This section is from the book "The Post-Graduate Cookery Book", by Adolphe Meyer. Also available from Amazon: The Post-Graduate Cookery Book.
Put the chicken on the fire, adding at the same time 18 olive-shaped potatoes and 12 very small onions. Ten minutes before the chicken is cooked add 12 small heads of mushrooms. Remove chicken and vegetables, and finish the sauce as for chicken with white wine.
Prepare a chicken sauted with white wine, garnish with Potatoes Anna, cooked in small moulds, and fried eggplant, cut in Julienne about 2 inches long and 1/4. inch thick.
Proceed as for Chicken Sauted with White Wine. When the chicken is done, remove it to another pan and keep it warm. Moisten the pan with I gill of white wine, allow to reduce almost dry, add 1 tablespoonful each of chopped fresh mushrooms and of Mirepoix Bordelaise, add a gill of rich brown veal stock, reduce to half; then add I tablespoonful of chicken glace, a pinch of chopped parsley, 2 ounces of sweet butter and the juice of half a lemon; add the chicken, heat well without boiling, and serve in an earthen casserole. Before placing it on the table pour over a pony of good brandy, to which set fire; set on the table while burning.
When the chicken is cooked, add 2 chopped shallots, fry for 1 minute, moisten with white wine, and finish the sauce as stated previously. Before serving, add a teaspoonful each of chopped parsley and chervil, and 1/2 teaspoonful of chopped tarragon.
Cook the chicken as stated for Chicken with White Wine. Before serving, add some blanched tarragon leaves to the sauce.
Follow the directions given for Chicken, Portuguese Fashion, adding 18 cooked okras.
Chicken "sauted with fine herbs." Serve it on a support of Potatoes Anna.
Saute the chicken in half olive oil and half clarified butter. When the chicken is cooked, remove it, and fry 3 chopped shallots in the butter in which the chicken was cooked, moisten with 1/2 gill of white wine, let reduce, then add I gill of brown veal stock, I gill of tomato sauce and I teaspoonful of chicken glaze; allow the sauce to reduce to good consistency, season to taste, add the chicken to roll in it for a few minutes, dress it on a dish, pour over the sauce, and garnish with stuffed tomatoes.
Poulet Saute a la Zingara - Chicken Sauted, Zingara or Gypsy Style. Cook the chicken as indicated in the initial receipt. Instead of brown sauce use tomato sauce ; season highly with paprika and add some shredded ham.
Some cooks also add shredded truffles.
Dish up the chicken and garnish with very small rice croquettes.
 
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