The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book

Eggs, Tivoli. Cut a piece of homemade bread into a cube and fry in butter. Open one side with a sharp knife and scoop out the center. Place in the cavity a poached egg, cover with cream sauce, sprinkle a little grated cheese on top, and bake until brown.

Miroton of beef, en bordure. Use left over boiled or braised beef, and cut in thin slices. Put into sauce pan one sliced onion with a piece of butter, and simmer until nice and brown. Then add one gill of vinegar, and a spoonful of French mustard and reduce until almost dry. Now add the sliced beef, cover with brown gravy, season with salt, pepper and a little chopped parsley, and boil for a few minutes. Dish into a deep platter, or individual shirred egg dishes, make a border of potato croquet dough, sprinkle grated cheese on top and bake till brown.

Consommé Doria. Consommé tapioca, with chopped truffles and sherry wine.

Fillet of sole, St. Malo. Fillet of sole au vin blanc with the addition of lobster sauce with scallops, and lobster and oysters cut in small squares.

Tournedos, Boulanger. Small fillets of beef sauté, with sauce Madère. Garnished with fried calf's brains and artichoke bottoms stuffed with spinach.

Soufflé potatoes. Peel the potatoes to oval shape. Do not wash but wipe with a napkin. Cut lengthwise in strips about an eighth of an inch in thickness. Place in swimming fat or lard that is merely warm and put on fire to get hot. When the potatoes are nearly done they will swim on top of the fat and swell up like little cushions. When all are on top take out and throw into very hot fat to color them. Remove, salt, and serve on napkin.

Corn Muffins. One-half pound of corn meal, one-half pound of flour, two ounces of melted butter, four eggs, one pint of sour milk, one-half cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda and one teaspoonful of salt. Sift together the corn meal, flour and salt. Dissolve the soda in the sour milk, add the eggs, well beaten, the molasses, the butter and the sifted ingredients. Beat well and bake in a well-greased muffin pan.

Eggs en Cocotte, Italienne. Put in buttered cocotte dish one raw egg, cover with sauce Italienne, put a little grated cheese and a small piece of butter on top and bake in oven.

Italienne sauce. Chop six shallots very fine and simmer in sauce pan with two ounces of butter. Do not let the shallots become brown or they will lose their flavor. Add some chopped fresh or canned mushrooms (about a can full), and one glass of white wine, and boil until reduced almost dry. Then add one and one-half pints of brown gravy, and boil again for a few minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and sprinkle with chopped parsley. This sauce is used for many entrée dishes.

Endive salad. Endive is a species of chicory salad, originally imported from France. Cut in two lengthwise and lay on platter or individual plates. Serve with a sauce of salt, pepper, and one-fourth tarragon vinegar to three-fourths olive oil. Sprinkle with chopped chervil.

Chicken hash, Victor. Take the white meat of a boiled chicken or soup hen and cut in half inch squares, and half as much fresh-boiled potatoes cut the same way. Chop six shallots very fine and simmer in four ounces of sweet butter, but do not let them become colored. Add the chicken and potatoes, and cover with clear chicken broth. Season with salt, pepper and a little chives, and let simmer for five minutes. Serve in a chafing dish with a sprinkle of chopped chervil on top. Melba toast separate.

Eggs aromatic. Fry the eggs in oil or poach. Place on toast, cover with tomato sauce, and put a few leaves of fresh mint on top before serving.

English lamb chops, XX Century Club. Broil the chops, garnish with pimentos stuffed with purée of sweet potatoes. Serve with sauce Madère.

Pistache Éclairs. Same as chocolate éclairs. Cover with pistache icing.

Pistache icing. To white icing add some pistache essence, or orange flower extract, and a little green coloring.

Fillet of bass, shrimp sauce. Place the fillets in a buttered pan, season with salt, add one-half glass of white wine, and a little stock or water. When cooked dish up on platter and cover with shrimp sauce.

Shrimp sauce. To some white wine sauce (sauce vin blanc) add some shrimps.

