The Hotel St. Francis cook book

Lunch rolls. Two pounds of flour, one ounce of yeast, one ounce of salt, one pint of water. Dissolve the yeast and salt in the water, add the flour and mix, making a rather hard dough. Put into a basin, cover with a cloth, and allow to stand for four hours. Then divide the dough in four parts, roll each one separately into the form of a stick about fourteen inches long and one inch thick. Put on a cloth on a special roll plank made for the purpose. Take care that the rolls are sufficiently far apart so they will not touch when they raise. Let them set for about one-half hour. Then cut each roll of dough in three parts with a sharp knife, make two incisions in the top of each, put into a pan and bake for about twenty minutes. Gardens a la moelle. Cardon is a vegetable, a thistle-like plant related to the artichoke. It can be obtained in cans. Empty into a vessel and warm in its own juice. Parboil some sliced beef marrow, put into a brown gravy with the juice of one lemon and some chopped parsley. Remove cardon from its broth, put on a platter and pour the brown sauce and marrow over all. Preserved figs with cream Cold fillet of sole, Raven Force with cream Spring lamb Irish stew Dry toast Cream puffs Coffee Coffee Consomme Sevigne Salted Brazil nuts Sweetbreads braise, Pompadour Chateau potatoes Terrine de foie gras a la gelee Hearts of romaine, Roquefort dressing Meringue a la creme, Chantilly Coffee Cold fillet of sole, Raven. Cook four fillets of sole in white wine and place on a platter. Simmer two spoonsful of finely chopped shallots in butter, add a few chopped fresh mushrooms, one chopped tomato and the wine used for cooking the fish. Reduce until it becomes thick, cool off, add some chives and chervil chopped fine, and a little mayonnaise. Spread over the fillets, and cover with a mayonnaise rose. Decorate to taste with fancy-cut truffles, pickles, etc. Serve very cold. Consomme Sevigne. White meat of chicken and smoked beef tongue cut Julienne, (in the shape of matches). Serve in consomme with a sprinkle of chopped chervil. Sweetbreads braise, Pompadour. Braise the sweetbreads until about twothirds done. Cool a little and cover with a thin layer of chicken force meat. Decorate all around with chopped tongue, with chopped truffles in the center. Replace in pan, using the same stock used before, but strained. Cover with buttered manilla paper and return to oven to finish cooking. Serve with own gravy and a little Maderia sauce. Terrine de foie gras a la gelee. Put the foie gras on ice for a few hours. Carve from the terrine with a table spoon and place on a platter covered with a napkin. Decorate with meat jelly cut in triangles and chopped, and parsley in branches.