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The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book

by Victor Hirtzler

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February 10

BREAKFASTLUNCHEON
GrapefruitPickled oysters
Omelet with chivesToasted rye bread
Corn muffinsConsommé vermicelli
CoffeeCalf’s head à la poulette
Potato croquettes
Hot mince pie
American cheese
Coffee
DINNER
Purée of pheasant, St. Hubert
Planked smelts
Bacon and cabbage
Boiled potatoes
Roast ribs of beef, au jus
Chiffonnade salad
Tutti frutti ice cream
Assorted cakes
Coffee

Consommé vermicelli. Boil one-half pound of vermicelli in two quarts of salt water for five minutes. Drain, and add to three pints of consommé. Serve grated cheese separate.

Calf’s head, poulette. Take one boiled calf’s head and cut in pieces two inches square. Mix with one quart of poulette sauce, and serve in chafing dish.

Purée of pheasant, St. Hubert. Remove the breast of a roasted pheasant and cut in small squares. Put the rest of the pheasant in a pot and cover with two quarts of bouillon, add a bouquet garni, and boil for one hour. In a sauce pot put three ounces of butter; when hot add three spoonsful of flour, and allow to become nice and brown. Then strain the broth into the sauce pot and boil for thirty minutes. Chop the pheasant very fine and add to the soup, boil again, and strain through a fine sieve. Season with salt and pepper, add the cut-up pheasant breast, and a glass of fine dry sherry wine.

Bacon and cabbage. Cut a large head of cabbage in four, wash well, and put in two quarts of water, with a little salt, and boil. Then drain off the water, add fresh water and two pounds of bacon, and boil until the bacon is well done. Put the cabbage on a platter, slice the bacon and put on top of the cabbage.

Tutti frutti ice cream. Macerate one-quarter of a pound of chopped candied mixed fruit in a pony of maraschino. Mix thoroughly with one quart of vanilla ice cream. Put in the bottom of a mould a little raspberry water ice, and fill to the top with the ice cream and fruit. Pack in ice and rock salt, and leave for about an hour and a half. Turn out on platter and decorate with candied cherries and angelica.

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