Braised beef with calf's feet. Take a piece of round or rump of beef, season with salt and pepper, put in pot with two onions cut in four, two carrots and a piece of butter. Roast until nice and brown. Then add one spoonful of flour and brown again. Add one glass of claret, one quart of stock, three tomatoes cut in four, or canned tomatoes, and a bouquet garni. Bring to a boil, cover tight and put in oven till very well done. This is braised beef, plain. When served Cumberland style (with calf's feet) add the feet at the same time as the claret and stock, and strain the sauce when done. If the feet are not served with the beef they may be used as an entrée.

Baked Hubbard squash. Cut the squash in four, remove the seeds, salt and pepper, put a piece of butter on top of each piece of squash and bake in oven.

Clam broth. Take hard or soft clams and wash well. Put in vessel with just water enough to cover, a little salt and a small piece of raw celery. Boil for fifteen minutes, and strain through cheese cloth.

Clam broth, Chantilly. Serve whipped cream separate, or on top of each cup.

Consommé en Bellevue. Half chicken broth and half clam broth mixed. Serve in cups with whipped cream on top.

Clam chowder. Chop two onions, one leek, a piece of celery and one green onion in small pieces, also cut one-half pound of salt pork in small squares. Put all together in a vessel with two ounces of butter and simmer till well done. Then add one gallon of stock or fish broth, four potatoes cut in half inch squares, salt, pepper, a little paprika, one teaspoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of chopped thyme, a little chopped parsley, and four peeled tomatoes cut in small dices; or chopped canned tomatoes. Bring to a boil and let cook for about one hour. Put one hundred well-washed Little Neck clams in a separate vessel and put on fire with one-half glass of water and boil for ten minutes. Strain the broth and add to the chowder. Remove the clams from the shells, cut in four pieces and add to the chowder with one cup of cracker meal, and boil for four minutes. Serve with broken crackers.

Lobster chowder. Same as clam chowder with the exception of lobster cut in small dices instead of the clams.

Oysters poulette. Open three dozen oysters, put in vessel with their own juice and bring to a boil. Drain off the broth, cover oysters with a pint of poulette sauce, and serve in chafing dish.

Carrots, Vichy. Slice some tender carrots very fine, place in buttered sauce pan, season with salt and a little pepper, and simmer over a slow fire. Then add a little chicken broth or soup stock and cook until soft. Mix one teaspoonful of flour with three ounces of butter, add to the carrots and simmer for five minutes. Serve with chopped parsley.

Chocolate. For each person take one rib or bar of chocolate. Cut in very small pieces, put in pot and add one spoonful of water and let chocolate melt. Add one large cup of very hot milk for each person, and bring nearly to the boiling point.

Fish salad, ravigote. Any kind of boiled fish that may be left over. Remove the bones and skin, break the fish in small pieces and lay on lettuce leaves. Cover with Tartar sauce, garnish with sliced pickles, pickled beets and hard-boiled eggs.

Cream of endives. Prepare the same as cream of cauliflower, using endives instead.

Fillet of flounder, Chevreuse. Stuff the fillets with halibut force meat, put in buttered pan and cook in white wine. Cover with Béarnaise sauce mixed with a little purée of tomatoes.

Chicken sauté, Ambassadrice. Jointed chicken sauté in butter, sauce suprême, garnished with truffles, mushrooms and goose liver sauté.

Goose liver sauté. Salt and pepper some fresh goose livers, roll in flour, put in pan with fresh butter and simmer until done. For garnishing entrée dishes the imported goose liver au natural can be obtained in cans. Remove the fat from the top of the can, cut the liver out in slices, season with salt and pepper, put in flour, and fry very quickly in sweet butter. Serve as a garnish or as an entrée.

Goose liver sauté aux truffes. Put goose liver sauté in chafing dish and cover with sauce Périgord.

Sauce Périgord. Slice six truffles very thin, put in vessel with a glass of dry sherry wine and reduce until it is nearly dry. Then add one-half pint of brown gravy, seasoned with salt and Cayenne pepper, and cook for ten minutes.

Corn bread. One-half pound of yellow corn meal, one-half pound of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, three eggs, one ounce of melted butter, one teaspoonful of salt, one pint of milk and one-half cup of boiling water. Pour the boiling water over the corn meal and allow it to become cold. Beat the yolks of the eggs and add to the corn meal, then add the milk, flour and the baking powder, salt and melted butter. Mix and then add the whites of the eggs beaten very stiff. Pour into a shallow well-greased pan and bake in a hot oven for about twenty-five minutes.

