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Sweetbreads, Dubarry Style

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 471, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

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Ingredients

Method

  1. (Fr.—Ris de Veau a la Dubarry.) Ingredients.
  2. — 2 heart sweetbreads, larding bacon, slices of cooked ague, £ of a pint of Hollandaise sauce, £ of a pint of Madere sauce (see Sauces), £ a pint of stock, a mirepoix of sliced onion, i sliced carrot, % a sliced turnip, a bouquet-garni (parsley, thyme, bay-leaf), 6 peppercorns, i large cauliflower, salt and pepper.
  3. Method.
  4. — Blanch, press, and braise the sweetbreads (see Nos.
  5. 765).
  6. Prepare the 2 sauces as directed, cook the cauliflower, divide it into small sprays, re-heat in the Hoilandaise sauce, and warm the slices of tongue between 2 plates over a saucepan of boiling water.
  7. Remove the sweetbreads from the stewpan, strain the liquor into a smaller pan, boil rapidly, and when sufficiently reduced add to it the Madere sauce, and season to taste.
  8. Cut the sweetbreads into slices, arrange them with alternate slices of tongue in a circle on a hot dish, strain the Madere sauce over, and pile the cauliflower in the centre.
  9. Serve hot.
  10. Time.
  11. — About i hour.
  12. Average Cost, 75.
  13. 6d.
  14. to 93.
  15. 6d.
  16. Sufficient for 7 or 8 persons.