Mint Wafers

Ingredients

• half a gill of water
• one pound of powdered sugar
• three or four drops of oil of peppermint

Method

1. 1

   Mix water and powdered sugar over fire until dissolved and hot.

2. 2

   Add peppermint oil.

3. 3

   Drop mixture on waxed paper or greased pan and allow to cool and dry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 229. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mint wafers Mortadelle. This is an Italian sausage, very highly seasoned, and comes in cans already sliced. Serve on a platter garnished with chopped meat, jelly and parsley in branches. Poached eggs, Zurlo. Form some flat potato croquettes, and fry. Place a poached egg on top of each, and cover with cream sauce. Consomme Leopold. Slice very fine one handful of sorrel and a head of lettuce. Wash well, and boil in two quarts of chicken broth for about thirty minutes. Serve with chervil. Broiled Smelts, a 1'Americaine. Split and remove the bones from twelve large smelts. Season with salt and pepper, roll in oil, and broil. When done place on a platter, garnish with six slices of broiled tomatoes, two lemons cut in half, and parsley in branches. Pour a little maitre d'hotel sauce over all. Chicken Leon X. Put on fire, in cold water, one large fat roasting chicken or capon. Add salt, one carrot, and a bouquet garni. Boil until soft. Make a sauce with two ounces of butter mixed with two ounces of flour. When hot add one pint of the chicken broth. If too thick add a little more of the broth. Boil for half an hour. Then bind with the yolks of three eggs mixed with a cup of cream. Strain, and add two ounces of sweet butter. Stir the sauce well until the butter is melted. Place the chicken on a platter and garnish with macaroni cooked in cream. Pour a little of the sauce over the chicken. To the remainder of the sauce add in equal parts some sliced truffle, sliced canned French mushrooms and parboiled goose liver. Serve this sauce separate. Mint wafers (after dinner mints). To half a gill of water add one pound of powdered sugar, and mix over fire until dissolved and hot. Add three or four drops of oil of peppermint

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