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Filets de Soles Mignonette

A historical recipe from A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907).

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A historical recipe

A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #71395.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

France

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. ten slices of fresh truffle heated
  2. two-thirds oz. of butter

Method

  1. Cook the fillets in butter, and set them in a hot timbale.
  2. Surround them with potato-balls the size of peas, raised by means of the round spoon-cutter, and cooked beforehand in butter.
  3. Lay upon the fillets eight or ten slices of fresh truffle heated in one-sixth pint of very light meat-glaze.
  4. Finish the glaze in which the slices of truffle have been heated with two-thirds oz.
  5. of butter and a few drops of lemon juice, and pour it over the fillets and their garnish.
  6. Serve very hot.

Plating

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #71395 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71395). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.