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Fowl, Duck, Game, Hare: Insalata
No. 178. Insalata di patate (Potato salad) Ingredients: New potatoes, oil, white vinegar, onions, parsley, tarragon, chervil, celery, cream, salt, pepper, tarragon vinegar, watercress, cucumber, truffles.
Steam as many new potatoes as you require until they are well cooked, let them get cold, cut them into slices and pour three teaspoonsful of salad oil and one of white vinegar over them. Then rub a salad bowl with onion, put in a layer of the potato slices, and sprinkle with chopped parsley, tarragon, chervil, and celery, then another layer of potatoes until you have used all the potatoes; cover them with whipped cream seasoned with salt, pepper, and a little tarragon vinegar, and garnish the top with watercress, a few thin slices of truffle cooked in white wine, and some slices of cooked cucumber.
No. 179. Insalata alla Navarino (Salad) Ingredients: Peas, beans, onions, potatoes, tarragon, chives, parsley, tomatoes, anchovies, oil, vinegar, ham. Mix a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a teaspoonful of chopped onion, a teaspoonful of tarragon and chopped chives with half a gill of oil and half a gill of vinegar.
Put this into a salad bowl with all sorts of cooked vegetables-peas, haricot beans, small onions, and potatoes cut up, and mix them well but gently, so as not to break the vegetables. Then add two or three anchovies in oil, and on the top place three or four ripe tomatoes cut in slices.
A little cooked smoked ham cut in dice added to this salad is a great improvement.
No. 180. Insalata di pomidoro (Tomato Salad) Ingredients: Tomatoes, mayonnaise, shallot, horseradish, gherkin, anchovies, fish, cucumber, lettuce, chervil, tarragon, eggs. a Mix the following ingredients: two anchovies in oil boned and minced, a gill of mayonnaise sauce, a little grated horse-radish, very little chopped shallot, a little cold salmon or trout, and a small gherkin chopped. With this mixture stuff some ripe tomatoes. Then make a good salad of endive or lettuce, a teaspoonful of chopped tarragon and chervil, season it with oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper (the proportions should be three of oil to one of vinegar), put a layer of slices of cucumber in the salad, place the tomatoes on the top of these, and decorate them with hard-boiled eggs passed through a wire sieve.
No. 181. Tartufi alla Dino (Truffles) Ingredients: Truffles, fowl forcemeat, champagne. a Allow one truffle for each person, scoop out the inside, chop it up fine and mix with a good forcemeat of fowl.
With this fill up the truffles, place a thin layer of truffle on the top of each, and cook them in champagne in stewpan for about half an hour. Then take them out, make a rich sauce, to which add the champagne you have used and some of the chopped truffle, put the truffles in this sauce and keep hot for ten minutes. Serve in paper soufflé cases.