This section is from the book "The Steward's Handbook And Guide To Party Catering", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
Patty cases shaped out of bread, fried and filled with sweetbread in sauce.
Round slices cooked with slices of truffles in cream colored sauce.
Larded, braised, served with a Toulouse garnish of cockscombs, mushrooms, etc., in white sauce.
Larded, braised, glazed, served on a border of forcemeat with rice in the center.
Like an epigramme; half of them larded, braised and glazed and half breaded and baked brown, served in pairs with tomato sauce.
Small rounds cut with a tube cutter; with "fines herbes " in buttered paper cases with breadcrumbs on top, baked.
Cut very small or chopped, stirred in a very thick sauce with seasonings; rolled up when cold, breaded and fried.
The croquette mixture patted into the shape of mutton chops; a piece of raw macaroni to represent the bone, breaded and fried or baked; served with toma -toes or other vegetables.
The croquette mixture rolled like very thin sausages, rolled up in thin pie-paste and fried.
The croquette mixture rolled like bottle corks, rolled up in very thin slices of boiled bacon, dipped in fritter batter and fried.
Sweetbreads larded thickly with truffles, spread over with pounded pistachio nuts moistened with white of egg, baked in buttered papers; served with a border of broiled lamb's kidneys and port wine sauce.
Large slices of sweetbreads fried with onion and butter, stock added, flour, butter and curry powder stirred in; served with rice.
Tomatoes raw, peeled, are cut in halves and dried down in the oven; round slices of cooked sweetbreads sandwiched between two halves of tomato, breaded and fried; served with fried parsley and supreme sauce.
Made of veal stock, cream, cubes of sweetbreads and fried croutons.
Sweetbreads in small pieces with raw ham, leeks, white wine, in chicken stock thickened with white roux.
Are in Paris served larded with a garnish of pointes cfasperges, that is, green asparagus tops, boiled, with a lump of butter added. This tasty dish is tariffed from 75 centimes to 7 francs, according to the restaurant at which it figures on the menu.
Take 4 sweetbreads, soak and blanch them, then stew in milk and water, with mace and lemon-peel; when cooked enough, strain the gravy, and thicken with a teacup of cream and a little corn-flour. Roll up eight or ten quite thin pieces of bacon, and fry them crisp, and set them on end in the middle of the dish, then lay small bunches of asparagus at intervals on the top of the bacon, cut the sweetbreads into suitable size pieces, and put them round, then pour the sauce over them so as to leave the bacon and asparagus clear.
 
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