Chapter XVI · Poultry (Volaille) · No. 1887

1887—Cailles Figaro

Insert a piece of truffle into each quail, and wrap them each in a piece of gut together with a bit of pale veal glaze, the size of a pigeon’s egg. String the pieces of gut at two points one in. from either extremity of the quails, that the envelope may not burst while cooking. Poach the quails in good veal stock, that they may not be washed as they would be if the gut happened to burst in a poaching-liquor consisting of salted water.

Serve the quails as they leave their cooking-liquor.

Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 1887, p. 596. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).