Chapter XV · Relevés and Entrées · No. 1129
Built upon: No. 268GratinsNo. 174Anglaise (for Egg-and-bread-crumbing)
1129—Tournedos à la Sarde
Prepare a garnish of (1) hollowed, parboiled, and braised sections of cucumber, stuffed with duxelles, and No. 268, Gratins; (2) small tomatoes, similarly treated; (3) small round croquettes of rice flavoured with saffron, thickened with egg-yolks, treated No. 174, Anglaise (for Egg-and-bread-crumbing), and fried.
Fry the tournedos in butter, and dish them in the form of a crown.
Set a croquette of rice upon each tournedos, and frame the whole with the stuffed cucumber cases and the stuffed tomatoes, laid alternately.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 1129, p. 375. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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