Finishing the Hand

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Instead of being this hand
delicate and disagreeable in order to
separate debris from the shelled almonds.
Place bone and meat
in an equal quantity of cloth and squeeze.

From pages 32-33 of The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery by Auguste Escoffier, translated by H. L. Cracknell and R. J. Kaufmann (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1979).

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