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Soyer's standard cookery

1912

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Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Garnish some small molds in any design according to taste. Put a small, cold, poached egg into each mold, fill up with melted, white jelly, and leave to set. Garnish the center of a dish with a vegetable salad; arrange the eggs taken from their molds around this, and surround with a little chopped jelly and quarters of yolk of hard-boiled eggs. Cold Eggs. Let a thin coat of jelly set upon the bottom and sides of some small, oval molds.Cold Eggs Garnish the latter to any fancy de- sign; now insert a very small, cold, poached egg into each mold, and fill up with a melted jelly. Garnish the center of a dish with a vegetable salad, encircled by sliced, cold potatoes, place the eggs, removed from their molds, all round. Border with jelly. Cold Eggs, Frou-Frou. Poach six eggs of equal size, cover them with a white chaud- froid sauce or mayonnaise combined with about a third of its volume of a puree of hard-boiled egg-yolks. Garnish the top of each egg with a slice of truffle, and sur- round the base of the eggs with a narrow ribbon of ox tongue cut very thin. Glaze with jellyCold Eggs, Frou-Frou, and leave to set on ice. Prepare a salad of green vegetables (peas, French beans 224 STANDARD COOKERY. cut into dice or lozenges, asparagus-tops) and thicken with a very little mayonnaise mixed with melted jelly. For dishing up place the salad in the middle of a dish and surround the base with a line of chopped jelly. Cold Eggs a la Neva. Cut off the ends of three hard-boiled eggs. Surround the tops and the bases with little anchovy fillets, and place a little caviare half-way along each egg. Eggs prepared in this way resemble little barrels of the anchovy fillets representing the iron hoops, and the bits of caviare the bungs. By means of a scraper empty the eggs with care; garnish them with truffle mayonnaise. Place each egg in an artichoke-bottom, garnished with finely- chopped jellCold Eggs a la Nevay, and arrange in a circle on a dish with chopped jelly. Cold Eggs a la Reine. Prepare six soft-boiled eggs to cool. Make as many crou- stades of potatoes as there are eggs. Garnish the bottom and the sides of these croustades with a fine mince of chicken- meat, thickened with mayonnaise, and season moderately. Place a shelled soft-boiled egg in each croustade; coat thinly with mayonnaise slightly thickened by means of one sheet of gelatine; lay a piece of truffleCold Eggs a la Reine on each egg, and when the sauce has set, glaze with jelly, using a fine brush for the purpose. Dish up on a napkin decorated to taste. Cold Eggs Deutschland. Season some cooked young shoots of hops with salt and pepper; add thereto some chopped parsley, and chervil, and a puree of plainly-cooked tomatoes mixed with jelly. Mold in oiled tartlet molds, and serve on glass dishCold Eggs Deutschland with a salad of hop shoots garnished with chopped aspic jelly. STANDARD COOKERY. 225 JOINTS. Hints About Roasting Meat,