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The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book

by Victor Hirtzler

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September 6

BREAKFASTLUNCHEON
Baked pears with creamCantaloupe
Broiled salmon bellies with melted butterEggs, Jockey Club
Plain boiled potatoesCold chicken and tongue, meat jelly
RollsString bean and tomato salad
CoffeeAmerican dairy cheese with crackers
Coffee
DINNER
Macaroni soup, with leeks
California ripe olives
Fillet of flounder, Chilienne
Roast loin of veal, au jus
Stuffed egg plant
Asparagus tips in cream
Cleo potatoes Escarole salad
Chocolate éclairs Demi tasse

Eggs, Jockey Club. Shirred eggs garnished with veal kidneys sauté au Madère.

String bean and tomato salad. Equal parts of fresh-boiled cold string beans and peeled and quartered tomatoes. Put the beans around the edge of a salad bowl and the tomatoes in the center. Serve with French dressing and fresh-chopped parsley.

Macaroni soup with leeks. Slice six stalks of leek very thin, and put in casserole with three ounces of butter. Simmer until the leeks are cooked; then add two quarts of bouillon, stock or chicken broth; and bring to a boil. Then add six ounces of macaroni that has been boiled in salted water for fifteen minutes and then cut in pieces one inch long. Boil again for fifteen minutes, and season with salt and pepper. It is ready to serve when the macaroni is soft. Serve grated cheese separate.

Fillet of flounder, Chilienne. Put four fillets of flounder in a flat buttered baking dish, season with salt and pepper, lay four parboiled oysters on top of each fillet, and cover all with sauce Créole. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bread crumbs, put small bits of butter on top, and bake in oven for thirty minutes. Serve in the same dish, sprinkled with chopped parsley.

Stuffed egg plant. Three tablespoonfuls of sweet butter, one-half cupful of fresh bread crumbs, one cup of bouillon, the breast or leg of a cooked chicken chopped very fine, one egg, one-half glass of white wine, one pony of sherry wine, one tablespoonful of flour; and for seasoning use salt and pepper, and a little grated nutmeg, if desired. Cut three egg plants in two lengthwise, and scoop out the centers, leaving the shell a half inch thick. Soak half a cup of bread crumbs in a little stock or bouillon for five minutes; then add the chicken, two spoonfuls of butter, the egg, well beaten, and the chopped centers of the egg plant. Season, fill the egg plant shells, sprinkle with fresh bread crumbs, put small bits of butter on top, set in pan with a spoonful of olive oil, pour in the rest of the bouillon and white wine, and bake in a moderate oven. Serve on hot dishes, with the following sauce. Heat one spoonful of flour with one spoonful of butter, add the sherry wine and a cupful of the broth from the pan in which the egg plant was baked, and cook for five minutes. Pour the sauce around the egg plant.

Asparagus tips in cream. Make half a pint of cream sauce, and season well. Heat a can of asparagus tips in its own water; drain, lay in a deep vegetable dish, and pour the cream sauce over them.

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