Chapter XVI · Poultry (Volaille) · No. 1896
1896—Rizotto de Cailles
Into each quail insert a piece of fresh, pounded pork fat, the size of a hazel nut, combined with an equal quantity of white truffle; and cook them in a saucepan with butter.
Add their fat to a previously-prepared Rizotto. Dish this rizotto in a timbale, and hollow it out so as to make a nest for the quails.
Sprinkle the latter with the saucepan-swillings, consisting of game fumet; and send the dish to the table at once.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 1896, p. 597. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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