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Tournedos Lucullus

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 4

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

TOURNEDOS LUCULLUS Season the tournedos; fry them in clarified butter, and dish them, in the form of a crown, on fried crusts. Surround them with a garnish consisting of quenelles of chicken forcemeat, cocks’ combs, truffles, and blanched olives, and coat the whole with half-glaze sauce prepared with truffle essence

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