Chapter XIV · Fish · No. 935
935—Turbotin Régence
Poach the chicken-turbot in a sufficient quantity of previously-prepared court-bouillon with Chablis wine.
For a fish weighing three lbs. (enough for ten people), prepare the following garnish:—Twenty small spoon-moulded quenelles of whiting forcemeat with crayfish butter; ten poached oysters (cleared of their beards); ten small mushroom-heads (very white); ten truffles in the shape of olives, and ten poached slices of milt.
Drain the chicken-turbot just before dishing it, and slip it on to a dish. Surround it with the garnish detailed above, arranged in alternate heaps, and serve a Normande sauce, finished with two tablespoonfuls of truffle essence per pint, separately.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 935, p. 314. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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