Good food

Bearded Jeannette.

A medium brill, a bottle of white wine, 125 gr. of butter, a lemon, a glass of Madeira, salt, pepper, cloves, spring onions.

After emptying and cleaning the catfish, make a few incisions on its back so that it can be well penetrated. by marinating with white wine, spring onions, cloves, crushed parsley and lemon cut into slices.

Then place it in a sauté pan with the marinade and cook it. Arrange the fish on a hot dish, reduce the cooking, thicken it with the butter and add the Madeira.

Chicken Provencal style.

A chicken, 175 gr. mushrooms, two eggs, parsley, spring onions, three cloves, half a bay leaf, a sprig of thyme, a pinch of flour, a pinch of nutmeg, a clove of garlic, 60 gr. of butter, a spoonful of oil.

Cut the chicken like a fricassee, drain the pieces in lukewarm water, drain them.

Place the butter and oil, mushrooms, all the herbs and the chicken pieces in a saucepan;

brown the pieces with salt and pepper, sprinkle with flour, add boiling water or broth, add the mushrooms.

Leave to cook and when cooked, combine the sauce with the egg yolks diluted with a little sauce. Add a pinch of nutmeg and a fairly large quantity of very finely chopped parsley and serve very hot.

Chopped leeks.

A bunch of fine leeks, an egg of butter, a medium spoonful of flour, salt, pepper, a glass of cream, two egg yolks, fried croutons.
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Peel the leeks, cut them in two or three, removing the green which could be tough; wash and do. boil for twenty minutes in boiling salted water if they have a strong flavor, blanch them first in boiling water and refresh in fresh water

drain them, squeeze them to extract all the water, chop them like spinach. Put the butter in the pan and brown the leeks with the flour, salt, pepper, add the cream and cook;

bind with the egg yolks, remove from the heat, and serve garnished with croutons.

In fat, we moisten with broth instead of cream. We can also serve any kind of meat on it.

Corn Cakes.

Make a paste with 125 gr. of corn flour and as much wheat flour, two eggs beaten and as large as an egg of butter, a pinch of salt; work this dough for a quarter of an hour;

then spread it out with the rolling pin, cut it into small circles using a glass and cook these pancakes over moderate heat for around twenty minutes, either in the oven or under the gas stove. These cakes will keep for several days.

BABETTE.