Chapter XVI · Poultry (Volaille) · No. 1712
1712—Mayonnaise de Volaille
Garnish the bottom of a salad-bowl with ciseled lettuce, arranging it in the shape of a dome. Season with a little salt and a few drops of vinegar. Upon this salad arrange the cold collops of boiled or roast fowl, carefully cleared of all skin.
Cover with mayonnaise sauce; smooth the latter and decorate with capers; small stoned olives; anchovy fillets; quartered hard-boiled eggs; small quartered or whole lettuce hearts.
Arrange these decorating constituents according to fancy, as no hard and fast rule can be given.
When about to serve, mix as for a salad.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 1712, p. 541. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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