The Hotel St. Francis cook book

Potage Cambridge (soup). Melt three ounces of butter in vessel, add two ounces of flour, and simmer for five minutes, or until golden yellow. Add one pint of veal broth or stock, one-half pint of puree of tomatoes and the trimmings of a few fresh mushrooms. Cook for twenty minutes, strain through sieve and add fine-cut strips of fresh mushrooms saute in butter. A pony of dry sherry wine may be added if desired. Strawberry ice cream. One pint of cream, one quart of milk, the yolks of eight eggs, one-half pound of sugar, one pint of strawberry pulp or strained strawberries, the juice of one lemon and a little coloring. Put the milk with half the sugar on the fire to boil. Mix the remainder of the sugar with the eggs, stir the boiling milk into it, and cook until it becomes creamy, but do not allow it to boil. Remove from the fire, add the cream, strawberry pulp and lemon juice, cool and freeze. Grapefruit with vanilla sugar Green onions Finnan haddie in cream Radishes Puff paste crescents Eggs ministerielle Oolong tea Vermicelli aux croutons Cold asparagus, mustard sauce Cup custard Coffee Clam chowder, Manhattan style Queen olives Fillet of sole, Marguery Omelet with spinach Broiled fresh mushrooms Coffee ice cream Assorted cakes Demi tasse Puff paste crescents. Two pounds of flour, one pound of butter, one pint of milk, one ounce of salt, one and one-half ounces of sugar and two ounces of yeast dissolved in warm water. Mix one-half pound of the flour with onehalf pint of water and the dissolved yeast. Stand in warm place for about twenty minutes. Put the remainder of flour on board and mix in the yeast paste; when sufficiently risen, add salt, sugar and milk, make a stiff dough and allow to stand for a few minutes. Roll out, put the butter into the dough as for ordinary puff paste, and roll in the same way, but giving it only half the number of turns. Stock for soup. Two pounds of beef bones and a marrow bone, if you can obtain one, two gallons of water, a carrot, onion, leek, piece of parsley, a bouquet garni, salt and pepper. Boil for three hours. Strain. Puff paste (feuilletage) . Take one pound of flour and one cup of water and make a smooth paste, but not too soft. Form into a square loaf and let it set for about fifteen minutes. Roll out on floured board about one-half inch thick, and place in the center one pound of butter, well-worked and flexible. Fold the edges of the paste over the butter and roll out about one-quarter inch thick, taking care that the butter does not run out of the dough. Brush off the flour and fold in three. Roll out again to the same thickness as before and repeat the folding. Put in cool place or ice box for about one-half hour, then roll and fold as before. Again rest for one-half hour, and then roll and fold again. The paste will then have six turns in all, and after a little rest it can be used.