Chapter XIV · Fish · No. 869
869—Filets de Soles Catalane
Poach, in the oven, as many emptied and seasoned half-tomatoes as there are fillets of sole. Cook some very finely-minced onion in oil, without letting it acquire any colour, and allow one tablespoonful of the onion to each half-tomato.
Fold the fillets of sole, and poach them in fish fumet just a few minutes before dishing them. Garnish the half-tomatoes with onion; arrange them in a circle on a dish, and place a fillet of sole upon each. Quickly reduce the cooking-liquor of the fillets, and finish it with butter in the proportion of one oz. per one-eighth pint of reduced fumet.
Coat the fillets and set to glaze quickly.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 869, p. 293. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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