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The Great American Turtle. Part 10 |
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This section is from the book "The Post-Graduate Cookery Book", by Adolphe Meyer. Also available from Amazon: The Post-Graduate Cookery Book.
Slice fine 8 white onions; smother them slowly with 4 ounces of butter; when nearly cooked, add 1*^ pounds of cleaned and chopped fresh mushrooms (the tails will answer for this purpose), cook until their humidity is evaporated, then moisten with 1 gallon of thickened soup stock; let simmer for 45 minutes, add 1 quart of boiling cream, strain, season to taste, and bind as usual with 4 egg yolks, 2 gills of cream and 4 ounces of butter.
Mix 6 ounces of grated Parmesan cheese with 1 pint of cream and 8 egg yolks, dilute with 1 gallon of lightly thickened chicken broth and set on the range till it reaches the boiling point, but do not allow to boil. Strain through a cloth, season to taste and serve with Italian paste cooked in salted water.
Prepare 1 gallon of chicken consomme with tapioca. Before serving bind it with 12 egg yolks, 1 pint of cream and 4 ounces of butter. Garnish with 3 sorts of small quenelles (i. e., red, white and green).
Prepare 1 gallon of fish stock as follows:
Line the bottom of a saucepan with 4 sliced onions, 6 parsley roots, 2 bay leaves, 1 sprig of thyme and 3 cloves; lay on top of this 2 pounds of fish bones, and the bones of two pounds of smelts from which the fillets have been removed; moisten with I pint of dry white wine and let reduce to about one-half; then moisten with 5 quarts of water and let simmer for 1 hour; strain the broth and thicken slightly with a roux.
Next tie the fillets of smelts in a napkin and let boil in the thickened stock for twenty minutes; then take them out, and when cooled off pound with 1 cup of thick cream and 2 ounces of butter, and rub through a fine sieve. Five minutes before serving the soup, add the puree of smelts, another cup of cream and 2 ounces of butter; season to taste with salt and cayenne pepper, and serve with small quenelles made of fish cream force meat.
Heat 6 ounces of butter in a saucepan, add 100 selected soft clams, stew for 10 minutes, then moisten with 1 gallon of lightly thickened chicken stock; let simmer for 45 minutes, then rub through a fine sieve.
Season to taste with salt, a pinch of mace and cayenne; bind with 6 egg yolks, 1 pint of cream and 2 ounces of butter. Serve with croutons souffles separate.
Note. - Instead of chicken stock, fish stock, as described for Cream of Smelts, may be used.
Follow directions as given for Cream of Soft Clams, using half clam juice when preparing the stock.
Creme d'Huitres - Cream of Oysters. Follow directions as given for Cream of Hard Clams.
 
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