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Sole Montreuil

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 This recipe is known as French, but other nations also prepare similar recipes.

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.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. one-half oz. of butter

Method

  1. Poach the sole in one-sixth pint of fish fumet, one-sixth pint of white wine, and one-half oz.
  2. of butter.
  3. Drain as soon as poached, and surround with potato-balls the size of walnuts, cooked in salted water, and kept whole.
  4. Cover the sole with white-wine sauce, and lay a thread of shrimp sauce over the garnish.

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