Boston brown bread. One pound of rye flour, one pound of Graham flour, two pounds of corn meal, one pound of wheat flour, one quart of molasses, one and one-half quarts of milk, two ounces of salt and three ounces of baking powder. Put all the flour and the baking powder in one vessel, then add the molasses, milk and salt and make a soft dough. Fill brown bread moulds about three-fourths full, put in steam cooker for three and one-half hours, then remove from steam and bake in oven for twenty minutes.

Chicken okra soup. Remove the breast from a raw fowl, and with the remainder make a chicken broth. Cut the breast in small dices, put in vessel with a chopped onion and a chopped green pepper and a small piece of butter, simmer till onion is soft, then add the chicken broth, two peeled tomatoes cut in small dices, or some canned tomatoes, salt and pepper. Let boil slowly for one-half hour, then add one pound of okra cut in pieces three-quarters of an inch in length, and cook until okra is soft. Add one teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce and a cup of boiled rice and serve with chopped parsley. If desired a slice of ham may be cut in small squares and added at the same time as the chicken breast.

Scrambled eggs with asparagus tips. Put some asparagus tips in butter, season with salt and pepper, simmer till hot, and add to the eggs.

Eggs Boremis. Put an egg in a well-buttered cocotte dish, season with salt and pepper, put plenty of grated cheese and a piece of butter on top of all, and bake in oven.

Cocoa. Put two tablespoonsful of cocoa in a pot with one-half cup of water and boil for a minute. Add two cups of milk, bring to a boil, and strain. Serve powdered sugar separate. May also be made with water only, omitting the milk.

Fillet of bass, Dieppoise. Cook the fillets "au vin blanc." Dish up on platter with lobster sauce and oysters, mushrooms, truffles, shrimps and mussels cut in small squares.

Chicken sauté, Marengo. Joint of chicken, season with salt and pepper and put in pan in very hot olive oil. When nice and brown on both sides add four chopped shallots and a little garlic and allow them to get hot, but not brown. Then add one-half glass of white wine and reduce. Add one cup of brown gravy, one cup of chopped tomatoes and one can of French mushrooms. Cook for fifteen minutes. Dish up and garnish with eggs and croûtons fried in oil, chopped parsley, and a few slices of truffle on top.

Pie paste. One and one-half pounds of flour, one-half pound of lard, one-half pound of butter and a pinch of salt. Mix all together and add enough water, (about one cup), to make a rather stiff dough. Keep in cool place or ice box.

Apple pie. For two pies line the plates with pie paste rolled very thin. Slice six good sized apples, add one-quarter of a pound of sugar and a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, mix and fill the plates. Wet the edges of the dough and cover with paste also rolled thin. Wash over with egg, make a few cuts in the center so the steam may escape while baking, and put in a moderate oven. When done dust with powdered sugar, and serve hot or cold as desired. If the apples are coarse it will be well to boil them a little in water with a piece of cinnamon and a very little sugar.

Grapefruit en suprême. Serve in a long-stemmed double grapefruit glass, put shaved ice in large glass around the smaller one. In small glass put sliced grapefruit mixed with powdered sugar. Tie a ribbon, with neat bow, around the glass.

Eggs Benedict. Split an English muffin, toast on the inside, place on each half a small slice of broiled ham, on the ham a poached egg, cover with Hollandaise sauce, and place a piece of truffle on top.

Layer cake. Eight eggs, one-half pound of sugar, one-half pound of flour, one-quarter pound of melted butter, and some flavoring extract. Beat the eggs with the sugar, on slow fire until warm, remove and continue beating until cold. Mix the flour in lightly and then add the melted butter, little by little, and the flavoring. Do not mix too much. Pour into a well-buttered mould and bake in a moderate oven for about three-quarters of an hour. Allow to cool, cut in three or four slices, and fill with cream, or jelly, or marmalade, as desired. Glacé the top with icing and decorate. The American style layer cake is mixed in the same manner, but baked in shallow moulds, requiring only about ten minutes in the oven. The filling is then placed between the cakes, instead of slicing.

