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The international cook book

1929

Page 137

Presented as published in 1929. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
a handful of finely chopped green parsley, a clove of garlic, a handful of bread crumbs, salt, pepper. Mix all well together and fill the artichokes. Place them in a ste'VN'pan, one against the other, add water to the length of two fingers, and let them stew gently until the water has boiled away and only the oil remains. The artichokes may be allowed to catch a little on the bottom of the pot,, as the Hght crust thus formed gives it a deUcious taste. Chef Max Guttera, Grand Hotel Elefani, Graz, Austria Braised Beef a la Mcxie Lard five pounds of rump of beef with fresh larding pork. Season with salt and pepper and lay in earthen pot. Cover with half cooking claret, half water. Add one sliced onion, and one sliced carrot, and allow to stand for twenty-four hours. Put a tablespoon of melted butter in a casserole and when the casserole is hot, put in the piece of beef and fry brown on both sides. Remove beef to a platter. Add to the casserole two table- spoons butter and two tablespoons flour. Let this become brown, then add the cooking wine, water, and vegetables used in the earthen pot. Put the beef in it and simmer until tender. Place the beef on a platter and strain the sauce through a fine sieve. Garnish with carrots, onions, and peas. Chef William Haag, The Macdonald Hotel, Edmonton, Canada Chocolate Bavarian Cream Mix the yolks of six eggs with four tablespoons granulated sugar and two ounces grated chocolate. Add one pint of milk. Set on fire in double boiler and cook over boiling water. Stii- till the cream thickens. Dissolve in a little milk a package of gelatine. Add this to the cream and strain the mixture into a basin. Place on ice, stirring tUl the mixture begins to set. Then add one pint of whipped cream. Put a mould on the ice, pour in the cream, cover with ice. When quite set, turn it out and serve. Chef William Ha-a.g, The Macdonald Hotel, Edmonton, Canada INTERNATIONAL RECIPES 331 Butterscotch Rice Pudding 1 tablespoon gelatine 3 cups milk )/^ cup rice i cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons butter >2 teaspoon salt }4 cup cold water Wash the rice and cook it until nearly done in a double boiler with two cups of scalded milk and the salt. Meanwhile cook together in a shallow pan the brown sugar and butter until it gets very dark brown, but not burnt. Add this to the rice and milk. Cook until the rice is tender and the caramel melted. Soften the gelatine in the cold water and then dissolve it in a cup of hot milk. Pour this into the cooked rice mixture and turn into a cold wet mould. Chef William Haag, The Macdonald Hotel, Edmonton, Canada Almond Pie Make a paste of one pound brown sugar, one-half pound butter, and one and one-half pounds flour. Then cover the bottom and edge of a pie dish •with it, about as thick as your little finger. Take one-half pound butter and mix with it one- half pound cut almonds, four eggs, and one ounce flour, and fill the pie with it. Cover with strips of the paste that is left over and bake slowly. Chef David de Haay, S.S. Volendam, Holland-America Line Chicken Broth