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Poularde aux Champignons a Brun

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. one-quarter pint of half-glaze
  2. two oz. of fresh butter

Cook safely

  • 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. Poële the pullet, and swill the saucepan with mushroom essence.
  2. Add this swilling-liquor (reduced) to one-quarter pint of half-glaze with Madeira.
  3. Dish the pullet, and surround it with twenty grooved and cooked mushroom-heads.
  4. Serve separately the reduced half-glaze, to which add two oz.
  5. of fresh butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
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.