This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Butter and cover a tin plate with two ounces of pate-a-chou (No. 1240), about the height of a quarter of an inch. Cook it in the oven for six minutes, then remove, and fill it with forcemeat (No. 226) pressed through a cornet; cut it with a paste cutter into twelve equal-sized pieces, put them in the tureen, pour one quart of boiling consomme (No. 100) over them, and serve.
 
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