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1889

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Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
514. Mignons Filets a la Parisifnne. — Pare nicely six small fillets; cook three minutes, as directed in No. 509; put half a pint of Madeira sauce (No. 185) in a saucepan, with two truffles and six mushrooms, all cut in slices. Let cook for ten minutes. Nicely arrange six small > round croutons on the hot dish; dress the fillets over them, and pour the sauce around, but not over them; then serve. 515. Mignons Filets aux Pommes-de-terre Parisiennes. — When cooked the same as the above, for three minutes, pour over the fillets placed on a dish half a gill of good maitre d'hotel butter (No. 145) thickened with some meat-glaze (No. 141), and garnish with half a pint of Parisian potatoesMignons Filets aux Pommes-de-terre Parisiennes (No. 986.) 51{>. Tenderloin Pique a la DucheSSC. — Procure four pounds of ten- derloin; pare it well, and lard it, using a fine needle. Line the bottom of a roasting-pan with some pork-skin, one sliced onion, one sliced carrot, and half a bunch of well-washed parsley-roots. Place the tenderloin on top; add a pinch of saltTenderloin Pique a la Duchesse, and roast it in a brisk oven for thirty-five min- utes, basting it occasionally with its own juice. Dish it up, skim the fat off the gravy, then strain it over the fillet, and pour half a pint of good Madeira sauce (No. 185) over, and garnish with six potatoes Duchesse (No. 1006). 517. Tenderloin Pique a la Portugaise.— Roast four pounds of tenderloin as in No. 516, lay it on a hot dish, arrange six stuffed tomatoes (No. 1023) around the tenderloin at equal distances. Put in a saucepan half a pint of tomato sauce (No. 205), and one gill of demi-glaceTenderloin Pique a la Portugaise (No. BEEF. 231 185). Let boil for one minute, then pour it into a sauce-bowl and serve separate. 518. Roast four pounds of tenderloin as for No. 516, slice half a pint of cepes, and add them to half a pint of Madeira sauce (No. 185) with one crushed clove of garlic. Pour the sauce onto a dish, lay the tenderloin on top, and decorate with some twisted anchovies, and twelve stoned olives laid on each one; then serve. 519. Roast Tenderloin a la Hussard. — Procure four pounds of fillet of beef, pare it nicely, and season with one pinch each of salt and pepper; butter the surface lightly, and lay it in a roasting-pan, and put it to cook for ten minutes in a brisk oven, then set it aside to cool, and afterwards lay on it some very fine chicken forcemeat (No. 226), besprinkle with fresh bread-crumbs, and baste with three tablespoonfuls of clarified butter. Roast it again for thirty-five minutes, and serve with three-quarters of a pint of the following Hussard garnishing on the dish. Put in a saucepan on the hot stove half a pint of Madeira sauce (No. 185), a gill of tomato sauce (No. 205), six good-sized, sound mushrooms, cut into small pieces, twelve godiveau quenelles (No. 221), and three ounces of cooked, smoked beef-tongue, cut in round pieces. Let all cook together for five minutes, and use when required. 520. Tenderloin Pique a la Sevigne. — Roast a piece of tenderloin as for No. 519; when done and laid on a dish, pour over it half a pint of good Madeira sauce (No. 185), and decorate with six small bouchees filled with spinach (No. 588). Tenderloin Pique a la Hussard