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Medium
Published 1999
Like Potage Billy-By, Dover sole baked with breadcrumbs and Noilly Prat is another speciality of Maxim’s, named after the legendary and ferociously snobby maître d’hotel who presided there between the wars. This is a dish belonging to my early days in Soho, when I was still struggling with teaching myself to cook, and I thought anything grand and French was the business. The kitchen at Maxim’s must have loved this dish because it is so simple to prepare, very suitable for cooking at home an