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The fat Duxelle

From Modern culinary art (1937).

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A historical recipe

Modern culinary art, by Henri-Paul Pellaprat (1937).

France

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. 2 spoonful onions
  2. 2 spoonful thick tomato mash
  3. 2 ozs cooked ham

Cook safely

  • 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. Composed of raw mushrooms, very finely chopped.
  2. After wringing in a cloth to extract water, pass through butter with 2 spoonful onions and a finely chopped shallot for a quantity of 40zs mushrooms.
  3. When they begin to toss, add 2 ozs cooked ham, meagre, hashed, then 2 spoonful thick tomato mash, salt and pepper.
  4. Stew some minutes and put in a bowl with oiled paper thereon.
  5. Meagre Duxelle.
  6. — Same preparation but not using ham.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mixing bowl
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From Modern culinary art (1937), printed page 114, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/BSG_4VSUP2819

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.