Menus Made Easy

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

Entrées

32 pages in this part of Menus Made Easy.

Entrées

THE fillet, or undercut of the sirloin, is the part most used in the preparation of entrées. It is cut in little slices and dressed as…

Entrées: Slices

Tournedos à la sauce poivrade. Slices of cooked fillet dressed in a crown alternately with fried slices of bread of the same size; Poivrade…

Entrées: Petites

Petits pains à la Ménagère are little moulds of minced beef served with brown sauce and mushrooms. The same preparation may be made into…

Entrées: Robert

Palais de bœuf à la Robert. Ox palates cut in round or oval pieces, and served with Robert This dish may be served with other sauce.

Entrées: Parmesan

Ox-tongue is served as- Langue de bœuf au Parmesan. Slices cooked with stock, wine, and grated Parmesan. en papillotes. Slices wrapped in…

Entrées: Bourgeoise

Crème de veau is a cream of veal steamed in a mould. It is served à la Périgueux, with Périgueux sauce. À la Richelieu, it is steamed in a…

Entrées: Ris-de-veau

Sweetbreads are dressed as- Ris-de-veau à la Villeroi. Slices coated with ENTRÉES.

Entrées: Served

Hâtelettes de ris de veau are larded slices of sweetbread, roasted and served on little skewers. Côtelettes de ris de veau are slices of…

Entrées: Chaudfroid

For Chaudfroid de côtelettes à l'aspic they are spread with forcemeat in a mound, coated with brown sauce, and served cold on a border of…

Entrées: Filets

Filets de mouton à la Française are mutton chops cut from the loin, broiled and served with fried potatoes.

Entrées: Carbonade

Carbonade de mouton (see Removes) is dressed as an entrée, cut in slices, and served with Piquante, Poivrade, or other sauce. The slices…

Entrées: Turque

Ragoût de mouton à la Turque is stewed mutton, served with stuffed cucumbers. Served with a purée of tomatoes, it is called à l'Américaine…

Entrées: Indienne

Bobotages à l'Indienne are made of pounded mutton, curried, steamed in little moulds, and served with a curry sauce.

Entrées: Sheep

Sheep's Tongues are served as- Langues de mouton braisées-larded, braised, and served in the sauce with capers. au parmesan-braised, and…

Entrées: Lambs

Lambs' Feet are dressed en marinade and à la poulette, in the same manner as sheep's feet.

Entrées: Sweetbreads

Lambs' Sweetbreads are dressed as- Ris d'agneau à la Munich-larded and braised; served with rice, and cocoanut sauce. à l'aspic-set in…

Entrées: Escalopes

Escalopes de porc à la Lyonnaise are fillets cut in oval slices, breadcrumbed and fried; dressed in a border, covered with Soubise sauce…

Entrées: Quenelles

Ham for an entrée may be minced or pounded, steamed in little moulds, and served with spinach as Petits pains de jambon aux épinards…

Entrées: Cardinal

Sauté de filets de volaille à la Cardinal is composed of sauté fillets arranged in a circle with alternate slices of truffle; Cardinal…

Entrées: Cuisses

Legs of fowls are also boned, stuffed with forcemeat, and served as Cuisses de volaille, or poulardes, à la jardinière, with a Jardinière…

Entrées: Reine

Small puff paste patties filled with minced chicken and white sauce, with tongue, mushrooms or truffles, are served as Petites bouchées, or…

Entrées: Croquettes

Croquettes de volaille aux truffes are made with chopped truffles instead of ham or tongue, and are served with truffle sauce. Dressed with…

Entrées: Boudins

Boudins de volaille à la Lucullus are quenelles of chicken forcemeat with a piece of purée of truffles in the centre of each; served in a…

Entrées: Timbale

Timbale de Nouilles is a mould lined with paste, filled with German paste, minced chicken, grated cheese, etc.

Entrées: Salmis

The legs of roast ducks, in a sauce of stock and wine with shallots, etc., are served as Salmis de cuisses de canetons.

Entrées: Italienne

Émincé de dinde à l'Italienne are slices served with Italian sauce and gherkins.

Entrées: Chipolata

Abatis de dinde à la Chipolata are the giblets stewed and served with Chipolata garnish.

Entrées: Czarina

Côtelettes de pigeons à la Czarina are fillets ENTRÉES. breadcrumbed and fried, and a small piece of bone stuck in each to imitate cutlet…

Entrées: Poivrade

Côtelettes de venaison à l'Américaine are served with a rich Espagnole sauce. au jus de groseilles-with Poivrade sauce and red currant…

Entrées: Civet

Civet de chevreuil is jugged roebuck.

Entrées: Lapereau

Cut in joints, Rabbits are served as- Lapereau, or Lapin, sauté aux fines herbes-sauté, and served in fine-herbs sauce. sauté aux…

Entrées: Perdreaux

Perdreaux en ragoût, or en gibelotte, are cut in joints, stewed and served in a rich game sauce.

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