This section is from the "The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book" book, by Victor Hirtzler. Amazon: The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book
Picked up codfish in cream Rolls Coffee
Grapefruit with maraschino Poached eggs, a l'lndienne Nivernaise salad German huckleberry pie Coffee
Oysters on half shell Clam broth in cups Salted almonds Boiled whitefish, Golfin Hollandaise potatoes Salade Rejane Pistache ice cream Assorted cakes Coffee
Picked-up codfish in cream. Soak one pound of codfish in cold water over night. Cut two fresh-boiled potatoes in small squares. Put the codfish in cold water and boil for ten minutes, drain, and shred the fish in small pieces. Put in pot with the potatoes, add two cups of cream sauce, salt and a little Cayenne pepper, and simmer for ten minutes.
Poached eggs, a l'lndienne. Lay hot poached eggs on plain boiled rice and cover with curry sauce.
Curry sauce. Simmer one onion, one leek, a small piece of celery, one bay leaf, a branch of thyme and a little garlic in three ounces of butter. Then add two spoonsful of curry powder and two of flour. When hot add one quart of stock, one sliced apple, one sliced banana saute in butter, and one-half cup of Indian chutney. Boil for twenty minutes, strain through a fine sieve and salt to taste. This sauce is used for chicken, fish, oysters, lamb, veal, etc., and should be made respectively with chicken broth, fish broth, juice of oysters, and so forth.
Salade Nivernaise. Cut in dices cooked carrots, beets and turnips. Place in salad bowl in separate piles with a bouquet of watercress in center. Season with French dressing.
Boiled whitefish, Golfin. Boil in the same manner as codfish. Serve on napkin, garnished with parsley, lemon and small boiled potatoes. Serve sauce separate. See below.
Sauce Golfin. White wine sauce mixed with small strips of boiled smoked tongue and gherkins.
Salade Rejane. Boiled celery root and artichoke buttons, and two tomatoes cut in squares. Place in salad bowl in separate piles. Slice two pimentos and place in center. Season with French dressing.
Pistache ice cream. Prepare a vanilla ice cream mixture. Crush one-quarter pound of pistachio nuts to a very fine paste, mix with a little orange flower water and two ounces of sugar. Infuse in the vanilla ice cream mixture, and strain when hot. Allow to become cold, color a very light green, and freezeu
 
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