Chapter XVII · Roasts and Salads · No. 1948
1948—Roast Upper-fillet
Break the projecting bones of the vertebræ, and sever the yellow ligament at various points. For this joint the heat should be fiercer than in the previous case, the limit of time being less.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 1948, p. 606. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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