Chapter XIV · Fish · No. 868
868—Filets de Soles Caprice
Dip the fillets in melted, seasoned butter, and then roll them in fresh and fine bread-crumbs. Pat the bread-crumbs with the flat of the knife, and with the back of the same instrument criss-cross the surface of the fillets. Sprinkle with melted butter, and set to grill gently, taking care that the coating of bread-crumbs acquires a nice, light-brown colour.
Lay on each grilled fillet the half of a peeled banana, cooked in butter, and send to the table, separately, a Roberts sauce Escoffier, finished with butter.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 868, p. 293. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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