Chocolate layer cake. Bake some layers as for moka cake, and put three or four, one on top of another, with chocolate butter cream filling between. The filling is made in the same manner as moka filling, but use one ounce of melted chocolate or cocoa instead of the coffee flavor. Glacé the top of the cake with chocolate frosting and decorate with some of the chocolate cream filling, using pastry bag with fancy tube.

Chicken, Edward VII. Boil the chicken in stock and stuff with rice as for Chicken Diva. Add small squares of truffles and goose liver natural. Serve with curry sauce.

Eggs Coquelicot. Line a timbale mould with a whole red pepper, (canned pimento) and break an egg into it, season with salt and pepper, and put timbale in a pan in boiling water, and place in oven until egg is cooked. Put some chicken hash in cream on a platter and turn egg and pepper on top to look like a little red cap. Serve with cream sauce around the hash.

Tripe and oysters in cream. Simmer six chopped shallots in butter, but do not allow them to color. Add two pounds of tripe cut in strips, one cup of stock, one bouquet garni, and boil for one hour. Remove the bouquet garni, drain off the broth. Add two cups of cream sauce and three dozen parboiled oysters. Simmer for a minute, and season with salt and a little Cayenne pepper.

Potage Hollandaise. (Soup). Bind a velouté of chicken with cream and yolks of eggs. Serve with brunoise garnishing.

Velouté. Used for the foundation of many soups. Put in vessel five ounces of butter and four ounces of flour and simmer for a few minutes. Add two quarts of chicken broth, stock or bouillon, cook for half an hour and bind with one cup of cream and the yolks of two eggs.

Consommé brunoise. Cut in very small dice, (nearly fine chopped), one carrot, one turnip, one leek, a stalk of celery and a little white cabbage, and parboil in salt water. Then drain off the water, put in well-buttered casserole, add a pinch of sugar, cover with buttered manilla paper and with the casserole cover on top of that, and put in the oven to braise. If too dry a half cup of stock may be added. Cook until vegetables are soft. Use for potage garnishing, Consommé brunoise, and other dishes. For soups use one heaping spoonful of brunoise to each plate.

Fillet of sole, Diplomate. Slice fine six fresh mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and simmer in butter. When done add one spoonful of meat extract. Split four fillets of sole and fill with the above dressing and cook "au vin blanc." Then place on a platter, cover with cream sauce well seasoned, put grated cheese on top and bake in oven.

Tournedos de Goncourt. Broiled fillet of beef served with Béarnaise sauce mixed with a little purée of tomatoes, and garnished with tomatoes glacées.

Tomatoes glacées. Put six whole peeled tomatoes on a buttered pan, season with salt and pepper, put a small piece of butter on top of each, and bake in moderate oven for ten minutes.

Omelet with ham. Cut a slice of cooked ham in small squares, put in omelet pan with a small piece of butter. When hot add three beaten eggs and follow directions for plain omelet, but use a little less salt.

Canapé Martha. Cut a round piece of toast and put some lobster croquette farcé on top in the shape of a pyramid. Put a thin slice of Swiss cheese on top and bake in oven. Garnish with lemon and parsley.

Cherry tartelette. Line tartelette moulds and follow directions as for pear tartelettes, but fill with canned cherries.

Braised salmon, Parisienne. Put a slice of salmon in buttered pan, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with chopped shallots and parsley, add one one-half glass of white wine, cover and simmer until cooked. Remove fish to platter, and in the pan pour some white wine sauce, (sauce au vin blanc). Let boil for five minutes and pour over fish. Don't strain.

Boiled leg of mutton, caper sauce. Put the leg of mutton in pot and cover with boiling water. Add one carrot, a leek, onion, a little celery and a bouquet garni. Season with salt, and boil for about forty-five minutes.

Caper sauce. Melt three ounces of butter in sauce pan, add three ounces of flour and allow to become hot. Add three pints of stock, bouillon, or the stock from the leg of mutton. Boil for ten minutes, season to taste, bind with the yolk of one egg and a piece of butter, strain, and add one-half cup of capers.

Mashed turnips. Boil or steam a half dozen white or Russian (yellow) turnips. Strain through a fine sieve or colander, add salt and pepper and three ounces of butter. A potato boiled with the turnips will reduce the strong turnip odor.

