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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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Wild Duck

Roast wild ducks, cut in joints, are served as- Canards, or Canetons, sauvages en salmis, with a salmis sauce. à la bigarade with bigarade sauce. à la Muette-in a rich salmis sauce with wine and truffles.

The fillets as- Filets de canetons sauvages au fumet de gibier are served with fumet of game sauce. à l'essence-served with a brown game sauce, port wine, shallots, etc. à la Syrienne-dressed alternately with slices of fried bread spread in a dome shape with the livers with butter, etc.; served with brown game sauce and olives.

TEAL.

Teal are dressed in the same way as wild ducks; also as- Sarcelles à la purée de champignons-cut in joints and arranged in a circle with a purée of mushrooms in the centre; served with a macédoine garnish, they are called à la macédoine.

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