Sweetbreads braisé au jus. (Glacé). Place in buttered sauté pan one sliced onion, one carrot, a little parsley, a bay leaf and a clove, and a few pepper berries. Put three parboiled sweetbreads, which may be larded with fresh or salted pork if desired, on top, add one-half cup of bouillon, salt, and put over fire to boil. When reduced place in oven, add a small quantity of meat extract, and glacé by basting continually with its own broth, until well browned. When done lay on platter and strain the broth over them.
Bisque d'écrevisses. Remove the tails of three dozen écrevisses. Use two-thirds of the shells, broken up, to make the soup, and one-third for écrevisse butter. Simmer in butter one onion, one carrot, a leek and a little celery, all cut up; with one bay leaf, some thyme and one spoonful of black pepper berries. Then add the broken shells, two spoonsful of flour, one glass of white wine, one-half glass of brandy, one gallon of bouillon and one cup of raw rice. Season with salt and Cayenne pepper, cook till rice is very soft, and strain through fine sieve. Bisque should be a little thicker than other cream soups. Before serving add two spoonsful of écrevisse butter and stir well, then add the écrevisse tails and one-half glass of Cognac.
Écrevisse butter. Break fine in mortar some écrevisse (crayfish) shells. Put in sauce pan with one-half pound of butter, one-half onion, one-half carrot, a small piece of celery, one-half of a leek stalk, a little thyme, one bay leaf and a few pepper berries, and simmer in oven till butter is clarified, or clear, and all the other liquids evaporated. Squeeze through cheese cloth into a bowl standing in ice. The butter will rise to the top, and may be easily removed when cold. This butter is used with many sauces, soups, etc.
Lobster butter. Use lobster shells and prepare in the same manner as écrevisse butter. This butter is used for lobster sauce, Newburg dishes, soups, etc.
DECEMBER 26
| BREAKFAST | LUNCHEON | ||||
| Stewed prunes | Grapefruit en suprême | ||||
| Boiled eggs | Cold goose and ham, apple sauce | ||||
| Toast | Romaine salad | ||||
| Tea | Brie cheese | ||||
| Crackers | |||||
| Coffee | |||||
| DINNER | |||||
| Potage bonne femme | |||||
| Roast ruddy duck | |||||
| Fried hominy and currant jelly | |||||
| Cold asparagus, mustard sauce | |||||
| Baba au rhum | |||||
| Coffee | |||||
Potage bonne femme. Purée of white beans with Julienne of vegetables.
Fillet of sole, Florentine. Put the fillet of one sole in a buttered pan, salt, add one-half glass of water mixed with white wine, and boil until done. In the center of a buttered platter put a cup of purée of spinach and place the boiled fillet on top, cover with Mornay sauce, with grated cheese and small bits of butter on top of the sauce. Bake in oven until brown.
Roast ruddy duck. Roast for twelve minutes, in the same manner as teal duck.