Fillet of Sole a la Financier

Ingredients

• Fillet a couple of good thick English soles
• pour half a pint of sound cider over them
• place buttered paper on top

Method

1. 1

   Butter a pan and place the fillets inside.

2. 2

   Season with pepper and salt, pour cider over, cover with buttered paper, and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 268. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fillet of Sole a la Financier Steak larded with Truffles and Oysters Iced Asparagus and Cream Roast Ortolans Salad Baba au Rhum Savoury Gr£ce Fruit 671 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS Clear Soup. Take a small knuckle of veal, same of venison and rough hough, five pounds in all, and half a dozen large giblets ; put in a pot and skim very carefully when coming to the boil. Boil gently but steadily for five or six hours, with a head of celery, a sliced carrot, half a turnip, a couple of sliced onions, a bunch of parsley, a bunch of chervil, a couple of bay leaves, two knots of lump sugar, with a seasoning of pepper and salt. Pour through a colander and let stand till cold, then remove the fat. Take a slice of ham, a sliced carrot and onion, and a piece of butter ; fry these till a thick glaze gathers on bottom of pan ; remove vegetables and ham, pour in a little stock to melt glaze. Strain and put in pot with the stock, along with one and a half breakfast- cupfuls of fish stock made as follows : — Put the bones and trimmings of two good-sized soles (any white fish will do), in a pot with two quarts water, bring to the boil, and skim carefully ; then add half a pint white wine, a bunch of fine herbs, an onion stuck with four cloves, a teaspoonful of coriander seeds, half a carrot, and two ounces ham which has been fried very crisp and pounded to a powder. Boil quickly for a good hour. Strain and put on fire again, and reduce till quantity is only one and a half breakfastcupfuls. Boil up, clearing in the usual way with whites of eggs and shells. Put a glass of sherry and the squeeze of a quarter of lemon in the soup tureen before pouring in the soup. 67a R.H.C.'s Fillet of Sole a la Financier. Fillet a couple of good thick English soles. Butter a pan, in which place the fillets. Season with pepper and salt, pour half a pint of sound cider over them, place buttered paper on top

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