Chicken Puddings à Tilde

Ingredients

• forcemeat-balls
• crumbs of bread
• a salpicon of chickens
• truffles
• mushrooms
• six small fillets
• bacon
• a very large carrot

Method

1. 1

   Make these puddings with forcemeat-balls, like those à la Richelieu; dip them into crumbs of bread, and fry them of a light brown; make at the top an oblong opening, empty the puddings, taking care to preserve, however, a coat thick enough to admit a salpicon of chickens, truffles, and mushrooms, cut into small dice and thrown into a well-seasoned Bechamel; take six small fillets, three being wanted for each pudding; give them the shape of a handle of a basket, after having larded them with bacon and decorated them 'en conti.' Then take a very large carrot, cut it of the same size as the puddings, wrap it up in thin layers of bacon, put the small fillets over the carrot, and dust a little salt over them; place the whole in an oven; do not let it be too much done, but of a light brown only.

2. 2

   Glaze them when ready to send up to dinner; pour the salpicon into the puddings, with the sham basket handles at an equal distance over the puddings; and see that the fillets are not thrust in too far, that they may really look like basket handles.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken Puddings k TUde. Make these puddings with forcemeat-balls, like those a la Richelieu (No. 25) ; dip them into crumbs of bread, and fry them of a light brown ; make at the top an oblong opening, empty the puddings, taking care to preserve, however, a coat thick enough to admit a salpicon of chickens, truffles, and mushrooms, cut into small dice and thrown into a Avell- seasoned Bechamel ; take six small fillets, three being R 258 THE THOBOUGH GOOD COOK. wanted for each pudding ; give them the shape of a handle of a basket, after having larded them with bacon and decorated them "en conti," as it is called. Then take a very large carrot

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