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Practical gastronomy and culinary dictionary

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
320. Darne de Saumon a la Chambord. — Wash and dry a middle cut of salmon weighing about four pounds ; put it in a stewpan with one and a half pint of stock, one carrot, an onion stuck with a clove, one gill of white wine, one ounce of butter, a bouquet garni, and a few peppercorns ; season with a little salt, cover it over and simmer slowly over the fire for about an hour. When done take up the salmon, strain the stock into a small saucepa.n, add one ladleful of Espagnole sauce and one of tomato sauce ; let boil for ten mmutes, skim well, stir in two pats of fresh butter, a teaspoonful of anchovy paste, the juice of a lemon, and pass through a tammy cloth. Have ready a garnishing consisting of twenty-four small poached fish quenelles (made with whiting forcemeat. No. 228), twelve mushroom heads, eight crayfish tails, eight cooked oysters, and three sliced truffles. Dish up the piece of salmon, remove the skin on the surface, garnish top and side with the garni- ture and a decorated atelet skewer ; sauce over gently, and serve the remaiader of the sauce in a boat. 321. Saumon en Papillotes. — 2 lb. salmon, J lb. cooked ham, 2 oz. butter, 2 shallots, 1 small onion, 8 mushrooms, 1 tablespoonful parsley (chopped), 1 tea- spoonful salt, ^ teaspoonful pepper. Cut the salmon into six or eight even slices, remove the skin, beat them gently with a bat, season with salt and pepper, and roll them. Cut out as many heart- shaped pieces of paper as you have slices, grease them well with butter or oil. Cut double the quantity of thin slices of ham. Peel and chop finely the shallots and onion, put them in a saucepan, with an ounce of butter, previously heated, and brown slightly. Then add the parsley and mushrooms chopped fine, season DRESSED FISH AND FISH ENTREES (HOT). 459 with salt and pepper and let cool. Lay a slice of ham on each piece of paper, spread over these a layer of the cooked herbs, place a rolled slice of salmon on each, spread with a thin layer of cooked herbs, and cover with another slice of ham, then fold the paper and twist the edges together, or tie up with string. Put them on a buttered baking-tin or sautoir, and bake for twenty minutes in a slow oven. Have ready a hot dish, remove the fish from the tin, and if tied remove the string, dress them neatly on the dish, leaving the paper on, and serve hot. 322. Mousselines de Saumon a la Cardinal. — 1 lb. salmon, ^ oz. butter, ^ pint well-reduced bechamel, No. 167, 1 white of egg, lobster coral, 2 truffles. Seasoning, Cardinal sauce. No. 162. Skim and bone the salmon, pound in a mortar until quite fine, add gradually the reduced bechamel sauce and the white of egg. Season with pepper, salt, and a pinch of cayenne or Nepaul pepper. Put through a fine wire or hair sieve, and keep on the ice until wanted. Butter a number of small dariole or timbale moulds, decorate the bottom and sides of each with fanciful cut slices of truffles, sprinkle all over the inside with finely chopped dried lobster coral. Fill them with the salmon forcemeat, steam for twenty- five minutes, dish up on a hot dish, and serve with Sauce Cardinal.