sauce and a glass of port wine, cover and cook slowly ENTREES (hot). 527 MUTTON (DU MOUTON). Leg (Gigot) Kernel (Xoix) Loin (Longe^ FiUet (Filet) Neck (best end) Neck (Carre) Breast (Poitrine) Shoulder (ifipaule) Loin Neck (best end) Neck (scrag) 528 RECHERCHE COOKERY. in the oven for 20 minutes ; take up the fillets, drain and dish up in a row on a small border of mashed pota- toes or puree of peas. Free the sauce from its fat, strain into a small stewpan, add the remainder of Espagnole, boil up and moisten the stuffed onions, previously prepared, with this sauce. Dress the latter with the green peas in alternate rows round the base of the dish. Sauce over a little, and serve the remainder of the sauce in a sauce-boat. 439. Cotelettes de Mouton a la Pompadour. — 6 or 8 neatly pared mutton cutlets, 2oz. butter, 1| gill soubise sauce, No. 180, 1 gill Pompadour sauce. No. 204, f pint macedoine vegetables, 1 egg, breadcrumbs, frying fat, pepper and salt. Season the cutlets with pepper and salt, and fry slightly in butter ; drain and place between two boards to press. Coat both sides of the cutlets with well-reduced cold soubise sauce. Egg and crumb twice. Fry slowly in clarified fat or butter, drain and dish up in a circle. Heat up the macedoine of vegetable with a little Pompa- dour sauce, season, put in the centre of the dish and serve. Lamb or pork cutlets are served in the same style. 440. Cotelettes de Mouton an Naturel. — Procure the best end of a neck of mutton, saw off the upper part of the rib-bones, so as to leave the bones of the cutlets about 3 inches long. Saw oft' the spine-bone, close to the end of the ribs, cut or trim off the flat bones adher- ing to the thick end of the neck, cut slantwise into cutlets. Flatten each a little and pare neatly, and with- out waste; cut off the skin on the side of each bone, and scrape the ends of the bones ; season with pepper and salt, brush over with oiled butter, and grill ; or melt about an ounce of butter in a saute-pan, put in the cutlets when hot, and broil on both sides over a brisk fire. Dish up and serve with plain gravy.