628. Salad of Game

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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Ingredients (20)
Instructions (16)
  1. Boil eight eggs hard, shell them, throw them into cold water.
  2. Cut a thin slice off the bottom of each egg to facilitate proper placing.
  3. Cut each egg into four, lengthwise.
  4. Make a very thin flat border of butter about one inch from the edge of the serving dish.
  5. Fix the pieces of egg upright, close to each other, with the yolk outside, or alternately the white and yolk.
  6. Lay a layer of fresh salad in the centre of the dish.
  7. Roast a young grouse rather underdone and cut it into eight or ten pieces.
  8. Prepare the sauce: put a spoonful of finely chopped eschalots in a basin, one spoonful of pounded sugar, the yolk of one egg, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, tarragon, or chervil, and a quarter of an ounce of salt.
  9. Mix in by degrees with a wooden spoon, four spoonfuls of oil and two of Chili vinegar.
  10. Put the sauce on ice or in a cold place.
  11. When ready to serve, whip a gill of cream rather thick and lightly mix it with the sauce.
  12. Lay the inferior parts of the grouse on the salad.
  13. Sauce over the grouse so as to cover each piece.
  14. Lay over the salad the remainder of the grouse.
  15. Sauce over the remaining grouse.
  16. Serve.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
628. Salad of Game.—Boil eight eggs hard, shell them, throw them into cold water, cut a thin slice off the bottom to facilitate the proper placing of them in the dish, cut each one into four, lengthwise, make a very thin flat border of butter about one inch from the edge of the dish you are going to serve them on; fix the pieces of egg upright, close to each other, the yolk outside, or alternately the white and yolk; you lay in the centre a layer of fresh salad that may be in season, and having previously roasted a young grouse rather underdone, which you cut into eight or ten pieces, then prepare sauce as follows: put a spoonful of eschalots, finely chopped, in a basin, one ditto of pounded sugar, the yolk of one egg, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, tarragon, or chervil, and a quarter of an ounce of salt, mix in by degrees with a wooden spoon, four spoonfuls of oil and two of Chili vinegar; when all mixed, put it on ice, or in a cold place; when ready to serve up, whip a gill of cream rather thick, which lightly mix with it, then lay the inferior parts of the grouse on the salad, sauce over so as to cover each piece, then lay over the salad and the remainder of the grouse; sauce over, and serve. The eggs may be ornamented with a little dot of radishes on the point, or beet-root. Anchovy and gherkin, cut into small diamonds, may be placed between, or cut gherkins in slices, and lay a border of them round, or in any way your fancy may dictate.
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