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The Hotel St. Francis cook book

1919

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Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Deviled turkey's legs, with chow chow. Use the legs from a boiled or roasted turkey. Season with salt and pepper, spread some French mustard all over the surface, roll in bread crumbs, and broil ; or fry in pan with a piece of butter. When nice and brown dish up on platter, and garnish with large leaves of lettuce filled with chow chow. Mashed potatoes au gratin. Put some mashed potatoes in a buttered shirred egg dish or pie plate. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan or Swiss cheese, put small bits of butter on topMashed Potatoes au Gratin, and bake until brown. Potage gentilhomme. Potato soup with Julienne of carrots. Julienne. Julienne is the term used in cooking for vegetables, or any kind of meat, etc., cut in long strips, like matches. Vegetable Julienne should be prepared and cooked as follows: Cut the vegetables in strips, add salt and a very little sugar, put in a well-buttered casserole, cover with buttered paper and the casserole cover. Put in oven and smother until soft. Turn gently once or twice, with a fork, so as not to break the vegetables. Small tenderloin steak, Florentine. Broiled tenderloin steak, with sauce Madere, or brown sauce. Garnish with risotto, and just before serving gar- nish the risotto with truffles, ham and tongue cut in small squares. Roquefort dressing, for salads. For four persons take four ounces of Roquefort cheese, put in salad bowl and mash well with a fork. Add one- half teaspoonful of salt, two pinches of ground black pepper, two table- spoonsful of vinegar, and three tablespoonsful of olive oil. Mix well and pour over the salad. If desired, one teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce and a pinch of paprika may be added. English breakfast tea ice cream. Prepare in the same manner as vanilla ice cream. Before freezing add seme strong tea made of one ounce of English breakfast tea and one cup of boiling water. 20 THE HOTEL ST. FRANCIS COOK BOOK JANUARY 20 BREAKFAST LUNCHEON Stewed rhubarb Eggs Oudinot Boiled eggs Fricassee of veal, with noodle* Buttered toast Chocolate profiteroles Coffee Coffee DINNER Potage McDonald Lyon sausage Fried chicken, Maryland Cheese cake Coffee Eggs Oudinot. Put some stuffed eggs in a shirred egg dish, cover with cream sauce, sprinkle with the chopped yolks of hard-boiled eggs, put a small piece of butter on the top of eachEggs Oudinot, and bake in oven until brown. Fricassee of veal. Cut five pounds of shoulder and breast of veal in pieces two and one-half inches square, put on fire in cold water, bring to the boiling point, and then cool. Put back in vessel, cover with water, add one carrot, one onion, a bouquet garni, a little salt, and boil until soft. Remove the vegetables and bouquet, and use the broth to make the fricassee sauce. Put in casserole on stove, six ounces of butter, when hot add three-quarters cup of flour, heat through, then add three pints of the veal br.oth, stir well and boil for ten minutes, then bind with the yolks of three eggs and a cup of creamVeal Sauce. Season and strain the sauce over the pieces of veal. Allow to stand five minutes before serving. Noodles, spaghetti, or other paste, should be served, either separate or on the side of plate with the stew.