Menus Made Easy

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

Cakes and Pastry

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Cakes and Pastry

Gâteau Napolitaine is a cake composed of thin round pieces of a paste of pounded almonds, flour, butter, yolks of eggs, etc., spread with…

Cakes and Pastry: Genoese

Gâteau génoise aux abricots is a cake of Genoese paste cut in slices, spread with apricot marma lade, and put together again; covered with…

Cakes and Pastry: Biscuits

A Genoese cake cut into sandwiches with jam is served as Biscuits à la Vénitienne, coated with pink and white icing. As Puits d'amours it…

Cakes and Pastry: Petits

Petits gâteaux d'abricots are square pieces of puff paste folded over apricot marmalade. à la Polonaise are little folded envelopes of puff…

Cakes and Pastry: Pouding

Plum pouding - Plum pudding. A Christmas pudding is called Pouding de Noël. Little round blocks of plum pudding, the centres cut out and…

Cakes and Pastry: Beignets

Beignets d'abricots à la Chartres are apricot fritters. d'abricots à l'eau de vie-sandwiches of bread dipped in brandy and half apricots…

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