Codfish balls. Soak one pound of salt codfish in cold water over night. Then boil in fresh water for ten minutes. Boil two potatoes in salt water and strain through colander or sieve. Shred the codfish very fine and mix with the potato and the yolks of three eggs working well together. Allow to become cool, form into balls, roll in flour and fry in melted butter until nice and golden yellow. Serve on napkins with quartered lemons and parsley in branches.

Bouillabaisse Marseillaise. (Fish stew). Simmer in shallow sauté pan six chopped shallots, one-half onion sliced very fine and one stalk of white leek also finely sliced, in two spoonsful of olive oil, for about one minute. Then add a clove of chopped garlic, one glass of white wine, one pint of fish stock or hot water, salt, pepper, a little Cayenne, a bouquet garni and the tail of a live lobster cut in six slices, and one dozen of well washed Little Neck clams shell and all, boil for ten minutes. Add some solid meat of white fish such as rock cod, bass, tomcods, etc., and a pinch of whole saffron tied in a cloth. Boil again for twenty-five minutes. Do not skim. Remove the saffron and serve in deep dish with the broth. Sprinkle some chopped parsley over the top. Serve separate, slices of bread fried in oil and then rubbed with garlic.

Omelette au confiture. (Jelly omelet). Same as strawberry omelet. Put currant jelly or any kind of marmalade in center of omelet before turning over on platter.

Oysters à la Hyde. Parboil one-half cup of white celery chopped fine, for ten minutes, and allow to cool. Put in sauce pan two dozen large raw oysters with their own juice, add two tablespoonsful of cracker meal, two ounces of butter, one cup of cream and the parboiled celery. Season with salt, pepper, a little Cayenne, and boil for two minutes. If the sauce is not sufficiently thick add a little more cracker meal. Serve in chafing dish.

Breakfast sausages. Small pork sausages fried in pan with a small piece of butter. Serve on platter with their own fat.

Consommé Ditalini. Boil some Ditalini (a species of Italian paste), in salt water, drain off and serve in consommé. Grated cheese separate.

Eggs Créole. Put in buttered shirred egg dish one spoonful of Créole sauce, break two eggs in center, and bake in oven.

Créole sauce. Put in sauce pan three ounces of butter, one sliced onion, and three sliced green peppers. Simmer for ten minutes, or until soft, then add one quart of canned tomatoes with their juice, one can of sliced French mushrooms, one-half can of sliced pimentos, a very little finely chopped garlic, and salt and pepper. Cook slowly for one hour. Fresh tomatoes may be substituted for canned, if desired; and if the sauce is too thick some brown gravy or bouillon may be added.

Fillet of sole, Joinville. Cook the fillets "au vin blanc." Serve crayfish sauce or écrevisse, or shrimp sauce with sliced French mushrooms, truffles and lobster.

Potage Mongol. One-third purée of peas, one-third consommé Julienne, one-third purée of tomatoes. Well mixed.

Chicken sauté, Bordelaise. Jointed chicken sauté in butter with a shallot. Serve brown gravy with mushrooms and cèpes sauté, and garnish with fried onions.

Cèpes sauté. Cèpes are a species of mushrooms and may be obtained in cans. Slice and fry in butter and olive oil in equal parts, season with salt and pepper, and when nearly golden yellow add a very finely chopped shallot and some chopped parsley, and simmer for a minute longer. Often used for garnishing entrées, etc.

Fried onions. Cut large onions in thin slices and separate into rings. Put in milk, then in flour, and fry in hot swimming lard. When brown remove, salt, and serve on napkin, or use for garnishing.

Chickens' livers sauté, au Madère. Cut the livers in three, salt and pepper and fry in sauté pan in butter. Drain off and add a cup of sauce Madère. Do not let them boil in the sauce.

Purée of Lima beans. Take a can of Lima beans, or a quart of fresh beans, put in vessel, cover with chicken broth or bouillon and boil till done. Then strain through fine sieve, put back in vessel, add two ounces of sweet butter, and season to taste. Serve with small squares of bread fried in butter.

