Crème de Riz de Veau à la Française.—Blanch
one large or two small calves' sweetbreads, then
rinse them well, and place them in a stew-pan with
a sliced carrot and onion and a bunch of herbs, with
enough well-flavoured light stock to just cover them;
bring this to the boil, then draw it to the side of the
stove and let it all simmer gently and steadily for
about an hour, when you lift it out and press it till
cold between two plates. (Set the stock in which
these were cooked aside carefully.) When the sweet-
bread is quite cold remove all skin, sinew, etc., and
rub the sweetbread through a coarse wire sieve; add
half a pound of this purée by degrees to 6oz. of
panade previously pounded till smooth, with two
large tablespoonfuls of creamy and rather thick
Béchamel sauce, a small wine glassful of sherry, an
ounce of fresh butter, two tablespoonfuls of thick
cream, a little salt and white pepper, and lastly
three raw eggs; when the sweetbread has been
thoroughly added to all this, put it into a forcing bag
with a large plain pipe, and force it into little bombe
moulds (any pretty small moulds will do) previously
buttered and sprinkled with chopped truffle and