CUTLETS, FILLETS, &c. Continued.
HAVING given general directions for the preparation of cutlets and fillets of various kinds, a few specific recipes may be offered, as suggestions, for it would be impossible in a book of this size to give anything like an exhaustive list of the innumerable ways of preparing such things. For instance, cutlets plainly broiled (i.e., neatly trimmed, etc., plain, or larded if liked, with fine lardons previously rolled in quatre épices, brushed over with, or dipped into either dissolved butter or good salad oil, then grilled over a clear fire for four or five minutes, the other side being turned and cooked in the same way if unlarded; or if larded, then set for four minutes or so in a sharp oven, to crisp the lardons and finish the cooking); can be served in a circle with any nice vegetables such as peas, asparagus points, cucumber, soufflé or ribbon potatoes, fried tomatoes, mushrooms, etc., or with any good purée, such as mushroom, tomato, céleri à l'Espagnole (the celery well cleansed, blanched, and stewed in good well flavoured brown stock, then rubbed through a sieve and heated in a rich espagnole sauce), artichoke, salsify, cardoons, lettuce, spinach, potato, etc., to taste,