564. Plovers sauté with English Truffles

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
Source
The Modern Housewife
Yield
4.0 plover
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (12)
Instructions (11)
  1. Lay the plovers breasts downwards in a stewpan containing the butter.
  2. Add the truffles, cloves, bay-leaf, salt, and pepper.
  3. Cook over a sharp fire for ten minutes, stirring occasionally.
  4. Mix in the flour.
  5. Moisten with the broth and white wine.
  6. Simmer at the corner of the fire for twenty minutes longer, keeping it well skimmed.
  7. Dress the birds upon a dish.
  8. Reduce the sauce to a proper consistency.
  9. Season with sugar and lemon juice.
  10. Pour the sauce over the birds.
  11. Serve very hot.
Original Text
564. Plovers sauté with English Truffles.—Procure four plovers, which lay breasts downwards in a stewpan, containing a quarter of a pound of butter, to which add eight raw truffles, well washed, peeled, and cut into very thin slices, two cloves, a bay-leaf, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a saltspoonful of pepper, pass the whole ten minutes over a sharp fire, stirring them round occasionally; then well mix in half a tablespoonful of flour, which moisten with half a pint of broth and a glass of white wine; let the whole simmer at the corner of the fire twenty minutes longer, keeping it well skimmed, dress the birds upon a dish, reduce the sauce to a proper consistency, season with a little sugar and the juice of a lemon, and pour it over the birds; serve very hot.
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