Game — Furred & Feathered, Preparation & Cooking Tips
Young game birds are suitable for roasting and may be identified by their soft, pliable bones and feet and moist appearance; older birds should be braised or stewed. The term …
How to Prepare Chicken & Spring Chicken for Grilling?
(1) Pass a large knife through the vent end of the bird just allowing the tip of the knife to show at the neck end. (2) Cut through to one …
How to Prepare Chicken For Shallow Frying?
(1) Singe the bird and remove any feather pins with the tip of a small knife. Wipe clean with a cloth. (2) Remove each leg by cutting around the skin …
How to Prepare Chicken for Suprêmes?
(1) Remove each leg by cutting around the skin to the ball and socket joint at the carcass bottom. (2) Fold back the leg at the ball joint cutting between …
How to Truss Poultry?
Poultry should have flexible breast bones and plump firm breasts. The skin should be white and unbroken. This method given below for trussing is suitable for chicken, duck, geese and …
Scallop Shells of Cod in White Wine Sauce
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 45 minutes. Ingredients: — 1 kg duchess potato mixture — 75 grams butter — 750 grams shallow poached or boiled and flaked cod — 8 …
How to Poach Oysters
Open the oysters and remove them from their shells. Strain the oyster juice into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Add the oysters and simmer for a few seconds, …
Mussels in White Wine Sauce
This dish of cooking and serving mussels has been chosen because of its lasting popularity. In it the mussels are cooked in white wine and fish stock together with chopped …
Lobster Américaine with Tomato Wine Sauce
Makes: 2 portions. Cooking time: 40 minutes. Ingredients: — ½ dl oil — 1 x 750 grams live lobster — 50 grams brunoise of vegetables, carrots, shallots, celery — 1 …
Lobster Newburg Recipe, invented by Ben Wenberg
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 45 minutes. Ingredients: — 5 x 750 grams live lobsters — 75 grams butter — ½ dl brandy — 1½ dl marsala, madeira or dry …
Lobster with Cheese Sauce
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 45 minutes. Ingredients: — 10 x 750 grams live lobsters — 1 liter monray sauce — 200 grams butter — 50 grams grated parmesan cheese …
Lobster Cardinal with Truffle Slices
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 45 minutes. Ingredients: — 100 grams butter — 5 x 750 grams lobsters — 150 grams butter mushrooms cooked and sliced — ½ dl brandy …
How to Properly Boil Lobster
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 20 minutes. Ingredients: — 10 x 750 grams live lobster — court bouillon Method: (1) Plunge the live lobster into plenty of boiling court-bouillon and …
Shellfish Cooking Tips & Tricks
When purchasing shellfish it is very important to ensure that they are very fresh and, in many cases, that they are alive and lively. Those with double shells must be …
Grilled Fish in Breadcrumbs – Fillet Of Sole Saint-Germain
Fish dishes which are coated in breadcrumbs and grilled in butter are generally referred to as Saint-Germain dishes. Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 8 minutes. Ingredients: — 10 x 85 …
Grilled Dover Sole Recipe
Grilling is the cooking of fish under direct heat with the aid of fat or oil to prevent sticking or burning. When cooked grilled fish should be served with a …
Nut Brown Butter Sauce for Fish Serving
Ingredients: — 100 grams butter — ¼ juice of lemon Method 1: (1) Heat the pan. (2) Add knobs of butter shaking the pan continuously until the butter froths and …
Fried Fillets of Sole Meuniere
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 8 minutes. Ingredients: — 10 x 85 grams fillets of sole — 250 grams seasoned flour — 3 dl oil — 3 lemons — 150 …
How to Shallow Fry Fish
Shallow frying or meunière is the cooking of fish in shallow fat in a frying pan on top of the stove. The fish is served with a garnish of lemon …
Devilled Whitebait Fish Recipe
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 5 minutes. Ingredients: — 1 kg whitebait — ½ liter milk — 250 grams seasoned flour — 3 lemons — salt and cayenne pepper — …
Fried Fillet of Sole French Style
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 4 minutes. Ingredients: — 10 x 85 grams fillet of Sole — ½ liter milk — 250 grams seasoned flour — 3 lemons — sprigs …
Fried Fillet Of Plaice in Breadcrumbs with Tartare Sauce
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 6 minutes. Ingredients: — 10 x 85 grams fillets of plaice — flour, eggwash and breadcrumb coating — 3 lemons — sprig of parsley — …
Fish Deep Fried in Breadcrumbs, Coating Technique
This is fish with a coating of seasoned flour, eggwash and breadcrumbs. There are a number of types of breadcrumbs in common use: (a) fresh white breadcrumbs; (b) dried brown …
Poached Brill Steak With Melted Butter
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 8-10 minutes. Ingredients: — 5 liters water — 2 lemons — 5 grams salt — 10 x 180 grams brill steaks — 150 grams beurre …
Skate with Black Butter
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 8 minutes. Ingredients: — 10 x 100 grams skate wing pieces — 5 liters court bouillon — 100 grams capers — 150 grams butter — …
Poached Supreme of COD in Cheese Sauce
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 10 minutes. Oven temperature: 175°C. Ingredients: — 10 x 100 grams cod supremes — 50 grams butter — seasoning of salt and pepper — 50 …
Risotto, Northern Italian Rice Dish Cooked in a Broth
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 30 minutes. Ingredients: — 75 grams butter — 75 grams chopped onion — 500 grams rice — 1½ liters white stock (preferably chicken) — 1 …
Savory Braised Rice Recipe
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 15-20 minutes. Oven temperature: 200°C Ingredients: — 75 grams butter — 75 grams chopped onion — 500 grams rice — 1 liter white stock (preferably …
Picture Perfect Plain Boiled Rice
There are three basic methods of preparing rice: boiling, braising and stewing. (a) Boiled rice is used as an accompaniment for curry and as a garnish for soup. (b) Braised …
Maize Flour Dumplings
Makes: 10 portions. Cooking time: 25–30 minutes. Ingredients: — 1 liter salted boiling water — 200 grams maize flour — 2 egg yolks — 75 grams grated Parmesan cheese — …