Meaning of financière | Babel Free

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Involving a heavy sauce flavored with truffles, mushrooms and Madeira wine, and garnished with one or more of olives, kidneys, quenelles, sweetbreads, livers, and cockscombs.

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Examples

“[…] add a good financière ragoût (No. 89) of cocks’ combs, fat livers, truffles, and some mushrooms; […]”

“Fill six vol-au-vents made with feuilletage paste (No. 1076) with a quart of financière garnishing (No. 246), and serve them on a dish with a folded napkin.”

“The classic version of financière sauce is rather esoteric, a tomato-and-Madeira-flavored brown sauce with elaborate garnishes.”

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