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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

373
Calories
14g
Protein
12g
Fat
53g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Mushroom 1/2 cup sliced (35g) 15
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • two gills of the broth
  • six ounces of carolijia rice as described
  • two tablespoonfuls of cream
  • a pound of mushrooms
  • a gill of cream
  • two fillets
  • one gill of tomato puree
  • four whole eggs
  • salt
  • parsley

Directions

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(December.')

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Foisson St. Pierre k la Kouennaiae.

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T£te de cochon aux choux de Bruzelles.

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Riz froid aux aI)ricotB.

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Boucb^es k la Norv^gieime.

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1. Remove the flesh of a small John Dory in two fillets ; make a strong broth of the head and bones as

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previously described ; dry with flour, egg John Dory and bread-crumb the fillets after shaping naise. ' each neatly. Make a sauce with two gills

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of the broth and one gill of tomato puree, boihng up, skimming, and reducing it till creamy and well flavoured ; fry the fillets in boiling fat, drain, dry, sprinkle with salt ; dish on a hot dish garnished with olives farcies and parsley, with the sauce in a boat.

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2. Choose half a young pig's head, fresh. Put it into boiling broth with the vegetables, seasoning,

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&c., given for the breast of veal. Menu ^7fc r'^"'* viii., and simmer until sufficiently tender sprouts. fo admit of the easy removal of the bones.

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Having done this, put the meat under a weight ; cool the strained broth, and remove all fat. Next turn a pint and a half of the latter to a sauce with a roux of an ounce and a half of butter and the

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LAX BOUCHEES. 149

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same of flour, add to it the chopped peelings and stalks of half a pound of mushrooms, boil up, skim, and simmer ten minutes, after which strain off the sauce. Now cut the meat of the head into neat pieces, put them into a stewpan, cover with the warm broth, put in the mushrooms which yielded the trimmings, and simmer over a low fire till the meat is perfectly tender and the mushrooms done. Arrange a border of Brussels sprouts on a hot dish, put the pieces of meat in the centre, boil up, skim the sauce once more, sharpen it with a squeeze of lemon juice, and pour it through a strainer over the latter. This will be found as nice in every respect as a calf's head.

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3. Prepare six ounces of Carolijia rice as described

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for No. 4, Menu xliii., with this exception — when

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you take it off the fire turn it into a china

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or silver dish, cool, and later on set it Compote of

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ytcc 'wttft over ice, turning it about with a silver apricots.

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fork as you stir into it a gill of cream ;

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upon this bed lay as many preserved apricots, cut in

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halves, as will cover it, mask the layer with a syrup

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flavoured and thickened in the manner given for

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No. 4, Menu xxxvi., cover that with whipped cream,

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and serve.

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4. Make a custard as described for No. 4, Menu v., but without separating the yolks from the whites— using four whole eggs, seasoning, ^",^,^^^^^ and two tablespoonfuls of cream. Pour

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this into buttered bouchee-iaoulds two inches in

By Kenney-Herbert, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1840-1916 · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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