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Sole A La Fermiere

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France

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one oz. of butter
  2. Sole
  3. one-third pint of excellent red wine
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • 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. Put the sole, seasoned, on a buttered dish with a few aromatics.
  2. Add one-third pint of excellent red wine, and poach gently with lid on.
  3. Dish up;
  4. strain the cooking-lfquor, and reduce it to half;
  5. thicken it with a lump of manied butter the size of a hazel-nut, and finish the sauce with one oz.
  6. of butter.
  7. Encircle the sole with a border of mushrooms sliced raw and tossed in butter.
  8. Pour the prepared sauce over the sole, and set to glaze quickly.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Sieve