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Croutons alla Principesca

Ingredients:

Croutons, tongue, sweetbread, truffles, fowl or game, Velute sauce, stock, eggs, butter.


Preparation:
  • Fry a 6 to 8 slices of bread in butter till it is a light brown colour, then cut it into heart shaped pieces.
  • Prepare a ragout with bits of tongue, sweetbread, fowl or game, truffles, two or three spoonsful of well-reduced Velute sauce, and two or three of reduced gravy.
  • Put a spoonful of the ragout in each crouton, and over it a layer of fowl forcemeat half an inch thick; trim the edges neatly, glaze them with the yolk of eggs beaten up, and put them in a buttered fireproof dish in the oven for twenty minutes. Then glaze them with reduced stock and serve hot.