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Poulet Sauté Fedora

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 4 ingredients

  1. four oz. of raw
  2. three tablespoonfuls of Béchamel sauce
  3. one and one-half oz. of crayfish butter
  4. four oz. of parboiled asparagus-heads

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. Sauté the chicken in butter, without colouration, with four oz.
  2. of raw, sliced truffles;
  3. and dish.
  4. Swill with one-sixth pint of cream;
  5. add three tablespoonfuls of Béchamel sauce, and reduce to half.
  6. Finish, away from the fire, with one and one-half oz.
  7. of crayfish butter, a few drops of lemon juice, and a little cayenne;
  8. add four oz.
  9. of parboiled asparagus-heads to this sauce, and pour it over the chicken.
  10. Or, after having cohered them with butter, the asparagus-heads may be arranged in heaps round the fowl.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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.