Filets de Soles Mimi

Ingredients

• a live lobster
• two tablespoonfuls of cream
• two-thirds oz. of butter
• Chablis wine
• garnish of spaghetti
• a slice of lobster
• very black truffle

Method

1. 1

   Divide a live lobster into two, lengthwise, and prepare it 4 l’américaine.

2. 2

   When the lobster is cooked, take the meat from the tail; cut it into slices.

3. 3

   Remove all the meat from the claws, pound smoothly, add cream, and rub through a sieve.

4. 4

   Prepare spaghetti with cream and add the lobster purée.

5. 5

   Fold the fillets of sole and poach them in Chablis wine and butter.

6. 6

   Fill lobster shells with spaghetti, lay poached fillets on top, and sprinkle with truffle.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 172. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two-thirds oz. of butter and a few drops of lemon juice, and pour it over the fillets and their garnish. Serve very hot. 884—FILETS DE SOLES MIMI Divide a live lobster into two, lengthwise, and prepare it 4 l’américaine, taking care to keep the sauce short. When the lobster is cooked, take the meat from the tail; cut 298 GUIDE TO MODERN COOKERY it into as many slices as there are fillets of sole, and keep them hot. Remove all the meat from the claws, and that remaining in the carcass; pound all of it smoothly, add two tablespoonfuls of cream, and rub through a fine sieve. Prepare a garnish of spaghetti with cream, and add thereto the purée of lobster. Fold the fillets of sole, and poach them in Chablis wine and butter. All this being done, lay the two emptied halves of the lobster on a napkin lying on a dish, setting them back to back. Fill these lobster shells to the brim with the prepared garnish of spaghetti. Upon this garnish lay the poached fillets of sole, sandwiching a slice of lobster between every two; besprinkle the whole with a short and fine julienne of very black truffle

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