Banquets of the nations

Whip the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, then add the orange and sugar syrup to it, drop by drop at first, and then quicker, whipping all the time. Now add the cream and mix well ; after which pour into a form and freeze for three hours, and turn out on to a crystal dish. Decorate with lithes or leaves of oranges from which you have removed the white pith seeds and clear skin. LXXXVI.— (R.H.C.'s) Menu Clear Soup Fillet of Sole a la Financier Steak larded with Truffles and Oysters Iced Asparagus and Cream Roast Ortolans Salad Baba au Rhum Savoury Gr£ce Fruit Clear Soup. Take a small knuckle of veal, same of venison and rough hough, five pounds in all, and half a dozen large giblets ; put in a pot and skim very carefully when coming to the boil. Boil gently but steadily for five or six hours, with a head of celery, a sliced carrot, half a turnip, a couple of sliced onions, a bunch of parsley, a bunch of chervil, a couple of bay leaves, two knots of lump sugar, with a seasoning of pepper and salt. Pour through a colander and let stand till cold, then remove the fat. Take a slice of ham, a sliced carrot and onion, and a piece of butter ; fry these till a thick glaze gathers on bottom of pan ; remove vegetables and ham, pour in a little stock to melt glaze. Strain and put in pot with the stock, along with one and a half breakfastcupfuls of fish stock made as follows : — Put the bones and trimmings of two good-sized soles (any white fish will do), in a pot with two quarts water, bring to the boil, and skim carefully ; then add half a pint white wine, a bunch of fine herbs, an onion stuck with four cloves, a teaspoonful of coriander seeds, half a carrot, and two ounces ham which has been fried very crisp and pounded to a powder. Boil quickly for a good hour. Strain and put on fire again, and reduce till quantity is only one and a half breakfastcupfuls. Boil up, clearing in the usual way with whites of eggs and shells. Put a glass of sherry and the squeeze of a quarter of lemon in the soup tureen before pouring in the soup. 670 R.H.C.'s Fillet of Sole a la Financier. Fillet a couple of good thick English soles. Butter a pan, in which place the fillets. Season with pepper and salt, pour half a pint of sound cider over them, place buttered paper on top, and push into the oven for ten minutes. Rich Fish Sauce Financier. Make a rich sauce with three ounces of fresh butter, one ounce of strong shrimp butter, one teaspoonful of flour, three tablespoonfuls of medium cream, two breakfastcupfuls of the strained liquor the fish was cooked in, the strained liquor of twelve oysters, and season with pepper, salt, and a grate of nutmeg. Bring all to the boil, stirring continually the one way all the time of cooking. Remove the pot from the fire and put it in a pan of boiling water. Then put the yolks of four eggs into the mixture and stir carefully till cooked. If too thin add the yolk of another egg, or if too thick add a little more liquor from the fish. Be careful not to boil the sauce after the eggs are added. Then add a half-pint bottle of cocks' combs, truffles, and champignons, a dozen raw oysters without the beards, and a dozen small balls about the size of a marble made of lobster forcemeat.