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How to order dinner and give the dishes their French names — the 1907 course-by-course phrasebook of the Edwardian table.

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Choux de Bruxelles à la Maître d'hôtel are boiled, and served in Maître d'hôtel sauce. Sautés, they are sauté in butter with lemon, etc. À la Française, they are dressed with alternate layers of a white sauce with cream and grated cheese, covered with breadcrumbs and hardboiled yolk of egg, and garnished with croûtons. CABBAGE.

Choux farcis-the heart is cut out, and a stuffing of sausage-meat, etc., put between each leaf; it is braised, and served in the sauce. en surprise the heart cut out, it is filled with sausage-meat and boiled chestnuts, and stewed.

CARDOONS.

Boiled cardoons are served au velouté-in white sauce; à l'Espagnole in brown sauce; or au gratin -covered with breadcrumbs, sprinkled with melted butter, and browned. If grated cheese is mixed with the breadcrumbs, they are called à l'Italienne. Cardons au jus are stewed, and served in brown sauce with beef marrow. Garnished with pieces of toast spread with beef marrow, they they are called à la moëlle.

A purée of cardoons with cream, etc., garnished with croûtons, is served as Purée de cardons aux croûtons.

CARROTS.

Boiled and cut in shapes, carrots are served as- Carottes à la Béchamel, in Béchamel sauce, garnished with croûtons; or à la pouletteglazed, and served in Poulette sauce. à la Flamande are served in a tomato sauce, garnished with pieces of cooked tomatoes on croûtons. à la ménagère are cut in slices and served in a white sauce with wine, herbs, etc. aux petits pois-cut in dice and served with peas in a white sauce. au sucre-mashed, and dressed with milk, sugar, eggs, etc., the top sprinkled with sugar. à l'Indienne-served in a curry sauce with a border of rice. à la Malden are stewed, and served in a vol-auvent with slices of beef marrow, capers, and a rich brown sauce.

Young carrots stewed in white sauce are called Petites carottes, or Carottes nouvelles, à la sauce blanche.

Stewed and glazed, they are glacées; or à l'Allemande, served with Allemande, or brown sauce. CAULIFLOWERS.

Chouxfleurs au gratin are masked with a white

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