The Hotel St. Francis cook book

Larded Tenderloin of Beef. Trim the tenderloin. Lard with fresh or salt pork cut in two inch strips, one-quarter of an inch square. Lay on in rows three-quarters of an inch apart, starting from the thick end of the tenderloin and continuing its entire length. Put in pan with a sliced onion, sliced carrot, bay leaf, clove, parsley in branches, and some butter on top of the meat. Put in oven and baste continuously for about thirty-five minutes. Remove the grease from the pan, add one cup of stock or water, reduce, salt, pepper and strain. Madeira sauce may be served with same if desired. Sliced tomatoes, French dressing. Peeled tomatoes garnished with leaves of lettuce, and French dressing over same. Vanilla custard pie. Six eggs, one quart of milk, one-half pound of sugar, and half of a vanilla bean. Mix the eggs with the sugar, add the milk, and strain. Line a large pie dish with thin pie dough. Fill with the custard and bake in moderate oven until set. Orange marmalade Grapefruit English breakfast tea Bouillon in cups Tea biscuits Boiled beef, horseradish sauce Ham and eggs Vegetable garnishing for beef Romaine salad Apple pie Coffee Petite marmite Broiled lobster Potted squab chicken, plain Waffle potatoes Peach compote Boiled artichokes, Hollandaise sauce Coffee ice cream Pound cake Demi tasse Tea biscuits. Three pounds of flour, one-half pound of butter, one quart of milk, three ounces of baking powder, three ounces of sugar, and a little salt. Sift the sugar, salt and baking powder with the flour ; add the butter and milk, and make a dough on the table about one-half inch thick. Cut with a round cutter about the size of a dollar, place in a buttered pan, moisten the top with milk, and bake in a hot oven for about fifteen minutes. Boiled beef with vegetables. The meat should be juicy, well-flavored and tender. The brisket, cross rib and rump are the best portions. The wide ribs at the end of a rib roast are also very good. Tie the beef with a string and put into boiling water ; clear from scum, add salt, and garnish with carrots, onions, turnips, celery, leeks and Savoy cabbage. The cabbage may be tied with a string to prevent disintegration. A good way is to put all the vegetables into a net as they can thus be withdrawn at once. Allow the meat to simmer gently on the side of the range, but do not let it come to a boil. When done cut in slices, not too thin, and garnish with the vegetables neatly arranged around the beef. Serve separately, either cream horseradish sauce, piquante, tomato, or bouillon horseradish sauce. A little of its own broth should be poured over the meat before serving. Horseradish sauce in cream. Cream sauce with fresh-grated horseradish and salt and pepper. Horseradish sauce with bouillon. Put two fresh-grated horseradish roots in saute pan with four ounces of butter. Cover and put in oven for five minutes. Add two grated rolls and return to oven for two minutes more. Then add bouillon enough to form the sauce. The bread will swell and give the necessary body. Add a pinch of sugar, salt and pepper.