Salpicon

Ingredients

• some ham
• some onion
• some mushrooms
• a set of cooked brains or a sweetbread
• some butter
• pepper
• salt
• lemon-juice

Method

1. 1

   Cut up the ham, onion, mushrooms, and brains or sweetbread.

2. 2

   Toss the onions and ham together in butter, then add the mushrooms and brains.

3. 3

   Add a little stock or gravy, simmer together, then thicken the sauce with yolks of eggs, and season with pepper, salt, and lemon juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salpicon. Cut up some ham, some onion, and some mush- rooms, and a set of cooked brains or a sweetbread. Toss the onions and ham together in some butter, then add the mushrooms and brains ; add a little stock or gravy. Simmer together; then thicken the sauce with yolks of eggs, and season with pej)per, salt, and lemon -juice. 299. — Croustades. Cut a sandwich loaf into slices about 2 inches thick ; scoop out the inside of each slice so as to make an empty case ; fry these cases in boiling fat, and fill them with any savoury mixture liked. Serve hot. 300. — Savoury Rice Mould. Clean and wash 6 ounces of rice. Put it in a stew- pan with cold "water ; boil it 1 minute, then take it MEATS AND BIRDS. 121 out and strain off the water. Add stock or milk, and stew gently until the rice will break easily with a spoon. Work it up with a spoonful of white sauce 2 tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, pepper, salt, and a beaten egg. The rice must be firm and well blended. Line a mould (which has an inner space) and bake it. Turn out the rice, and fill the inner vacant space with a savoury mince dressed with white sauce ; decorate wdth slices of hard-boiled egg, and serve. Remains of cold fish warmed in any sauce is a good substitute for the mince. The stock or milk the rice was cooked in to be used for soups, or for boiling white meats in first, and then finished as soup. 301. — Oyster Kromeskys. Cut some uncooked fat bacon into very thin slices ; place one or two oysters on each ; sprinkle with pepper, salt, and lemon-juice

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