The Hotel St. Francis cook book

Lobster croquettes. Three cups of lobster cut in small dices, one cup of canned or fresh mushrooms, and one truffle chopped fine. Simmer all in butter, then add one-half glass of sherry wine and cook for two minutes, then add two cups of cream sauce and reduce. Bind with the yolks of three eggs. Follow directions for chicken croquettes for cooking and serving. Preserved figs with cream Petite marmite Shirred eggs Broiled lobster Dry toast Roast beef Cocoa Cleo potatoes String bean salad Lemon pie Coffee Potage Duchesse Fillet of sole, Marguery Roast lamb, mint sauce Succotash Broiled fresh mushrooms on toast Alligator pear salad Peach Tetrazzini Assorted cakes Coffee Petite marmite. Put in a vessel with cold water to cover, five pounds of short ribs of beef and a soup hen. Season with a spoonful of salt, and bring to a boil, and skim carefully so the broth will be clear. Then add two large carrots, three turnips, a piece of cabbage, one stalk of celery and four leeks, all tied in a cheese cloth ; one bouquet garni, and a large marrow bone. When beef and fowl are well done remove, take off the skin and fat and cut the meat in pieces one inch square. Remove the bouquet garni, and cut the cabbage, carrots, turnips, celery and leeks in round pieces one-half inch in diameter. Put the beef, chicken and vegetables in another pot and strain the broth over them. Boil slowly for five minutes. Have your butcher saw some raw marrow bones in wafers as thin as paper, and add them to the soup at the last moment. Serve very hot in soup tureen, with a sprinkle of chopped chervil. Cut some crust of bread or rolls in diamond shape, bake in oven till brown, and serve separate. Special earthern petite marmite pots are carried at the large stores, and are preferable to tureens for serving. Broiled lobster. Cut a live lobster in two lengthwise, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with olive oil, and broil on hot iron. Serve with maitre d'hotel sauce, garnished with lemons and parsley. Cleo potatoes. Cut raw potatoes in pear shapes the size of an egg, parboil in salt water, then put in a well-buttered pan pointed end up, sprinkle with melted butter and roast in oven, basting all the time till brown. When done, salt and serve on napkin, garnished with parsley. String bean salad. Put in salad bowl some cold boiled string beans, sprinkle with very finely-sliced chives, chopped parsley, salt and fresh-ground black pepper, and one-third vinegar and two-thirds olive oil. Potage Duchesse. Cream of rice with royal in strips. Fillet of sole, Marguery. Prepare the sole as for "au vin blanc." Place on top of each fillet two parboiled mussels, and two heads of French mushrooms, cover with sauce "au vin blanc," sprinkle with bread crumbs made from stale rolls, and a little butter, and bake in hot oven until a light yellow color. Hothouse raspberries with cream Blue Points, mignonette Oatmeal Bisque d'ecrevisses Rolls Salted almonds. Celery Coffee Ripe California olives Fillet of trout, Cafe de Paris Sweetbreads braise, au jus Puree de marrons Roast goose, apple sauce T TT™™^,, Sweet Potatoes, Southern style LUNCHEON Pate de foie gras de Strasbourg Eggs mmisterielle Lettuce salad, aux fines herbes