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Hotel Books. Part 2 |
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This section is from the "The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book" book, by Victor Hirtzler. Amazon: The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book
Supplemented with chapters on hors d'oeuvres, supremes, canapes and relishes. More than 600 recipes. This book is by the author of the Edgewater Salad Book, the most important culinary book produced in recent years. There are thirty illustrations of sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. It will meet the requirements of all kinds of refreshment places from the soda fountain to lunch room, tea room and high-class restaurant. Bound in convenient pocket size.
The book that has met with the largest sale and is in most demand from managers, stewards and cooks. It is in vest pocket form, 220 pages. The most complete and serviceable pocket reference book to culinary matters that has ever been published. It is not a cook book, in the general sense of the word, but is full of ideas and suggestions regarding bill-of-fare dishes. Chapters are devoted to entrees of all kinds, salads, soups, consommes, fish and their sauces, sauces in general, garnishes, fancy potatoes, miscellaneous recipes, hints to cooks and stewards, suggestions for breakfast, lunch and supper dishes, chafing dish cookery, menus, and a pronouncing glossary of culinary terms. Hundreds of the dishes listed are given with their bill-of-fare names only, as the cooks understand the basic work in preparing dishes, and the sauces and garnishes are treated separately, with information as to their component parts. Thousands of men who possess a copy of this book say it is their greatest help. Printed on bond paper, bound in flexible cover.
The author has cultivated a new field in culinary literature, and produced a book both novel and useful. His experience as butcher, carver, chef and steward enabled him to compile facts regarding meats and meat economics, from the butcher shop to the dining-room table, that will be invaluable to managers, stewards, chefs, and all persons employed in culinary work. His book digests the subjects of buying, handling, sale, and service of meats, poultry and fish for hotels, restaurants, clubs and institutions. It is varied with suggestions for the use of meats and trimmings for particular dishes; the composition of these dishes set forth in concise form. The information is clarified by the use of about 300 illustration*. The index is so comprehensive that any item may be referred to on the instant. 125 pages.
Presents in concise form information regarding the preparation and service of nearly 4,000 different bill-of-fare dishes; also gives much information of encyclopedic nature regarding foods of all kinds. Quick reference to every dish described is facilitated with an index of 89 columns arranged in alphabetical order, and cross indexed so that no matter what one is looking for, all he has to do is to find the initial letter and under it, in alphabetical order, for second, third and fourth letters, etc., the article wanted, with page on which it is found. Referring, for instance, to a sauce of any particular kind. Find the word Sauce in the index, and under it will be found in alphabetical order 149 different sauces; and under Salads 71 different kinds, exclusive of the variations in making. Under head of Sausage there are 45 different kinds described, with directions for making as well as cooking and serving. In fact, the sausage information in this book is more complete than in any other published. 190 pages; 7 x 10 inches.
This is the title in brief of "Paul Richards' Book of Breads, Cakes, Pastries, Ices and Sweetmeats, Especially Adapted for Hotel and Catering Purposes." The author is known as one of the most skillful all around bakers, pastry cooks and confectioners in America, and has demonstrated the quality of his work in leading hotels. In writing this book he took particular pains to have the recipes reliable and worded in such simple fashion that all who read them may readily understand and work from them. The book is in seven parts. Part I is devoted to fruit jellies and preserves; jams, jellies, compotes and syrups; preserved crushed fruits for sherbets and ices; preserving pie fruits; sugar boiling degrees; colors. Part II, pastry and pie making, pastes and fillings ; pastry creams, patty cases, tarts and tartlets; icings. Part III, cake baking; Part IV, puddings and sauces. Part V, ice creams, ices, punches, etc. Part VI, breads, rolls, buns, etc. Part VII, candy making and miscellaneous recipes; bread economies in hotel; caterers' price list. The recipes are readily found with the aid to 36 columns of index and cross index in the back of the book, this index forming in itself a complete directory, so to speak, of breads, pastry, ices and sugar foods. Printed on strong white paper; pages 7 x 10 inches, 168 pages, bound in cloth.
 
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