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The new century cookery book

1901

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Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
1172. Fetites Mousses de Foie Grasd la Heine. — Procure a terrine or tin of foie gras, size No. 10, take out contents (liver and farce), and remove the lard, cut the liver into slices, place in a buttered saute-pan with a small mirepoix of sliced carrot, onion, and a small sprig of thyme, and a few dice of lean bacon ; cook over a brisk fire for a few minutes, season with a little aromatic spice, moisten with a glass of sherry, and allow to get cold. Mask eight to ten small dariole or fluted timbale moulds with aspic jelly, ornament each with fancifully cut slices of truffles. Put the pre- pared foie gras &c. into a mortar, pound well, and pass through a sieve. Put this in a basin, stir in two tablespoonfuls of dissolved meat-glaze and two tablespoonfuls of aspic jelly, stand the basin on some crushed ice, and work the mixture with a wooden spoon until it commences to thicken, add by degrees a little more aspic jelly or very strong veal stock, last of all work in about half a gill of whipped creamFetites Mousses de Foie Gras, fill up the masked moulds and stand them on the ice. Dress the mousses in a circle, placing each on a round of aspic jelly, fill the centre with cooked asparagus-points or cooked green peas, well seasoned with a little mayonnaise-aspic jelly, garnish with diamond shapes of set aspic jelly and parsley. Keep in a cool place until required for table. 1173. Zephires de Foie Gras. — 1 medium-sized tin or terrine of foie gras pate, 1 truffle, i gill bechamel sauce (No. 202), 1 gill mayonnaise sauce (No. 277), | pint stiff aspic jelly (No. 293), a few sprigs of tarragon and chervil, 2 sheets of French leaf gelatineZephires de Foie Gras. Have ready six to eight small zephire (oval) moulds. Trim the foie gras, cut into slices, and stamp out as many ovals as there are COLD DISHES OF MEAT, POULTRY, AND GAME 403 moulds, similar in shape, but somewhat smaller. Coat the moulds thinly with aspic, decorate with strips of truffle and tarragon and chervil leaves. Stir the mayonnaise sauce and the remainder of aspic while still liquid. Coat the moulds with this, and put the remainder in a mortar with the trimmings of foie gras, pound the latter till smooth, season to taste, add the sauce in which the two leaves of gelatine has been dissolved. Pass through a fine sieve, coat ea<?h piece of foie gras with this and set into the moulds, fill up with the puree, smooth over with a knife, and place the moulds on to the ice to set. When ready for serving immerse the moulds in tepid water, wipe with a cloth, turn out, dish up, garnish to taste, and serve. 1174. Filets de Caneton d la Lorraine. — 1 large duckling , 1 gill brown chaud-froid sauce (No. 291), 1 terrine of foie gras (No. 12 size), % gill veloutee sauce (No. 206), 1^ gill aspic jelly (No. 293), ^ lb. cooked lean ham, \ glass Marsala, 1 gill double cream, salt, pepper, and paprikaFilets de Caneton à la Lorraine.