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COLD EGGS CAPUCINE

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 6

Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COLD EGGS CAPUCINE Carefully dry some cold, poached eggs, and half-coat them lengthwise with a white chaud-froid sauce; complete the coating on the other side with a smooth purée of truffles, thickened with jelly. Leave these two coats to set, placing the eggs in the cool or on ice for that purpose. Garnish the centre of a round dish with a small pyramid of cold, truffled Brandade of morue

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