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

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.

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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.

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France. Associated with France by the book is about French cookery (Cooking, French); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Put the sausages in a well-buttered sautépan;
  2. poach them gently in the oven, and dish them on thin crusts of bread fried in butter.
  3. For twelve sausages, swill the sautépan with one-sixth pint of white wine;
  4. reduce this to half;
  5. add one-sixth pint of half-glaze sauce;
  6. boil for a few minutes, and finish, away from the fire, with one and one-half oz.
  7. of butter.
  8. Pour this sauce over the sausages.