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Tournedos Belle-Hélène

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 1

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 212. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TOURNEDOS BELLE-HELENE Prepare as many small croquettes of asparagus-tops, shaped like quoits, as there are tournedos, and fry them while the latter are being cooked. Season the tournedos, and fry them in clarified butter. — Arrange them, in the form of a crown, on a dish; place a croquette on each tournedos, and a large, glazed slice of truffle

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