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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.
Separate the whites and yolks of eight eggsPartridge Souffles in Cases, whip them both light,' add th» yolks to the mixture first, then the frothed whites. Put the souffle in twenty fancy paper cases, bake about 15 minutes, and send them in as soon as they are done, lor they faU as they become cool with waiting. Serve in the cases on large dishes with plates of buttered toast to follow. Cost: i^ lbs selected partridge meat 60, sauce 10, eggs, seasonings 15, paper cases 25; $r 10 for 20, Paper cases can be bought of confectioners or made at home. They hold about as much as a patty or gem pan and are of various shapes. 949— White Coffee a la Soyer. Is made with coffee that, instead of being browned is only baked to a slight yellow color and is not ground, or at most the berries are onl)^ bruised, and is made with one-half milk and one-half water. It requires twice as much coffee as the ordinary. For 8 cups take : 2 cups light baked coffee berries. 4 cups boiling water. 5 cups boiling milkWhite Coffee a la Soyer. The berries may have been parched before, but when wanted, heat them oyer again and throw them hot into the boiling water. Close the Hd and let stand to draw for half an hour; then add the boil- ing milk through a stramer. ^ Drop a ta- blespoon of whipped cream in each cup as it is carried in. 950— Apricot toe Cream 5 cups cream. 2 cups canned (or cooked) apricots. I ^ cups sugar.Apricot Ice Cream Pass the apricots without the syrup through a sieve. Freeze the cream and sugar first to guard against curdling by the fruit ; then add the apricot pulp and finish the freezing. 951— Four Thousand Meals. So that couple got safely married and ^38 SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL GAZETTE'S went awa)^ ; still the number of guests in the house is steadily increasing. It seems almost a pity there was not a story teller here makmg a book out of what he saw, for It will be remembered, those young ladies from the Trulirural House never came over here to boaid until they saw the Colonel sailing around with his best girl ; and it stands to reason that there must have been unmeasured mischief m the air, and plotting and counter plotting; and all that is lost. But every man to his trade, as the saying is. The way our part of the play comes in is just this : we have got thmgs down to such a fine point by keeping tally this way that, after a lit- tle figuring in the spare hours of the re- maining two weeks, we shall all know ex- actly what it is going to cost that young couple to live, in whichever style, wheth- er in a soup-entree-and-dessert order of existence in a mansion on Euclid or Michigan Avenue or St. Charles or Sac- ramento street, or on bread and cheese and kisses a la mode on laborers' wages in Smoky Alley. Then we shall know how much Mrs. Tingee makes off her board- ers and shall see plainly how some people managed to get rich so quickly at the New Orleans Exposition, and, moreover, we shall know how to go about preparing a banquet for 4,000 people.