Half an apricot or peach placed
against a like amount of rice croquette
mixture, egged and breaded in the form
of a ball, and fried in a kettle of lard.
When done, light-colored, rolled in sugar
and served with sauce in the dish, made
of the apricot syrup. Make rice croquette
preparation as at No. i88, or light potato
croquette with a little sugar added✪ Apricots a la Colbert.
Some of the canned apricots are firm
enough to use for this purpose. Drain
them well from the juice.
876--Preserved Tonrato Torts or
Pks.
When there are fresh tomatoes around,
perhaps already peeled and nototherwise
needed il is easy to put them in a pan
with a cup of sugar✪ Preserved Tomato Tarts or Pies and piece of bruised
giiv^cr and let slowly stew down to pre-
serves. Make small open pies of them.
the crust made short and the pies or tarts
baked to dryness in a slack oven.
877~TioubIe in Planning Dinners
The last dinner was not well planned ;
there were good things in plenty but they
ought not to have met in the same bill of
fare; there were too many fries; came
near being all fried; the fish in batter
with potatoes and onions fried, chicken
cutlets breaded and fried, croustades the
same, croutons too, and then apricots a
la Colbert. It \yas a mistake to have it
so, and such mistakes are being made
wherever bills of fare are written continu-
ally. When we see a bill of fare in print
in a newspaper, it generally is a model
one or tries to be so ; but models there
are few or none in actual practice. The
cook does not intend to get several dishes
of the same nature or appearance in the
same dinner and generally does not know
it till it is too late to make a change ;
perhaps his time for reflection was short
or he was thinking about the butcher's
bill, or had found one thing he intended to
use was spoiled, and an unsuitable sub-
stitute was put in hastily. While one bill
may be all fries, perhaps another time it
will be all cream — cream soup, fish with
cream sauce, macaroni a la Bechamel,
onions in cream, fried cream fritters,
cream cakes and ice cream — for if there
is a pastry cook he is^ sure to be_ lucky
enough lo come in with his contribution
of creams^ at the same time. Another
day the dinner will be all dough, with
nudel soup, fish in batter, meat pie ris-
soles or kromeskies, fritters of some kind
or pancakes and a batter pudding, or
fruit cobbler. Still again there may be a
surfeit^ of oysters; oysters raw, oyster
soup, nsh with oyster sauce, oyster stuff-
ing in the turkey and oyster patties. So
it goes about planning a dinner. One of
Thackeray's novels has a French chefiox
a character, who goes off and plays the
piano while composing his bill of fare and
seems ludicrous lo the reader but there is
nothing extravagant about that. Most
cooks make up the bulk of the bill of fare
for to-morrow whilst carving or dishing
up their entrees to-day^ when their
thoughts are upon the subject ; but some
must go off and smoke or ^ sit alone, and
theie is no reason why a piano or a banjo
might not come in useful at such a time
SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL GAZETTE'S
ij8
Page 263 · 2 recipe records on this page
Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Half an apricot or peach placed against a like amount of rice croquette mixture, egged and breaded in the form of a ball, and fried in a kettle of lard. When done, light-colored, rolled in sugar and served with sauce in the dish, made of the apricot syrup. Make rice croquette preparation as at No. i88, or light potato croquette with a little sugar added. Some of the canned apricots are firm enough to use for this purpose. Drain them well from the juice.
876--Preserved Tonrato Torts or Pks.
When there are fresh tomatoes around, perhaps already peeled and not otherwise needed il is easy to put them in a pan with a cup of sugar and piece of bruised ginger and let slowly stew down to preserves. Make small open pies of them.
the crust made short and the pies or tarts baked to dryness in a slack oven.
877—Trouble in Planning Dinners
The last dinner was not well planned ; there were good things in plenty but they ought not to have met in the same bill of fare; there were too many fries; came near being all fried; the fish in batter with potatoes and onions fried, chicken cutlets breaded and fried, croustades the same, croutons too, and then apricots a la Colbert. It was a mistake to have it so, and such mistakes are being made wherever bills of fare are written continually. When we see a bill of fare in print in a newspaper, it generally is a model one or tries to be so ; but models there are few or none in actual practice. The cook does not intend to get several dishes of the same nature or appearance in the same dinner and generally does not know it till it is too late to make a change ; perhaps his time for reflection was short or he was thinking about the butcher's bill, or had found one thing he intended to use was spoiled, and an unsuitable substitute was put in hastily. While one bill may be all fries, perhaps another time it will be all cream — cream soup, fish with cream sauce, macaroni a la Bechamel, onions in cream, fried cream fritters, cream cakes and ice cream — for if there is a pastry cook he is sure to be lucky enough lo come in with his contribution of creams at the same time. Another day the dinner will be all dough, with nudel soup, fish in batter, meat pie rissoles or kromeskies, fritters of some kind or pancakes and a batter pudding, or fruit cobbler. Still again there may be a surfeit of oysters; oysters raw, oyster soup, nsh with oyster sauce, oyster stuffing in the turkey and oyster patties. So it goes about planning a dinner. One of Thackeray's novels has a French chef, a a character, who goes off and plays the piano while composing his bill of fare and seems ludicrous to the reader but there is nothing extravagant about that. Most cooks make up the bulk of the bill of fare for to-morrow whilst carving or dishing up their entrees to-day when their thoughts are upon the subject ; but some must go off and smoke or sit alone, and there is no reason why a piano or a banjo might not come in useful at such a time
ij8
Records on this page
Apricots a la ColbertPreserved Tomato Tarts or Pies