A guide to modern cookery

au Barsac+, +Sole au Château-Yquem+, &c. 860—SOLE DIEPPOISE Poach the sole with one-sixth pint of fish _fumet_ and a few tablespoonfuls of the cooking-liquor of mussels. Drain and dish the sole, surround it with poached mussels (shelled and cleared of their beards) and shrimps’ tails, and coat the fish and the garnish with a white wine sauce combined with the reduced cooking-liquor. 861—SOLE DIPLOMATE Poach the sole in very clear fish _fumet_. Drain it, dish it, and coat it with Diplomate sauce. Set upon it a row of six fine slices of black truffle; these should have been previously glazed with pale meat-glaze. 862—SOLE BONNE FEMME Butter the bottom of the dish intended for the sole, and besprinkle it with two chopped shallots, one pinch of parsley, and one and one-half oz. of raw minced mushrooms. Lay the sole upon this garnish, moisten with one-quarter pint of white wine and as much fish _fumet_, and poach gently, taking care to baste from time to time. When the sole is poached, drain off the cooking-liquor into a vegetable-pan, and reduce it quickly to half; effect the leason with two tablespoonfuls of fish velouté, and finish the sauce with two oz. of butter. Coat the sole with this sauce and set it to glaze in a fierce oven or at a salamander. 863—SOLE PARISIENNE Poach the sole in white wine, the cooking-liquor of mushrooms, and some butter. Drain it thoroughly, dish it, and coat it with white wine sauce combined with the reduced cooking-liquor of the sole. Garnish with a row of six slices of truffle and six fine roundels of cooked mushrooms kept very white, and finish with four medium-sized trussed crayfish. 864—SOLE NANTUA Poach the sole in one-sixth pint of fish _fumet_ and a few tablespoonfuls of the cooking-liquor of mushrooms. Drain and dish the sole, surround it with twelve shelled crayfishes’ tails, and coat it with Nantua sauce. Lay a row of very black truffle slices along the middle of the fish. FILLETS OF SOLE Subject to the kind of dish required, fillets of sole are either kept in