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Why it works: Whiting and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Menu II

Ingredients

Directions

  1. (January.')

  2. Fetits crimes k la Dieppoise.

  3. Odtelettes de veau k la Bordelaise.

  4. Poudiag k, la Turque.

  5. Bouch6es k la Dauphise.

  6. I. These can be made of any white fish. I will take a sixpenny whiting. Order it to be sent home as it is. Take the flesh from each side in two fillets, and put them aside separately, creams with Chop up the head, bones, and skin, put shrimp them into a stewpan, moisten with half a pint each of cold milk and water ; season with salt and pepper, bring slowly to the boil over a low fire, then add two ounces of minced onion, half one of celery, a sprig of parsley, and a teaspoonful of dried herbs. Simmer forty-five minutes and strain. Put the strained broth into a saute-p3.n with an upright rim, boil, put in the fillets, reduce to simmering, and as soon as soft take them out, put them into a mortar, and pound them to a paste ; weigh, and for six ounces of whiting allow two ounces of butter or fat of cooked ham, and two ounces of bread panada; mix, and pass all through a wire sieve. Now add to the puree thus obtained two whole eggs and the yolk only of another. Beat well together, season, add a tablespoonful of cream, put the mixture

  7. into buttered darioles, tap each smartly on a folded cloth laid on the table to cause the filling to be even, and poach very gently about thirty-five minutes. The steaming should be done in this vs^ay : — Choose a roomy stewpan, lay a sheet of paper folded in four at the bottom of it, pour in hot water about an inch deep, set on the fire, and when nearly boiling shp in the darioles ; let boiling begin, but at once reduce to gentle simmering, keeping the pan covered. While this is proceeding, turn the broth in which the fillets were cooked to a sauce, thickening with half an ounce of butter and half an ounce of flour. Bring to the boil, pass through a hair sieve, add three pennyworth of picked shrimps finely minced and a tablespoonful of cream. When the creams are ready turn them out of the moulds, dish in a circle on a hot dish, and mask with the sauce. A pile of cooked fillets of cucumber may be arranged in the centre. This dish may be made of previously cooked fish, but in that case it would be advisable to get a few fish-cuttings to make a broth for the sauce. The creams can also be served cold, masked with the sauce, reduced to such a consistency as to coat them, cucumber or other salading in the centre, dressed with mayonnaise sauce. To get a smooth masking omit the shrimps in making the sauce, and use them in the salad.

  8. 2. Choose six veal cutlets, trim them neatly, and lard them in the ordinary manner. Set them aside while you prepare a satUe- or fricandeau- Veal cutlets pan with a cover, to receive them in this with Borde- ^ -d . . ■. r ■.,

  9. laise sauce, manner : — Butter its surface with an

  10. ounce and a half of butter, lay over that

  11. ENDIVE PUREE. 9

  12. three ounces each of finely minced onion, carrot, and turnip, and the peelings and stalks (chopped small) of a quarter of a pound of mushrooms ; season with pepper, salt, and powdered herbs ; fry for five minutes, then add an ounce of meat glaze ; melt this and lay the cutlets on the surface of the vegetables, larded side uppermost. Moisten now with hot broth in sufficient quantity to come level with the surfaces of the cutlets, cover them with a buttered paper, cover the pan, and simmer gently for about an hour and a quarter ; when quite tender take the pan from the fire, remove the cutlets, strain off the broth into a bowl, wipe out the pan, brush off any pieces of vegetable that may adhere to the cutlets, and lay them in the pan again. Have ready melted an ounce of glaze, dilute this with half a gill of the strained broth, push the pan into the oven, and glaze the cutlets by basting them with the melted glaze. When heated through and nicely glazed, arrange the cutlets in a line on a small hot joint dish (silver if possible) garnished with endive puree, and send this sauce round in a boat. Having skimmed off all fat from the broth, take two gills of it, add one gill of good thick tomato puree, boil up, add a teaspoonful of cornflour diluted with broth, skim, strain, and serve.

  13. Remove the outside leaves from two heads of endive of a good size, wash them well, cut each in four, and plunge the pieces into fast-boiling salted water ; boil for twenty or twenty- ^^^f-f^^ five minutes, drain, " refresh " them with

  14. a douche of cold water, and, after pressing all mois- ture from them, turn them out on a board and chop them up as small as possible. Melt two ounces of butter in a stewpan, put in the chopped endives, dust over with salt and a pinch of powdered mace, and stir without stopping over a moderate fire until the vegetable has absorbed the butter ; next moisten with half a gill of ci^eam, good white sauce, or milk, stir till well mixed and of a fairly thick consistency, and arrange the fiiree round the cutlets.

  15. 3. Make a pint of coffee custard in this way : —

  16. Roast four ounces of coffee-berries by moving

  17. „ „ them about over a low fire in a saute-

  18. custard pan, lubricated with half an ounce of

  19. ^iddinga butter. Boil three-quarters of a pint

  20. of milk, take it off the fire, empty the

  21. newly roasted berries into it, and let them thus soak,

  22. covered up, in a warm place for about an hour.

  23. Strain, and turn the milk to a custard with four eggs,

  24. sweetening with an ounce of sugar. Strain this when

  25. made. Choose a pint border mould with a hollow

  26. rim, butter it well, line it with crushed ratafias, pour

  27. in the custard, and steam gently (process given in

  28. No. i) till firm. Let it get cold in the mould, then

  29. turn it out, glaze it with diluted apricot jam, fill the

  30. hollow rim with preserved chei'ries, and send apricot

  31. sauce in a boat separately : — Put three tablespoonfuls

  32. of the jam in a gill of water, with a liqueur-glass of

  33. rum ; boil, pass through a strainer, and let it get cold.

  34. 4. Choose a dozen feoMcAec-moulds, line them with

  35. COFFEE CUSTARD PUDDING A LA TURQUE. ii

  36. melted aspic jelly about an eighth of an inch thick, keep them on ice, fill them with anchovy cream, and when set tm-n them out ; dish in a circle, and garnish with hard-boiled eggs and cress. For the anchovy cream take four hard-boiled yolks of egg, twelve fillets of anchovy, and two tablespoonfuls of mayon- naise sauce ; pound, and pass all through a hair sieve, add a giU of diluted aspic, and fill the hollows of the lined bouchee-m.o\AdiS. Let this set.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1287Calories
86 gProtein
42 gFat
141 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 23 ingredients. The other 8 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Anchovy100g210
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Whitingnot in our table0
Endivenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Macenot in our table0
Coffeenot in our table0
Vealnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Kenney-Herbert, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1840-1916. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Endive + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, whiting, butter, bread, tomato, sauce, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, whiting, butter, bread, tomato, sauce, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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