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Menu for November 17 |
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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
Baked apples Boiled eggs Toast Coffee
Grapefruit with cherries Steak and kidney pie Cream cheese Maryland beaten biscuits
Consomme Madrilene
Ripe California olives
Sand dabs, meuniere
Butterball duck with currant jelly
Fried hominy
French endive salad
Asparagus, Hollandaise
Fancy ice cream
Assorted cakes
Coffee
Grapefruit with cherries. Cut the grapefruit in two pieces. Split some maraschino cherries and decorate. Pour a little maraschino on top.
Steak and kidney pie. Use individual pie dishes. A slice of raw sirloin steak one-half inch thick, cut in two. Two lamb kidneys cut in two. Salt, pepper, and roll in flour, put in pie dish and cover with a little cold water. Cover with piecrust dough and bake in oven for about eighteen minutes. Serve in the dishes in which they were baked, on napkins.
Butterball duck. Roast in hot oven for about twelve minutes.
Assorted cakes. Any kind of small cakes. Serve on a compotier, on doily. The more varied the assortment the better.
Maryland beaten biscuits. To one pint of sifted flour add one heaping teaspoonful of lard, or butter, and a little salt. Mix with one pint of sweet milk to stiff dough. Beat with a mallet for one hour. The succcess of same depends upon the beating. Shape as for tea biscuits and bake.
Macaroons. Mix one pound of almond paste with one pound of powdered sugar. Add the whites of six eggs and a spoonful of flour and mix well. Squeeze through a pastry bag onto paper, moisten the tops with water, using a brush, and bake in a very slow oven for about twenty minutes.
Lady fingers. Eight eggs, with the yolks and whites separate, one-half pound of sugar, one-half pound of flour, and some vanilla flavoring extract. Beat the sugar with the yolks until light; then beat the whites very stiff. Mix the flour with the yolks and sugar, then add the beaten whites and mix lightly. Dress on paper with a plain pastry bag, in the shape wanted. Dust powdered sugar on top and bake in a moderate oven.
 
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