The Hotel St. Francis cook book

French fried potatoes Cold artichokes, mustard sauce Apple pie Coffee Chicken okra Queen olives Fillet of sole, Rose Caron Vol au vent, Toulouse Roast saddle of venison Puree of chestnuts Peas au cerfeuil Sweet potatoes, Southern style Lettuce salad Omelette souffle a la vanille Coffee Fillet of sole, Rose Caron. Skin the four fillets of one large sole and place on a buttered pan. Put on top of each, three slices of cooked lobster, season with salt and paprika, add one-half glass of white wine, cover with buttered paper, put in oven and cook for twelve minutes. Remove the fillets to a platter, taking care that the lobster does not fall off. To the gravy in the pan add one pint of white wine sauce and boil for ten minutes, then add two tablespoonsful of ecrevisse butter, and strain the sauce over the fish. Heat in sherry wine sixteen slices of truffles, and put four on top of each fillet, after the sauce has been added. Garnish with fleurons. Sweet potatoes, Southern style. Peel and slice some boiled sweet potatoes and put in buttered shirred egg dishes, or pie plates. Add a little salt, molasses and maple syrup, sprinkle with powdered sugar, put some small bits of butter on top, and bake in oven until brown. Vol au vent, or patty shells. Take some puff paste, with six turns, and roll out to about one-quarter inch in thickness. With a round pastry cutter about three inches in diameter, cut the paste. Then moisten with egg, and with the tip of a small knife trace a ring on each patty about one-half inch from the edge. Bake in a hot oven for about twenty minutes. Take out of the oven and with the knife point lift off the center cover within the traced circle, and empty of the uncooked paste inside. Garniture Toulouse. Cut the garnishing to agree with the size of the patty. For the size described above cut in pieces about one-half inch square. For larger patties cut from an inch to an inch and a half square. Use the boiled breast of chicken, sweetbreads boiled in chicken broth, and French mushrooms in equal parts, one-half of a sliced truffle to each person, three chicken dumplings, teaspoon size cut in two, rooster kidneys and rooster combs. Mix well, and stew in a sauce Allemande made of chicken broth and well seasoned. Fill the hot patty shells and serve on platter, garnished with parsley in branches. Waffles Grapefruit with sherry Honey in comb Mixed grill Coffee Cup custard Lady fingers Coffee Puree Crecy Radishes Bouillabaisse Marseillaise Roast leg of mutton, currant jelly String beans Hashed in cream potatoes Escarole salad Napoleon cake Coffee Mixed grill. Broil one lamb chop, one breakfast sausage, one slice of tomato, one whole fresh mushroom head, and one whole lamb kidney. Put all on a plate, cover with maitre d'hotel sauce, and serve hot. Garnish with watercress. Cup custard. Mix four eggs, one-quarter pound of sugar, one pint of milk, and flavor with vanilla. Strain, pour into cups, and bake in bain-marie until firm. It will require about one-half hour in a moderate oven.