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Sauté de Veau a la Catalane

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. six oz. of raw
  2. ten small onions

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. Cut up, sauté, and cook the veal gently for one and one-half hours, as for No.
  2. 1280.
  3. Transfer the pieces of veal to another saucepan, and add to them three small peeled and pressed tomatoes, quartered and tossed in butter;
  4. ten small onions cooked in butter;
  5. six oz.
  6. of raw, quartered mushrooms;
  7. ten chestnuts, three-parts cooked in consommé, and eight Chipolata sausages.
  8. Reduce the sauce to one-third of a pint;
  9. strain it over the veal and its garnish;
  10. cook for a further quarter of an hour, and dish in a timbale.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Sieve
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.