Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book

mushroom. For filet de boeuf, take 5 or 6 pounds fillet. In the spring garnish this dish with mushrooms, or asparagus and French potatoes; macaroni timbale; sweetbreads, larded and roasted, served with pease; supreme of chicken; salad and crushed chunks; cheese souffle; ices, fruits, coffee. A SPRING BREAKFAST. Oranges with scalloped peel; broiled fish cutlets and potato croquettes; lamb chops and pease (French chops); vol-au-vents of sweetbreads; broiled squabs; waffles and coffee; cheese, straws, ices. [Illustration] MARGARET BROWN'S FRENCH COOKERY BOOK. No. 1. OX TAIL SOUP. Soak 3 tails in warm water. Put into a gallon stewpan 8 cloves, 2 onions, 1 teaspoonful each of allspice and black pepper, and the tails cover with cold water. Skim often and carefully. Let simmer gently until the meat is tender and leaves the bones easily. This will take 2 hours. When done take out the meat and cut it off the bones. Skim the broth and strain it through a sieve. To thicken it put in flour and butter, or 2 tablespoonfuls of the fat you have taken off the broth into a clean stewpan, with as much flour as will make a paste. Stir well over the fire; then pour in the broth slowly while stirring. Let it simmer for one-half hour; skim, and strain through a sieve. Put in the meat with a tablespoonful of mushroom catsup, a glass of wine; season with salt. No. 2. MOCK TURTLE. Get a calf's head with skin on, take out the brains, wash the head several times in cold water, let it soak one hour in spring water, then lay in a stewpan, and cover with cold water, and half a gallon over. Take off the scum that rises as it warms. Let it boil for one hour, take it up and, when almost cold, cut the head into pieces one and a half inches, and the tongue into mouthfuls, or make a side dish of tongue and brains. When the head is taken out put in the stock meat, about 3 pounds of knuckle of veal, and as much beef, add all