DTDIWNE part Deux
"Oysters a la Bazeine
or
Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense:
Prepare a roux of chopped chives, butter, and rice-flour, and set it aside.
Slice truffles paper-thin, and cut into the shapes of dolphins, crabs, and other sea-monsters. Set them aside.
Poach a brook trout, preferably alive, in a court-bouillon made with a good dry champagne instead of the ordinary wine and water. Set them aside.
Make a marinade, using fine instead of wine-vinegar, and in it marinate small cubes of Parma ham for several hours, or until a faint iridescence appears. Drain, and do not set aside.
Prepare croutes by browning thick slices of fine white bread in Strasbourg goose-fat, and do not set aside.
Instead, place them quickly on heated plates. Spread each tranche with Bechamel and then the roux. Set a trout carefully upon it, and coat with Soubise. Over this sprinkle the cubes of Parma ham, and then a thin layer of veloute. Decorate lavishly with the truffle-silhouettes, and serve at once under bells with a modest but well-bred Sainte-Croix du Chateau Pinardino '08."
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, Consider the Oyster.
I beleive that's "08" as in "1908".
or
Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense:
Prepare a roux of chopped chives, butter, and rice-flour, and set it aside.
Slice truffles paper-thin, and cut into the shapes of dolphins, crabs, and other sea-monsters. Set them aside.
Poach a brook trout, preferably alive, in a court-bouillon made with a good dry champagne instead of the ordinary wine and water. Set them aside.
Make a marinade, using fine instead of wine-vinegar, and in it marinate small cubes of Parma ham for several hours, or until a faint iridescence appears. Drain, and do not set aside.
Prepare croutes by browning thick slices of fine white bread in Strasbourg goose-fat, and do not set aside.
Instead, place them quickly on heated plates. Spread each tranche with Bechamel and then the roux. Set a trout carefully upon it, and coat with Soubise. Over this sprinkle the cubes of Parma ham, and then a thin layer of veloute. Decorate lavishly with the truffle-silhouettes, and serve at once under bells with a modest but well-bred Sainte-Croix du Chateau Pinardino '08."
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, Consider the Oyster.
I beleive that's "08" as in "1908".