Louisiana gumbo filé. Two chickens, one quart of large oysters, one quart of cooked shrimps, six bell peppers, four large onions, one quart of tomatoes, one-half pound of butter, two bunches of celery, one small bunch of parsley, one-quarter teaspoonful of tobasco sauce, and black pepper and salt to suit.

First.—Cut the chicken the same way as for fricassée, and wipe dry.

Second.—Cut onions and brown in butter, and strain.

Third.—Fry chicken brown in strained butter, then set to one side.

Fourth.—Add two tablespoonsful of flour to strained butter and brown gradually. When a rich brown add two quarts of boiling water, then add the tomatoes. Now bring to boiling point and strain through a fine strainer.

Fifth.—Place strained liquor in a large stew pan and add one teaspoonful of salt and a half teaspoonful of black pepper, then add the chicken. Should the liquor not sufficiently cover the chicken add more hot water to about two inches above. Then add the bell peppers and celery without cutting up. Boil over slow fire until chicken can be picked off the bones with fork. Then remove chicken and strip meat from bones and cut in small pieces, remove the celery and bell peppers, and replace chicken. Add the shrimps, oysters and tobasco sauce. Boil for ten minutes. Then gradually add sufficient "filé powder" to bring to a rich creamy consistency. Add to each plate two large tablespoonsful of boiled rice. Serve immediately.

Boiled rice. Wash one-half pound of rice and soak in cold water for an hour. Cook over hot fire in four quarts of boiling water for fifteen minutes, or until the grains can be mashed between the fingers. Strain through a colander.

Livermore salad. Broil three country sausages, allow to cool and slice thin. Mix with one peeled tomato cut in small squares, one-half cup of string beans, chives, chervil, salt and pepper, and one-third of white wine vinegar to two-thirds of olive oil.

Fillet of halibut, Mornay. Place the halibut fillets in buttered pan, season with salt and pepper, cover with fish stock or water, and boil. When nearly done remove from pan and put on buttered platter, cover with Mornay sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese and place small pieces of butter on top. Bake in oven till nice and brown. See sauce below.

Sauce Mornay. For four persons use one pint of thick cream, season with salt and Cayenne pepper, bind with the yolks of two eggs and one tablespoonful of grated cheese.

Mint sauce. Use one-quarter pound of brown sugar to one quart of vinegar. Bring to the boiling point, cool off and add some fresh mint leaves chopped fine.

Rissolées potatoes. Cut potatoes in the form of a small egg or a ball. Boil for seven minutes, then put in pan with butter and brown. Sprinkle with salt.

Vol au vent, Toulouse. Boiled breast of chicken cut in small squares; chicken dumplings, dessertspoon size; one can of French mushrooms, whole; one sliced truffle, and two sweetbreads sliced and boiled in chicken broth. Put all in casserole, add one-half wine glass of dry sherry wine, allow to become hot, and add sauce Allemande to cover. It will now be like a stew. Season to taste and fill the heated "vol au vents," or patties.

Black bass, Cambacérès. Simmer six finely chopped shallots in butter. While hot add three sliced fresh mushrooms, one peeled tomato cut in squares, and one-half glass of white wine. Reduce almost dry. Then add one pint of white wine sauce. Cook the fish "au vin blanc" style and pour the sauce over same.

Omelette Lorraine. Serve the omelette with small sausages, broiled bacon and Madeira sauce.

Salade Américaine. Parboil one-half cup of okra cut in pieces one inch long. Peel a tomato and a boiled potato and cut in strips. Put in bowl with the okra, which has been allowed to cool, and garnish the top with very finely chopped Virginia ham over one half, and with chopped green peppers over the other half. Serve with French dressing.

Pancakes. For two persons take three-fourths of a cup of flour, the same of milk, one egg and a pinch of salt. Mix together into a thin batter. Bake on a pancake pan, well buttered.

English pancakes. Mix and cook the cakes as above. Stack one on another in a chafing dish, sprinkling each with a little lime juice and powdered sugar.

Pancakes Lieb. Same as above, but instead of the lime juice, spread each cake with sweet butter and powdered sugar. Keep hot with chafing dish.

French pancakes. Same ingredients as above, but cover each cake with currant jelly and roll into a roll. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and burn with a redhot iron in stripes.

