Chapter XIV · Fish · No. 879
879—Filets de Soles à la Hongroise
Fry in butter, without colouration, one small tablespoonful of chopped onion seasoned with a very little paprika; moisten with three tablespoonfuls of white wine and one-sixth pint of fish fumet; add two small peeled, pressed, and roughly-chopped tomatoes, and set to cook for seven or eight minutes.
Fold the fillets of sole; lay them on a buttered dish; pour the above preparation thereon, and poach them. Arrange them in a circle on a dish; reduce their cooking-liquor to a stiff consistence; add a few tablespoonfuls of cream and a few drops of lemon juice, and coat the fillets with this sauce.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 879, p. 296. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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