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Ox-piths in Cases, with Fine Herbs

Ox-piths are cooked in d'Uxelles sauce, placed in paper cases, topped with fried breadcrumbs, and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Ox-piths in Cases, with Fine Herbs

about a dozen cases

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Prepare the ox-piths according to previous directions.

  2. Drain the ox-piths on a napkin and cut them into 1‑inch lengths.

  3. Place the cut ox-piths in a small stewpan with enough d'Uxelles sauce. Gently mix the ox-piths with the sauce.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill about a dozen small paper cases with the mixture.

  2. Sprinkle the surfaces of the cases with fried bread‑crumbs.

  3. Place the cases on a clean baking sheet.

  4. Warm the cases in a 350°F (175°C) oven for about 20 minutes before serving.

Serve

  1. Dish them up neatly in a pyramidal form and serve with fine herbs or brown Italian sauce.

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.

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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. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Ox-piths
Provide the main tender, chewy body of the filling.
D'uxelles sauce
Binds the pieces together and keeps the filling moist as it warms.
Fried bread-crumbs
Add a crisp, browned topping over the soft filling.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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