The half-French bill-of-fare name for

Irish stew, No. 60. But there can be beef stew a la Irlandaise as well as mutton ; it is beef stewed with potatoes, and a very cheap dish. It is good with tomatoes added, but then these stews have other names, for the original Irish stew has no tomatoes, and some people, driven almost insane through everything that is brought to them in an hotel being flavored with tomatoes against their lik-ing, (the consequence of the indiscriminate use of Spanish sauce), are glad to turn to it for relief, and hope it will always keep its original character. In writing a bill of fare observe that when "a la" comes before a vowel, as in Irlandaise or a l' Italienne or a l'Andalouse - the second "a" is omitted, and the apostrophe takes its place; but the full "a la" comes in before a consonant, like a la Richelieu.