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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.
847— Fillets of Redfish a la Chambord Individual. Thin fillets spread with a paste or force- meat containing lobster, rolled up and baked and served with a lobster sauce . Chambon is the name of a part of France on the sea coast and also a count's title. The redfish is from the Florida coast where it is also called red grouper . Slice the fish lengthwise into fillets thin and broad like fillets of sole and as small as possible, pound a quarter can of lob- ster to a paste, add as much panada (soaked and squeezed bread) season it, add a raw yolk. Spread the fillets with the mixture thinly, roll them np, and lay in a pan and bake with butter and water just enough to keep them moist, and baste twice. They will cook in about 30 minutes . Pound the reddest pieces of lobster meat and rub it through a sieve, mix it with a little good butter sauce; slice in 3 or 4 mushrooms and as many shrimps, if at hand, or a tew pieces of lobster cut in dice and season with pepperFillets of Redfish a la Chambord and lemon juice. Serve a fillet to each plate >'^h sauce and some special form of potato in the same. man resort, a sort of Saratoga* 848— Potatoes a la MonaCvf. Cut cores out of raw potatoes with an apple corer or column cutter, and slice them into thick lozenge shapes like gun- wads. Boil first, then fry in a kettle of lard. Before serving, shake them about in a pan with a lump of butter, dredge with salt and fine minced parsley. Serve with fish . Monaco is the name of a ger- 849— Mutton a la Bretonne. Mutton and beans. The French equivalent for our pork and beans. The frequency of the sign in the windows of French restaurants seems to indicate that it is in demand at least for a lunch dish. Take a shoulder of mutton and remove the bone by cutting close, laying out the meat like a thick steak. To season it mince one onion and crush a clove of garlic with the side of your knife and mix it in and stew over the meat, dredge thyme or sage, salt and pepper, roll up and tie and then braise the meat in a covered pan with broth or water at first, allowing it to dry down and brown like a roast at last. Boil two cups of white beansMutton a la Bretonne in the usual way while the mutton is braising. Take the mutton out of the saucepan and cook a little minced ham and onion in the gravy that remains, then put in the cooked beans and shake up. Serve beans in the dish with a cut of the roll of mutton on top. 850-Chicken Pie, American Style, When you make chicken pie cut down the quantities of all other meats and cut down the vegetables and leave out the third entree altogether that there may be afforded enough of this and without haying to serve the roughest pieces of chicken . It is one of the favorite dishes alike in the largest hotels and the small- est and it is poor policy to make it a dis- appointment ill either place. Let there be a surplus of the liquor the chicken is stP,w..^.d in left over to pour into the pie as it dries down while dinner is going on, for the cry is '* still they come"' — no, not that but ''plenty of gravy and more of the crust." Chicken Pie, American Style