Potage Flamande. Potato soup garnished with brunoise.

Boiled codfish, sauce Horose. Boil the codfish, place on napkin, garnish with small boiled potatoes, quartered lemons and parsley. See sauce below.

Sauce Horose. Two-thirds Hollandaise sauce and one-third tomato sauce mixed.

Tenderloin of beef, Bristol. Roast tenderloin of beef, sauce Madère, garnished with rice croquettes in pear form, purée of green peas and Laurette potatoes.

Rice croquettes. Put two ounces of butter and a finely chopped onion in vessel and simmer until yellow. Then add one cup of washed rice, one-half cup of bouillon and a pinch of salt, and cook in oven for ten minutes. Then add one cup of sauce Allemande and again put in oven for twenty minutes. When rice is well done bind with the yolks of two eggs and one spoonful of grated Parmesan cheese. Allow to cool and roll in the shape of a pear or ball or other desired shape. Bread and fry in swimming lard.

Consommé Rivoli. Consommé garnished with carrots cut in half moon shape and boiled in consommé, small chicken dumplings and royal custard also cut in half moon shape.

Kingfish, meunière. Wash and dry the fish and season with salt and pepper. Roll in flour and sauté in pan with butter. When done put on platter and cover with sauce meunière. Garnish with quartered lemons and parsley. See sauce below.

Sauce meunière. This is a butter sauce and is principally used for fish. Place the fish or meat on a platter and sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, chopped parsley and the juice of a lemon. Heat in frying pan four ounces of butter to a hazelnut color and pour over the dish.

Loin of mutton, charcutière. Salt and pepper the loin well on the inside, and roll up. Put in roasting pan and roast in the usual manner. To make charcutière use the mutton pan gravy, or take Madeira sauce, and add two sliced pickles and one dozen sliced green olives.

Corn fritters. One-half cup of flour, one egg, one-half cup of milk, one teaspoonful of baking powder and salt and pepper. Mix well and then add one and one-half cups of grated fresh corn, or a can of drained corn. Fry in pan with hot butter. Serve on napkin.

Cream of chicken, à la Reine. Cream of chicken served with small chicken dumplings.

Fillet of sole, Maximilian. Cook fish as for "au vin blanc." Cover with Hollandaise sauce mixed with one tablespoonful of hot meat extract.

Roast chicken, Rosabelle. Garnish the chicken with hearts of artichokes and whole tomatoes, Macédoine. Sauce Madère. This garnish is fine with most any kind of meat.

Frozen raisin punch. Strain the juice of three lemons, add one pint of water, one-half pound of granulated sugar and freeze in the usual manner. Have ready one-half pound of boiled in sugar, and chopped, seeded or seedless raisins. Let the raisins cool, and add with the whites of two eggs, well beaten, to the contents of the freezer, and finish. Serve in glasses with kirschwasser or maraschino poured over the top.

Omelette du Czar. Grate a horseradish root and place in pan with piece of butter. When hot add one-half cup of cream sauce and mix well. Make the omelet, and before turning on the platter put the horseradish in the center. Serve with cream sauce around the edge.

Pickled ham. Take a fresh leg of pork, rub with salt and pepper and put in earthern jar. Cover with red or white wine, or water mixed with wine, as you prefer; one onion, one carrot, a piece of celery, parsley in branches, a few pepper berries and a bouquet garni. After two or three days take out the leg of pork and roast in the ordinary manner. Half of the pork pickle may be used to make a flour gravy if desired.

Red cabbage. Slice a head of red cabbage very fine. Put in vessel with salt, pepper, one glassful of red wine and two cups of fat bouillon. Cover and cook in oven for two hours.

Red cabbage, German style. One sliced red cabbage, one-half glass of vinegar, three sliced apples, two cups of bouillon, and a small piece of salt pork or bacon. Put in oven and cook as above.

Purée of white beans. Soak two pounds of white beans over night. Put in pot and cover with stock or bouillon. Cook until soft, strain through fine sieve, put back in pot and add enough bouillon to make a soup. Season to taste, add two ounces of sweet butter, and serve with small squares of bread fried in butter, separate.

