Recipe for Baked Cape Scallops En Coquille Ritz
Ingredients:
6 cups of scallops
(dried, not washed)
3 cups thinly sliced small mushroom
caps
5 tablespoons butter (hard, broken in
small dots)
1 heaping cup fresh bread crumbs
fresh ground white pepper
6 shallots, chopped
1/3 cup dry white wine
3 tablespoons lemon juice (fresh)
salt
rock salt
scallop shells
Put the scallops in a large bowl,
season with salt, pepper, wine, shallots and lemon juice.
Mix well, sprinkle with bread crumbs; reserve about 3 tablespoons for
later use. Toss everything together quickly, add 2/3 of the
butter dots. Mix lightly. Butter 6 scallop shells, place them on
rock salt. fill each one equally with the scallops, sprinkle the
remaining bread crumbs, topped with the rest of the butter dots.
Bake in a very hot oven for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve
immediately with thin cucumber or watercress tartines. Serves 6.
Thanks to Chef Marcel Kein (Chef
at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in
Boston, 1972)
This
Recipe was taken from a guidebook called "BOSTON Lunching Out" by
Jerome and Cynthia Rubin 1972 , long out of print.