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Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide

1880

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Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Heap the potatoes around the edge of the dish, garnish with parsley, and serve. To Remove a Fillet from a Fowl or Bird. Draw the skin off of the breast, and then run a sharp knife between the flesh and the ribs and breast-bone. You will ir this way separate the two fillets from the body of the bird. The legs and wings of the largest birds and fowl can be boned, and stuffed with force-meat, and then prepared the same as, and served with, the fillet. The body of the bird can be used for soups. Fillets from all kinds of birds can be prepared the same as those from chickens. Chicken Fillets, Larded and Breaded. Lard the fillets, having four fine strips of pork for each one, and season with salt and pepper. Dip in beaten egg and in ENTREES. 181 fine bread crumbs. Fry ten minutes in boiling fatChicken Fillets, Larded and Breaded. Serve on a hot dish with a spoonful of Tartare sauce on each. Chicken Fillets, Braised. Lard the fillets as for breading. For each one lay a slice of fat pork in the bottom of the braising pan, and on this a very small piece of onion. Dredge the fillets well with salt, pepper and flour, and place them on the pork and onion. Cover the pan, and set on the stove. Cook slowly half an hour; then add one pint of light stock or water and the bones of one of the chickens. Cover the pan, and place in a moderate oven for one hour, basting frequently with the gravy. If the gravy should cook away, add a little more stock or water, (there should be nearly a pint of it at the end of the hour). Take up the fillets, and drain; then cover them with soft butter, and dredge lightly with flour. Broil till a light brown. Serve on a hot dish with the sauce poured around. Or, they can be dressed on a mound of mashed po- tato, with a garnish of any green vegetable at the base, the sauce to be poured around it. To make the sauce : Skim all the fat from the gravy in which the fillets were cooked. Cook one table- spoonful of butter and one heaping teaspoonful of flour together until a ]ight brown ; then add the gravy, and boil up once. Taste to see if seasoned enough, and strain. Chicken Fillets, Saute. Flatten the fillets by pounding them lightly with the vege- table masher. Season with pepper and salt, and dredge well with flour. Put in the frying-pan one table -spoonful of but- ter for each fillet, and when hot, put the fillets in, and cook rather slowly twenty minutes. Brown on both sides. Take up, and keep hot while making the sauce. If there are six fillets, add two table -spoonfuls of butter to that remaining in 182 MISS PARLOA'S NEW COOK BOOK. the frying-pan, and when melted, stir in one table-spoonful of flour. Stir until it begins to brown slightly ; then slowly add one and a half cupfuls of cold milk, stirring all the while. Let this boil one minute. Season with salt, pepper and, if you like, a little mustard . Fill the centre of a hot dish with green peas or mashed potatoes, against which rest the fillets ; and pour the sauce around. Serve very hot. Chicken Curry. Chicken Curry