A guide to modern cookery

reserved tails, these being shelled and trimmed. This soup may also be prepared as a velouté or a cream. 665—COULIS DE GIBIER, otherwise AU CHASSEUR Prepare six oz. of the meat of a wild rabbit, six oz. of that of a partridge, and six oz. of that of a pheasant. These meats should be roasted and their roast-cases swilled with a liqueur-glass of burnt brandy. The resulting gravy should be added to the soup. Now finely pound these meats together with one-half pint of cooked and drained lentils. When the whole has become a smooth purée add the cooking-liquor of the lentils and the swillings referred to above and rub through tammy. Finish the cullis with the necessary quantity of consommé, heat it, and pass it through a strainer. Add butter at the last moment and season moderately. Garnish with three tablespoonfuls of small, very fresh mushrooms; these to be finely minced and tossed in butter. 666—COULIS DE GRIVES AU PAIN NOIR, otherwise A L’ARDENNAISE Fry four fine thrushes in butter and complete their cooking in one pint of feathered game consommé containing five oz. of rye-bread dice fried in butter. These dice constitute in this case the thickening element of the soup. Remove and put aside the thrushes’ fillets, finely pound the carcasses together with two juniper-berries, add the leason of bread dice, and rub through tammy. Add to the resulting purée one-quarter pint of feathered-game consommé, set to boil, and pass through a strainer. Finish the cullis with two and one-half oz. of butter and four tablespoonfuls of cream. Garnish with the reserved fillets cut into thin slices or into a _julienne_. 667—COULIS DE GROUSE OU DE GELINOTTE A L’ANCIENNE Proceed as in No. 666 in so far as the preparatory details and the quantities are concerned, but take note of the following changes in other directions:— (1) Substitute for the thrushes two grouse or two hazel-hens, taking care to discard the legs and the carcasses. (2) Use ordinary bread dice instead of those of rye-bread. 668—COULIS DE LAPEREAU AU CURRIE Cut the legs of a young wild