Chapter XIV · Fish · No. 899
899—Filets de Soles Rachel
Coat the fillets with some delicate fish forcemeat; put four slices of truffle on the forcemeat of each of the fillets; fold the latter, and poach them in one-sixth pint of the cooking-liquor of mushrooms, and a piece of butter the size of a walnut, cut into small pieces.
Arrange the fillets in an oval on a dish, and coat them with white-wine sauce combined with one tablespoonful of freshly-cooked and uncooled asparagus-heads, and one tablespoonful of truffle in dice per every one-half pint of the sauce.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 899, p. 301. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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