The Cook's Decameron

A novel with two hundred Italian recipes inside it: ten friends dine together for ten days, argue about food and cooks and country, and each day's talk ends in the day's menu.

Recipes

14 pages in this part of The Cook's Decameron.

Recipes

PAGE SAUCES 8. Tarragon Sauce • 99 NO. 1. Espagnole 2. Veluté Sauce PAGE 9. Tomato Sauce 99 or Brown 10. Tomato Sauce Piquante 100 Sauce 0…

Recipes (SAUCES As the three chief)

SAUCES As the three chief foundation sauces in cookery, Espagnole or brown sauce, Veluté or white sauce, and Béchamel, are alluded to so…

Recipes: Sauce

No. 2. Veluté Sauce The same as above, but use white stock, no beef, and only pheasant or fowl trimmings, button mushrooms, cream instead…

Recipes: Ingredients

No. 4. Mirepoix Sauce (for masking) Ingredients: Bacon, onions, carrots, ham, a bunch of herbs, parsley, mushrooms, cloves, peppercorns…

Recipes: Muscat

No. 7. Ham Sauce, Salsa di Prosciutto Ingredients: Ham, Muscat or sweet port, vinegar, basil, spice.

Recipes: Clear

SOUPS No. 19. Clear Soup Ingredients: Stock meat, water, a bunch of herbs (thyme, parsley, chervil, bay leaf, basil, marjoram), three…

Recipes: Parmesan

No. 23. Venetian Soup Ingredients: Clear soup, butter, flour, Parmesan, eggs.

Recipes: Minestra

No. 36. Minestra alla Casalinga and Turnips Ingredients: Rice, turnips, butter, gravy, tomatoes.

Recipes: Mullet

No. 47. Triglie alla Marinara (Mullet) Ingredients: Mullet, salt, pepper, onions, parsley, oil, water.

Recipes: Oysters

No. 55. Ostriche alla Livornese (Oysters) Ingredients: Oysters, parsley, shallot, anchovies, fennel, pepper, bread crumbs, cream, lemon.

Recipes: Sogliole

No. 60. Sogliole in Zimino (Sole) Ingredients: Sole, onion, beetroot, butter, celery, tomato sauce or white wine.

Recipes: Fillet

Fillet a sole and put it in a sauté-pan with one and a half ounces of butter and a clove of garlic with one cut in it, then sprinkle over…

Recipes: Cover

Fillet a sole and interlard each piece with a bit of anchovy. Tie up the fillets and put them in a sauté-pan with two ounces of butter, a…

Recipes: Salmon

No. 65. Salmone alla Genovese (Salmon) Ingredients : Salmon, Genoese sauce (No. 5), butter, lemon.

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