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1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Fresh huckleberries (2 qts 24 cents.) Summer apples (10 cents.) Oatmeal and hominy grits (3 cups makes 3 qts, 7 cents.) Beefsteak (18 orders, 2% lbs net and butter 45 cents.) Mutton chops (9 orders, 15^ lbs, 18 cents.) Ham (9 orders, i lb net, 15 cents.) Eg'j;s any style (3 dozen 45 cents.) Codfish balls ( 18 with 1% lbs fish etc. 24 cents.) Fried rnush (4 orders 4 cents.) Potatoes baked, and a la Francaise (10 cents.) Muffins (No. 582 ; 18, 14 cents.) French rolls (30, 12 cents.) Corn batter cakes (i qt 9 cents.) Milk 2 gal. 24, cream 2 qts 40, butter 1 5^ lbs 25, syrup 8, cofTee 8, tea 2, choc- olate 8, bread 4, sugar 12 {131 cents.) Total $3 68 ; 40 persons ; little over 9 cents a plate. 911— Codfish Balls. S09— Chease Pondue. Is the name of a sort of cheese omelet There should be nearly as much fish used as potato, say i pound of salt codfish to 8 potatoes. Codfish balls cannot be made very good with cold mashed pota- toes; all should be fresh boiled for the purpose and made up hot. Steep a pound of codfish in water to COOKING lOR PROFIT. I2Q freshen it, boil in two waters, pick free from bones, mash it thoroughly in a pan with a potato masher. Turn m the hot potatoes and pound them together, add a seasoning of black pepper, very little butter and, \i you choose, i egg or 2 or 3 yolks. Make up in balls either round or flattened with plenly of flourCodfish Balls on the hands; drop in hot- lard and fry brown. If they do not have a good appearance when done you can change it next time by breading them in egg and cracker meal. 912— Cream Chocolate There was the Queen and Crescent restaurant enjoying qui':e a reputation for its chocolate, every cup_ of which was said to be served v^ith ^^'hipped cream on top although, in fact, no cream ever came near it — it was simply made to order and whisked up while on the fire as directed at our No. 36, but with less milk than that, and served with the appearance of whipped chocolate cream upon it. And there was, close by, the Hotel Fantastic, on Fantastic Beach, that was said never to have served a good cup of chocolate during the whole ot its unprofitable ex- istence. Such ib the difference resulting from the methods of making — the latter using twice as much chocolate, making it hours too soon and spoiling it irrevo- cably in the detestable, bain-marie can, a miniature mud well. Dinner. August 10. Soup— Consomme Knickerbocker (6 qts 30 cents.) Lake trout stuffed (3 lbs and stuffing, 30 cents.) Potatoes 'a la Colbert. Boiled ham Cshank, 2 orders 5 cents.) Roast chicken with currant jelly (4 hens, 32 orders no cents.) Beef a la mode Allemande (3 lbs net and trimmings 45 cents.) Braised rnutton with nudels (2 briskets, 4 lbs and trimmings 40 cents.) Summer squash 14, beets 4, cabbage 10, rice 3, corn 15, potatoes 15; (61 cents.) Baked prune pudding (2^ qts with sauce 28 cents.) Custard pie (2 large, deep 24 cents.) Blueberry pie (i qt, 2 pies, large, thin 20 cents.) Lemon ice cream (5 pts pure cream, sugar, flavor, freezing, makes 8 pts for 75 cents.) Cakes, assorted kinds (2 lbs 20 cents.) Nuts, raisins, cheese* crackers, pickles (average 42 cents.) Milk, buttermilk 25^ gals. 30, cream 1 qt 20, coffee 8, tea 4, butter 20. jelly 10, bread 8, sugar 8 (108 cents ) Total $6 44; 42 persons: 15^ cents a plate. 913— Consomme Knickerbockar. Consomme Knickerbocker