Side dish recipes

Cornmeal Dodgers

Twelve oval baked cornmeal pieces filled with butter.

Cornmeal Muffins

Six lightly sweetened cornmeal muffins with a golden baked top.

• 40 min

Cornmeal Mush

Soft lemon-scented cornmeal cooked with milk, water and sugar, served with cold dairy and sugar.

Cornmeal Pones

A dense yellow cornmeal bake with milk and butter, browned in a pan and cut into six pieces.

Cracker and Onion Boiled Dumplings

Soft cracker, egg and fried-onion dumplings boiled in salted water and served with melted butter and parsley.

• 55 min

Cream of Wheat

Cream of Wheat cooked in milk and water, with cream and powdered sugar served alongside.

Creamed Asparagus with Egg-Yolk Sauce

Tender asparagus spears beneath a thick cream sauce enriched with an egg yolk and white pepper.

• 40 min

Creamy Breakfast Hominy

Soft hominy grits simmered in water and milk, with cold milk served separately.

Creamy Savoy Cabbage with Parmesan

Finely chopped Savoy cabbage finished in butter and milk, then bound with a firm balsamella and Parmesan.

• 65 min

Crisp Matchstick Sole Strips

Very fine sole strips firmed in lemon juice, dipped in milk and flour, then fried separately until crisp as an accompaniment to fried sole.

• 160 min

Crumpets

Twelve round milk-and-yeast cakes baked until golden.

Cucumber Purée

Smooth cucumber purée enriched with cream and butter, served with heart-shaped croutons.

Cucumbers Bombay

Cucumber quarters braised with onion, green pepper, curry and dry apple cider.

Cucumbers Béchamel

Cooked drained cucumber pieces coated in a small milk-and-cream white sauce.

Cucumbers Espagnole

Tender cucumber pieces simmered with tomato sauce, green pepper, onion and parsley.

Cumberland Apple and Banana Purée

Five apples and five bananas sieved with currant jelly, sugar and cayenne.

Curry Cakes

Small savory-sweet curry-scented pan cakes with maple syrup on side.

Cèpes Provençale

Canned porcini browned with onion, garlic and herbs, finished with lemon juice.

Delmonico Potatoes

Golden Parmesan-topped finely hashed potato gratin.

Double-Fried Sweet Potato Soufflés

Thin sweet-potato slices fried twice until golden and crisp.

Duchess Potatoes

Six heart-shaped egg-bound potato cakes with crisscrossed golden tops.

Egg-Yolk-Bound Rice for Boiled Chicken

Rice partly cooked in water, finished in chicken broth and bound with a little butter, Parmesan and two egg yolks, with a spinach and moulded version.

• 35 min

Eggplant Sacramento

Six baked eggplant half-shells filled with their chopped flesh, cured ham, cooked beef tongue, tomatoes and cream, with breadcrumbs and butter on top.

Eggs Omar Pasha

Six shirred dishes each with two poached eggs under Parmesan milk sauce.