Striped bass, Portugaise. Take a whole bass and cut in slices two inches thick. Put in a buttered pan one-half of an onion chopped, three chopped shallots, a little chopped garlic and parsley, two tomatoes cut in small squares and a bouquet garni. Place the fish on top, season with salt and pepper, add one glass of white wine, one cup of stock or fish broth, cover and cook slowly. When done remove the bouquet, place the fish on platter and reduce the broth one-half. Add four ounces of butter, mix well and pour over the fish. Sprinkle with a little fresh-chopped parsley mixed with a little finely chopped garlic.

Macaroni in cream. Boil the macaroni in salt water. When done drain, add cream sauce, a little sweet butter, salt and Cayenne pepper. Serve grated cheese separate.

Picked-up codfish in cream. Soak one pound of codfish in cold water over night. Cut two fresh-boiled potatoes in small squares. Put the codfish in cold water and boil for ten minutes, drain, and shred the fish in small pieces. Put in pot with the potatoes, add two cups of cream sauce, salt and a little Cayenne pepper, and simmer for ten minutes.

Poached eggs, à l'Indienne. Lay hot poached eggs on plain boiled rice and cover with curry sauce.

Curry sauce. Simmer one onion, one leek, a small piece of celery, one bay leaf, a branch of thyme and a little garlic in three ounces of butter. Then add two spoonsful of curry powder and two of flour. When hot add one quart of stock, one sliced apple, one sliced banana sauté in butter, and one-half cup of Indian chutney. Boil for twenty minutes, strain through a fine sieve and salt to taste. This sauce is used for chicken, fish, oysters, lamb, veal, etc., and should be made respectively with chicken broth, fish broth, juice of oysters, and so forth.

Salade Nivernaise. Cut in dices cooked carrots, beets and turnips. Place in salad bowl in separate piles with a bouquet of watercress in center. Season with French dressing.

Boiled whitefish, Golfin. Boil in the same manner as codfish. Serve on napkin, garnished with parsley, lemon and small boiled potatoes. Serve sauce separate. See below.

Sauce Golfin. White wine sauce mixed with small strips of boiled smoked tongue and gherkins.

Salade Rejane. Boiled celery root and artichoke buttons, and two tomatoes cut in squares. Place in salad bowl in separate piles. Slice two pimentos and place in center. Season with French dressing.

Pistache ice cream. Prepare a vanilla ice cream mixture. Crush one-quarter pound of pistachio nuts to a very fine paste, mix with a little orange flower water and two ounces of sugar. Infuse in the vanilla ice cream mixture, and strain when hot. Allow to become cold, color a very light green, and freeze.

Consommé Orleans. Boiled barley well-washed so it will not discolor the soup, small chicken dumplings, peas, one peeled tomato cut in very small squares, and some chopped chervil. Put in consommé just before dishing up.

Poached eggs, Diane. Line a tartelette mould with paste and fill with raw white beans to support the walls, and bake in oven. Then throw out the beans and fill with tomatoes sauté in butter, place a poached egg on top, cover with Hollandaise sauce, and put in hot oven for a second.

Tripe à la Créole. Cut two pounds of boiled tripe in strips, put in casserole one pint of Créole sauce and boil for thirty minutes. Serve with boiled rice.

Potage Alexandra. Half velouté of chicken and half cream of potatoes.

Veal kidney roast. Secure a loin of veal with the kidneys left in, roll, season well and roast in the same manner as shoulder of veal.

Fish patties, Bagration. Small pieces of sole, twelve oysters, and twelve Little Neck clams boiled in white wine. Drain and add six heads of French mushrooms sliced, one sliced truffle, and enough white wine sauce to make the consistency of a stew. Have the patty shells very hot, and fill.

Turnips glacés. Cut the turnips in pieces four times the size of an almond, and put to boil in salt water. When nearly done drain, add a small piece of butter and put in oven until yellow. Then add one spoonful of meat extract and glacé them.

Gendarme potatoes. Cut the potatoes in the same shape as for French fried. Put in pan with piece of butter and roast in oven. When half done add one sliced onion and finish roasting. Sprinkle with salt and chopped parsley before serving.

Celery root, field and beet salad. Boil two peeled celery roots. When cold slice and put in salad bowl with field salad on top, and decorate with sliced boiled beets. Season with French dressing.