Chapter XVI · Poultry (Volaille) · No. 1641
Built upon: No. 273Blanchings
1641—Poulet de Grains à la Limousine
Stuff the chicken with one-half lb. of good sausage-meat, combined with two oz. of chopped mushrooms fried in butter. Put the chicken in a cocotte with one oz. of butter and six rectangles of No. 273, Blanchings breast of bacon, and cook gently in the oven.
When about to serve, add two or three tablespoonfuls of veal gravy.
Send, separately, six fine chestnuts cooked in consommé.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 1641, p. 520. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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