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December 24,
1938.
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Alternate alices of ininted and clunamon pine pple on a bed of parsley or watereress makes a delicious garnish that brides can try with roast turkey or baked ham for Christmas. For the cinnamon rings add a handful of red cinnamon candles to the syrup from a can of pineapple. For the minted slices add a few drops of green vegetable colouring and spearmlat extract. Bring the nyrup to the boillug point and add the alices. Allow them to chill overnight in the spleed syrup. Prunes, soaked overnight and then cooked until lender in syrup made spley with whole claves 'and cinnamon silck may be used 10 stuff the holes of the pineapple rings,
EVERY hostess, every the addition of anything else. ways, and treated exactly like cook, hus a pet recipe Remove excess of fat if neces- lobster. Sometimes langouste for Christmas dishes-turkey, sary. This fat is delicious and is used. mince-pies or pudding-though can be ued in cooking.
Wild Duck aux Bigarades
in reality these recipes are all The time of cooking for an fairly similar.
average bird is two and a half
TAKE some wild ducks,
allowing one for two
A little more of this or that hours, beginning with a hot spice or other ingredient makes oven and reducing to moderate, or at the most three people us a small difference to the taste of
mince-pies or pudding, but it Anchovy Butter does not make a new dish.
A turkey, on the other hand,
only the breast is really good and tender and should be curved THIS is simply done by in thin slices.
chopping and pound- Put a piece of butter in a may taste very different accord- ing fillets of anchovy in oil and shallow saucepan and roast the ing to what stuffing is used, for working in well the same quan- ducks in it; baste often, allow- its flesh is good but not parti- tity (or a little more if the ing about twenty minutes in a cularly interesting.
anchovies are very salt) of fairy quick oven. butter.
So Rubtle stufling is worth thinking about-either the well- known and rather plain English Fillet of Beef a la Russe one with chestnuts, or the American one with oysters, or the classicn! French one with sausages and truffles.
Remove the ducks and keep them hot. Put very little flour in the saucepan and make a
When it turns
ALLOW one pound of little "roux," add a glass of port fillet of beef for six wine and one of veal stock: stir people: it should be perfectly well and finish cooking the But what (in the French trimmed and cut in thin pieces ducks in that for ten minutes,
Meanwhile, put in a small fashion) "perfumes" the flesh about two inches long, rather most is the custom of inserting like matches. Put in a pan a saucepan a little castor sugar slices of truffles just under the good piece of butter, have it at and melt it. skin of the bird. This should the foaming stage and cook yellows put in a liqueur-glassful be done a few day before the your little pieces of beef, saute- of curacao. Add the sauce turkey is to be cooked; also, ing them well; needless to say, from the ducks, the skin of one whatever stuffing is used, it being so small, they are ready orange (pith carefully re- must be not only well seasoned in no time. Season with salt moved), cut thin and small, like texture and not and pepper. Remove them and matches, and Hittle lemon but light in stiff and heavy.
keep them hot,
juice. We must remember that a Meanwhile you have melted Bring to the boil and cook a good bird dully stuffed is worse in a little butter a small onion minute or two. than an indifferent one auc finely chopped (without brown- Skin the birds and pour this culently treated. That is where ing it).
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sauce all over: serve with it the technique and the art of the Add a breakfast cupful of quarters of Seville orange, cook comes in.
cream, a tablespoonful of toma- carefully peeled with a very But there are other things we to puree, one of meat stock, a sharp knife, mude hot in is small can have on these festive ocen- little lemon juice, a pinch of saucepan. sions, besides the customary paprika, salt and pepper. ones. The following are some Bring to the boil and let it with this dish is potatoes in of my suggestions.
thicken, and reduce for a few some form, soufflees, sautees, minutes.
Anna or Macaire. Pour the sauce through a fine
Stuffed Coose Landaiso
TAKE a young goose, strainer over the pieces of beef prepare it for roast in a deep serving dish, bind with ing and stuff it in the following a small plece of butter and serve manner. About a quarter of a with saute potatoes, pound of breadcrumbs, a quar- Fillets of Soto Waleska ter of a pound of sausage meat,
the liver, chopped, and a hand-
ful of olives stoned and cut in
The only possible vegetable
Orange Tart
PEEL finely five ordin-
ary oranges, using the top skin only, and remove the pips. Pass them through mincing machine together with
MAKE à court bouillon four other oranges, from which in the ordinary way you remove only the pips, and half, a
spoonful of anchovy (with water, vinegar or white two lemons; add also the juice butter and a little chopped wine, slices of onions, trimmings of three other oranges. parsley.
of mushrooms and a bouquet of Mix well, and leave it to All this should be well season- thyme, bayleaf and parsley). macerate for twenty-four hours ed with salt, pepper, a little
Bring it to the boll and let it in two quarts and a half of nutmeg, mixed together and reduce by two-thirds. Poach in water. bound with one egg. Before stufling
the
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Roast, busting often, and half butter, a slice of truffle over "short" type. Bake, and fill an hour before the end remove each; cover with a light Mornay with the orange mixture when the slices of fat, so that the sauce and glaze quickly.
almost ready; serve hot or cold, | ww goose becomes nicely coloured. Some people prefer to nae with cream.
Serve with potatoes baked in Dublin prawns for this dish in- Put the rest of the oranges in the goose fat. The gravy must stead of lobster; in this case the pots, where they will keep like remain as it is, not be spoilt by tail is used, cut in two length- any jam.
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