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1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
■ To braise or braze meat is to cook in a brazier or covered pot with live coals on top. It can be done nearly as well in deep baking pan in the oven if covered witn buttered paper— which will stand a good deal of heat without burning and keeps the steam in the meat. Saw the breast of veal in strips across the ribs, put them in the pan with some soup stock, vegetables and garden herbs and saltBraised Brisket of Veal and cook with the paper cover on in the oven for an hour and a half. Have it so that the liquor is dried down to glaze that sticks to the pan and to the meat. Tak"'the meat out, pour off the fat and bpil up some Spanish sauce in the pan, if you have it, if not use water; strain and use as gravy to the meat and serve browned potatoes in the same plate. 841— Lamb Cutlats, a la Nelson. Cutlets spread with a highly flavored mince in stifl" sauce, dredged with bread crumbs and baked brown. Prepare the cutlets (chops) as for broiling, lay in a pan and bake half- done so that thev will retain their shape afterwards. Mince an ounce each of ham, mush- rooms, young onions, ^ little parsley and crush a clove of garlic and mince it with the rest. Take a spoonful each of flour and butter, stir them over the fire and add water to make a sauce thick as paste; stir the minced ingre- dients in. Spread a teaspoonful on each cutlet, round it over and cover with bread crumbs or cracker meal and brown them in the oven. Serve a spoon- ful of AUemande sauce in the disband the cutlet in it and garnish with a strip of toast. 84-2— Sauoe AUemande. Take^ chicken or veal broth boiled down rich and strained through a nap- kin and pour it to a roux of butter and flour made hot over the fire as if mak- ing butter sauce. When thin enough let it slowly boil at the side and skim ofl" the butter that rises while the sauce is becoming thick- er by reduction. Shortly before it is wanted mix ^ the yolk of an egg with it carefully, without curdling the yolk with too much heat, and add the juice of half a lemonSauce Allemande. Allemande sauce is Ger- man sauce 843— Rissolattes a la Marseillaise. Picked fish and cheese pounded to- gether, rolled up^ in pie paste and fried . Take cold whitefisn or any other that is free from bones, and half as much cheese, mince, and then pound them to- gether to a sort of paste and season with salt and pepper. Roll out a piece of good pie na5;teRissolattes a la Marseillaise vem .SAJV 7RANCISC0 HOTEL GAZETTE'S io9 thin, cut out with a biscuit cutter, make little turnovers or other shapes such as long rolls with a spoonful of the fish mix- ture inside and the edges nf the paste wetted with egg to ^ make them adhere. Drop the rissolettes into the same kettle of hot lard the potato crocjuettes are to be fried in. Take out while still light- colored and place on paper in a hot pan to absorb every particle of grease. Serve one or two to each dish with a green bor- der of fried parsley or a green puree, or chopped yolk of egg for ornament. Mar- seilles is a seaport and great place for fish dinners — hence the names. 844— Baked Tomatoes. Baked Tomatoes