Chapter XVII · Roasts and Salads · No. 2023
2023—Salade Trédern
Take twenty-four crayfishes’ tails, cooked as for bisque, and cut lengthwise; twenty-four oysters (cleared of their beards), poached in lemon juice; and three tablespoonfuls of asparagus-heads. The three constituents should have barely cooled. Complete with fine shavings of raw truffles.
Season with condimented mayonnaise sauce, combined with a purée made from the crayfishes’ carcasses, pounded with two tablespoonfuls of fresh cream.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 2023, p. 622. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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