Oatmeal i cup raw, 2 cents.
Beefsteak (2 pounds loin, clear, 40
cents.)
Eggs, scrambled (6 orders, 12 eggs, 17
cents.)
Potatoes, stewed in cream (7 cents.)
Biscuits (2 doz., 15 cents.)
Batter cakes (cheapest; 3 pints batter,
8 cents.)
Syrup ([2 cents.)
Butter (i pound for table and steak,
25 cents.)
Milk, cream, coffee, tea, 22 cents.
$1 48; 19 persons, nearly 8 cents a
plate.
[-34— Potatoes Stewed i.n Cream,
Variously called stewed potatoes,
minced potatoes in cream, and other
ways, and a favorite way with many
people. Take cold cooked potatoes,
slice them as thin as possible into a stew
pan, pour in good milk to come up even
with the sliced potatoes and set over the
fire. While it is heating, chop the po-
tatoes small with a knife point, add salt,
butter and cream, according as can be
afforded.✪ Potatoes Stewed in Cream When made as most people
535— Clabber Batter Cakes.
About the easiest, quickest made and
best batter cakes, are made with only
four ingredients, viz-, '^clabber," or milk
curdled by souring, flour, soda and salt.
Take a little sifted flour in a pan,
add the "clabber" until it can be stirred
to the proper consistency to bake on a
griddle, then a'dd a little salt and soda.
There is no measure to give only that in
a general way 2 cups of sour milk needs i
teaspoon of soda.✪ Clabber Batter Cakes
When you make other .lour^ batter
calces, syrup, eggs and shortening are
needed — the syrup to make them brown
easily — but these "clabber" cakes need
nothing but what is named above.
This is the Fourth, the great excursion
day. Flags are flying at the large hotels
at the depot and at the Trulirural House.
There is some danger that a few of the
straggling excursionists may come to our
house to dinner and we are not prepared.
Stores have not arrived ; scarcely a thing
in the house besides the meat and fish.
So much uncertainty it is useless to pre-
pare extra dishes or even ice cream, but
it is well enough to make a little larger
quantity of such plain things as we must
have.
Dinner.
Tomato and green pease soup (4 qts.
28 cents.)
Fillet (leg) of veal stuffed (4 pounds
veal, 52, and dressing 5; ^7 cents.)
Potatoes mashed and browned do
cents.)
Corn (i can, 15 cents.)
Plum pies (4 covered, of two cans
plums 28 ; sugar, 6 ; crust, 10 ; 44 cents,
24 cuts.)
Cream curd pudding with sauce (al-
lowing full price for the soured milk, 27
cents.)
Second cooking :
Fish, fried (12 pieces, 2^^ lbs gross, 25 ;
lard, 5 ; 30 cents.)
Mutton chops (2 pounds, 24 cents.)
Eggs (6, special order, 8 cents.)
Milk (6 quarts, 18 cents.)
SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL GAZETTE'S
20
Bread (15 cen<:s.)
Cream (i qt., 20 cents.)
Coffee (one-third pound, 10 cents.)
Butter, sugar,- etc. (20 cents.)
Total dinner, $3 26; 30 persons, 11
cents a plate.
In this case it turned out as was half
expected for at just about the time that
the regular dinner was ended there came
two little parties of five and six persons
respectively, making eleven more to fur-
nish dinner to. Such little parties com-
ing on the heels of a meal are generally
profitable to the hotel keeper. On this
occasion there was enough soup, coffee,
potatoes, pudding and pie remaining and
the fish and mutton chops specially
cooked made up a good and plentiful
dinner at an add tional expense of less
than a dollar. The party of eleven con
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Oatmeal i cup raw, 2 cents.
Beefsteak (2 pounds loin, clear, 40 cents.)
Eggs, scrambled (6 orders, 12 eggs, 17 cents.)
Potatoes, stewed in cream (7 cents.)
Biscuits (2 doz., 15 cents.)
Batter cakes (cheapest; 3 pints batter, 8 cents.)
Syrup ((2 cents.)
Butter (i pound for table and steak, 25 cents.)
Milk, cream, coffee, tea, 22 cents.
$1 48; 19 persons, nearly 8 cents a plate.
[534— Potatoes Stewed in Cream,
Variously called stewed potatoes, minced potatoes in cream, and other ways, and a favorite way with many people. Take cold cooked potatoes, slice them as thin as possible into a stew pan, pour in good milk to come up even with the sliced potatoes and set over the fire. While it is heating, chop the potatoes small with a knife point, add salt, butter and cream, according as can be afforded. When made as most people
535— Clabber Batter Cakes.
About the easiest, quickest made and best batter cakes, are made with only four ingredients, viz-, "clabber," or milk curdled by souring, flour, soda and salt.
Take a little sifted flour in a pan, add the "clabber" until it can be stirred to the proper consistency to bake on a griddle, then a'dd a little salt and soda. There is no measure to give only that in a general way 2 cups of sour milk needs i teaspoon of soda.
When you make other flour batter calces, syrup, eggs and shortening are needed — the syrup to make them brown easily — but these "clabber" cakes need nothing but what is named above.
This is the Fourth, the great excursion day. Flags are flying at the large hotels at the depot and at the Trulirural House. There is some danger that a few of the straggling excursionists may come to our house to dinner and we are not prepared. Stores have not arrived ; scarcely a thing in the house besides the meat and fish. So much uncertainty it is useless to prepare extra dishes or even ice cream, but it is well enough to make a little larger quantity of such plain things as we must have.
Dinner.
Tomato and green pease soup (4 qts. 28 cents.)
Fillet (leg) of veal stuffed (4 pounds veal, 52, and dressing 5; ^7 cents.)
Potatoes mashed and browned do cents.)
Corn (i can, 15 cents.)
Plum pies (4 covered, of two cans plums 28 ; sugar, 6 ; crust, 10 ; 44 cents, 24 cuts.)
Cream curd pudding with sauce (allowing full price for the soured milk, 27 cents.)
Second cooking :
Fish, fried (12 pieces, 2^^ lbs gross, 25 ; lard, 5 ; 30 cents.)
Mutton chops (2 pounds, 24 cents.)
Eggs (6, special order, 8 cents.)
Milk (6 quarts, 18 cents.)
Bread (15 cents.)
Cream (i qt., 20 cents.)
Coffee (one-third pound, 10 cents.)
Butter, sugar,- etc. (20 cents.)
Total dinner, $3 26; 30 persons, 11 cents a plate.
In this case it turned out as was half expected for at just about the time that the regular dinner was ended there came two little parties of five and six persons respectively, making eleven more to furnish dinner to. Such little parties coming on the heels of a meal are generally profitable to the hotel keeper. On this occasion there was enough soup, coffee, potatoes, pudding and pie remaining and the fish and mutton chops specially cooked made up a good and plentiful dinner at an add tional expense of less than a dollar. The party of eleven con
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