Chapter XVII · Roasts and Salads · No. 2016
2016—Salade Opéra
Take equal quantities of white chicken meat, very red tongue, celery-sticks cut julienne-fashion, and a julienne of truffles. Arrange these constituents in very regular heaps, and in the middle of them set a heap of asparagus-heads. Decorate with a border consisting of roundels of cocks’ kidneys and roundels of gherkins, laid alternately.
Season with very thin mayonnaise sauce.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 2016, p. 621. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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