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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a dessertspoonful of cream
  2. Four oz. of fresh butter
  3. Cut
  4. Salt
  5. two oz. of Parmesan

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Make the pieces of toast round, and cover with a thick coating of the following preparation, viz.
  2. : — Four oz.
  3. of fresh butter, softened;
  4. two oz, of fresh Gruy^re and two oz.
  5. of Parmesan, both grated ;
  6. a dessertspoonful of cream, and a little salt and cayenne.
  7. Cover this preparation with two half-discs, which when juxtaposed are equal in circumference to the round of the toast.
  8. The half-discs should be cut respectively from a Lyons sausage and a Gruy^re cheese;
  9. both should be thin, and equal in thickness.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Grater
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Credit

From A guide to modern cookery (1907), printed page 146, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924000610117

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.