Dominoes of Sole Fillets

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Lightly flatten fine large sole fillets and poach them with mushroom cooking liquor, lemon juice and butter; cool them under a press.
  2. When quite cold, cut them into correct rectangles the size of a domino, keeping the trimmings.
  3. Coat the rectangles with a white lean Sauce Chaud-froid, decorate them as dominoes with small rounds of very black truffle, and glaze them with jelly.
  4. Pound the fillet trimmings with the same weight of Caviar and pass through a fine sieve.
  5. Add to this mixture a weight of melted, very deeply coloured jelly equal to the weight of the trimmings.
  6. Let it set in a lightly oiled tray with raised edges, at the thickness of a sole fillet.
  7. When firm, turn it out and cut it into rectangles exactly like those of sole.
  8. Fix the chaud-froided, decorated rectangles on them with a little melted jelly.
  9. At the moment of serving, arrange a dome of chopped jelly on a round dish and set the dominoes upon it, imitating a game of dominoes overturned.

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