These truffles are found, she believes, in the woods where the soil is chalky.
Here also are half-a-dozen truffles if I will accept them: most that are found go up to the great house; but of late years they have not been sought for so carefully, because coming in quantities from abroad.
And she is here,--I saw her simply gorging herself with chicken salad and truffles an hour ago!
In justice I must add that we were none of us used to truffles or olives, nor to the oil which replaces butter in Provencal cookery.
Chop ten truffles very fine, and the bottoms of four cold boiled artichokes, from which you have removed the furze attached to them, also the leaves, and chop them rather fine.
Arrange your chopped truffles and artichokes in layers in a salad bowl, mixing with each layer some of the hard-boiled eggs with their dressing.
Boil four sweetbreads, and let them become cold; then chop them very fine, add about ten mushrooms and some truffles also chopped fine.
You may add to your mixture, before forming into croquettes, some chopped trufflesor chopped parsley.
Take them out of your saucepan and pound them together, adding two truffles chopped fine, a pinch of salt, pepper, and nutmeg, fill your quails with the mixture and sew up the opening.
Skim off all grease from their liquid, strain it, put it in a saucepan on the fire for a moment, add to it a dozen truffles cut in slices, pour it over your quails, and serve.
Gruyere cheese, and the same of Parmesan, an ounce of smoked tongue cut in thin strips, and the same of ham also cut in strips, and the same of truffles and mushrooms chopped fine.
Then put thetruffles into a stewpan with a pint of beef stock, stew them gently, and when the liquor is almost reduced add some cullis well-seasoned.
TRUSS the turkey as for boiling, put some light forcemeat with truffles pounded with it into the cavity near the breast, and secure it from falling out.
When an oak has been cut down, or even lopped, a spot near it that was rich in truffles year after year is soon scoffed at by the knowing pig.
The truffles are never found except very near these trees, or, in default of them, hazels.
Then he said: "Just pass me the turkey again, messieurs; I would like a few of the truffles with this chicken.
Then, I'll give you a regular Belshazzar, withtruffles and champagne!
Monsieur Tobie Pigeonnier is stuffing truffles into his pocket.
You may vary the menu, however, by adding truffles stewed in champagne; then your success will be even more complete.
When I wrote you to come, I didn't know that Monsieur Dodichet, a commission merchant in sugar, would treat Boulotte and me to this impromptu feast of champagne and truffles mixed, this morning.
Although these plantations consist both of the evergreen and common oak, trufflescannot be gathered at the base of the latter species, it so happening that it arrives later at a state of production.
It is true that truffles are found under trees of special kinds, for Mr. Broome remarks that some trees appear more favourable to the production of truffles than others.
It may be interesting here to state that the value of truffles is so great in Italy that precautions are taken against truffle poachers, much in the same way as against game poachers in England.
Truffles were thus obtained for a period of from twenty-five to thirty years, after which the plantations ceased to be productive, owing, it was said, to the ground being too much shaded by the branches of the young trees.
It is also asserted that truffles are produced about the vine, or at any rate that the association of the vine is favourable to the production of truffles, because truffle-plots near vines are very productive.
In this case no attempt was made to produce truffles by placing ripe specimens in the earth, but they sprang up themselves from spores probably contained in the soil.
Rousseau, of Carpentras, on the production of oak trufflesin France.
The next morning I experienced a keen sense of despair when the truffles of the examining magistrate came back to mind.
Works like the present one are formed in the mind of the author with as much mystery as that with which truffles grow on the scented plains of Perigord.
In this doubting mood you approach with firm step, for a pate is a living creature, and seem to neigh as you scent afar off the truffles whose perfumes escape through the gilded enclosure.
Fortunio I could have played the part of Sharp-Ears, who heard the truffles growing.
Have the truffles no leaves or stalks,' inquired Fritz, `by which they might be found without the help of the dog?
The monstrous head travelled in the same way, and we collected a large number of truffles before quitting the forest.
The flesh of the wild boar and the truffles were handed over to my wife, who received them with delight, promising us therefrom many a savoury dish.
You can pick out the truffles if you are afraid of them.
Truffled partridge, then," he said to James, resignedly, and when it came he deliberately ate the truffles first.
It consists of chopped truffles worked up into best fresh butter rolled out, and then laid on the hot lobster.
Some cutlets done in Bologna style, a thin slice of ham on top and hot Parmesan and grated white truffles and Fegato alla Veneziana complete the repast, except for a slice of Strachino cheese.
The fowls and figs of Tuscany, the white truffles of Piedmont, the artichokes of Rome, the walnuts and grapes of Sorrento, might well stir a gourmet to poetic flights.
Drain them, and have ready a rich white sauce, the same that is used for boiled chickens, only without truffles or mushrooms; pour this sauce over the celery, and serve hot.
When ready to serve, pour the sauce and truffles over whatever meat they are destined for.
Strain the truffles or morels from the butter they were first stewed in; throw them into the sauce; warm the whole again, and serve hot.
Let them simmer over the fire two hours; put in some pickled mushrooms, a little lemon juice, a spoonful of ketchup, a few truffles and morels.
Prepare a very rich brown gravy with truffles cut in it; slit the skins off some chesnuts with a knife, and fry them in butter till thoroughly done, but not burned, and serve them whole in the sauce.
The romance of truffles endows the very word itself with a halo, an aristocratic halo full of mystery and suggestion.
An interesting chapter on Truffles will be found in British Edible Fungi, M.
At the top of everything a huge turkey exhibited its white breast, marbled blackly by the truffles showing through its skin.
You wouldn't find any truffles but you would find a great peace, such as no amount of present- giving could ever bestow.
Truffles must be peeled, chopped and pounded in a mortar; one and a half pound will do for one turkey.
Rasp the same amount of fat bacon and mix with the truffles and stuff the turkey with it.
Chestnuts dressed in the same way as truffles are found an excellent substitute.
In the eyes of a true lover of truffles a puff-ball is a noisome, obscene thing; it is a false truffle.
At one time, by a series of successes, Monsieur Bonticu was three up on his rival, but Clotilde, by a bit of brilliant work beneath a chestnut tree, brought to light a nest of four truffles and sent the Pantan colors to the van.
She wondered how the wild hogs knew that the truffles were there.
Perhaps you have heard stories of how hogs dig truffles in France to-day.
FISH [Illustration] Oysters a la Marechale Stew very gently in four ounces of butter some thinly sliced truffles and mushrooms.
Put a layer of the macaroni in a baking dish, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and sliced truffles mixed with a little good sauce espagnole.
Spread over this the pounded liver and heart of the bird with an anchovy, a bit of ham and two truffles minced.
Still farther, little rush baskets of hothouse strawberries contrasted with rosy mushrooms, and enormoustruffles as black as ebony, obtained from the hotbed by special culture.
Enclose each mouthful of grouse between two slices of truffle, and moisten the whole well with sauce a la Perigueux, with which black truffles are mingled.
Pheasants sauced and stuffed with truffles, fowl dressed with slices of bacon, turkey stuffed with truffles from Perigord, grouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "truffles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
