797— Eqg Quenelk^s for Turtle Sauce
and Soup.
2 hard boiled yolks.
Yz as much hot boiled potato.
I teaspoon chopped parsley.
Cayenne and salt.
I raw yolk✪ Egg Quenelles for Turtle Sauce and Soup.
Mash all together. Make up in balls
size of cherries, with flour on the hands.
Poach them a minute or two in a frying-
pan of boiling water. ^ Take up on a skim-
mer and drop them into the soup.
798— Forcemeat Balls or Quenelles.
cold veal.
Yo, the weight of fine bread crumbs.
2 or 3 tablespoons melted butter.
Seasoning of sweet herbs, and nutmeg.
Pepper and salt.
I raw egg✪ Forcemeat Balls or Quenelles.
Mince the meat small, add the other
ingredients, and pound them all togeth-
er. Make up in little balls, with flour
on the hands. Poach them in boiling
water and put them in the soup.
The above two mixtures can be used
as croquettes, made into shapes, and fried
and are good to place as ornamental
acessories in the sauces to fish and
meats.
799— Scallops of Mutton. Provencale
or Creole
Yi a calfs tongue, cocked, or some
A scallop of meat is a thin slice or steak,
as is the Scotch coUop and the French
escalope. Anything a la Provencale in
French rookery is the same as a la Creole
in American, it implies tomatoes, onions,
cayenne, oil, wine and sometimes garlic.
For this dish cut small slices of mutton,
saute them first in a frying pan, light
brown, then simmer in water, stock or
sauce until they are tender and add suf-
ficient strained tomatoes to serve as a
sauce. Season the^ meat and sauce
while stewing with onion, salt and pepper,
A leaf shape of fried bread is a good orn-
ament to the dish.
800— Apple Cream Pie
2 cups stewed apple — a pint.
I cup sugar — Yz pound.
I cup milk.
Y2 cup butter — y^ pound
4 eggs (or 8 yolks if any left over)
Yz cup sherry✪ Apple Cream Pie or nutmeg or lemon
flavoring.
Have the apples dry by cooking with
scarcely any water but the steam shut in,
mix apples, sugar and butter together
and milk and eggs together, stir up all
and flavor. Make 5 cupfuls, enough for
4 pies large family size to cut in 6 or 8,
like a custard with no top crust. Cost,
with wine 31 cents, without wine 25;
crust for 4 pies 8 cents.
SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL GAZETTE'S
9S
Dinner
July 30.
Soup— Potage a V Andalouse (8qts^48
cents.)
Sliced cucumbers and tomatoes (12 cts.)
Broiled whitefish, Venitienne (4 lbs and
sauce 52 cents.)
Potatoes dauphine.
Boiled corned tongue (28 cents)
Roast beef (i rib ^ 2j^ lbs net 32 cents)
Spring lamb, mint sauce, (6 lbs and
sauce 75 cents.)
Veal stew a la Milanaise (ij^ lbs and
trimmings 23 cents.)
Rissoles of sweet breads with truffles (28
orders 6o cents.)
Beets in sauce io,rice 5, green peas 15,
string beans 4, corn 15, tomatoes 8, pota-
toes 12, (69 cents.)
Steamed currant roll (No. 809 ; 2 lbs
with sauce 18 cents.)
Pumpkin pie (No. 810; without eggs, 3
large, 20 cents.)
Rasberry tarts (24 tarts 30 cents .)
Delmonico ice cream (No 201 ; 3 qts 80
cents.)
Chocolate and rose kisses (No 461 ;
20 cents.)
Cake, assorted kinds (15 cents.)
Milk, cream, butter, bread, cheese,
pickles, coffee, tea, sugar and crackers
(i.iS)
Total, $6.97 ; 49 persons; fraction over
14 cents a plate.
The dinner above prepared for 49 per-
sons was partaken of by only 32, the rest
being away across the lake. Much pro-
vision was left over to be taken care of
as best it may, some for supper and
breakfast, some for the next day's dinner.
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797— Egg Quenelles for Turtle Sauce and Soup.
2 hard boiled yolks.
Yz as much hot boiled potato.
I teaspoon chopped parsley.
Cayenne and salt.
I raw yolk.
Mash all together. Make up in balls size of cherries, with flour on the hands. Poach them a minute or two in a fryingpan of boiling water. ^ Take up on a skimmer and drop them into the soup.
798— Forcemeat Balls or Quenelles.
cold veal.
Yo, the weight of fine bread crumbs.
2 or 3 tablespoons melted butter.
Seasoning of sweet herbs, and nutmeg.
Pepper and salt.
I raw egg.
Mince the meat small, add the other ingredients, and pound them all together. Make up in little balls, with flour on the hands. Poach them in boiling water and put them in the soup.
The above two mixtures can be used as croquettes, made into shapes, and fried and are good to place as ornamental accessories in the sauces to fish and meats.
7240— Scallops of Mutton. Provencale or Creole
Yi a calfs tongue, cocked, or some
A scallop of meat is a thin slice or steak, as is the Scotch coUop and the French escalope. Anything a la Provencale in French rookery is the same as a la Creole in American, it implies tomatoes, onions, cayenne, oil, wine and sometimes garlic.
For this dish cut small slices of mutton, saute them first in a frying pan, light brown, then simmer in water, stock or sauce until they are tender and add sufficient strained tomatoes to serve as a sauce. Season the^ meat and sauce while stewing with onion, salt and pepper, A leaf shape of fried bread is a good ornament to the dish.
800— Apple Cream Pie
2 cups stewed apple — a pint.
I cup sugar — Yz pound.
I cup milk.
Y2 cup butter — y^ pound
4 eggs (or 8 yolks if any left over)
Yz cup sherry or nutmeg or lemon flavoring.
Have the apples dry by cooking with scarcely any water but the steam shut in, mix apples, sugar and butter together and milk and eggs together, stir up all and flavor. Make 5 cupfuls, enough for 4 pies large family size to cut in 6 or 8, like a custard with no top crust. Cost, with wine 31 cents, without wine 25; crust for 4 pies 8 cents.
9S
Dinner
July 30.
Soup— Potage a V Andalouse (8qts^48 cents.)
Sliced cucumbers and tomatoes (12 cts.)
Broiled whitefish, Venitienne (4 lbs and sauce 52 cents.)
Potatoes dauphine.
Boiled corned tongue (28 cents)
Roast beef (i rib ^ 2j^ lbs net 32 cents)
Spring lamb, mint sauce, (6 lbs and sauce 75 cents.)
Veal stew a la Milanaise (ij^ lbs and trimmings 23 cents.)
Rissoles of sweet breads with truffles (28 orders 6o cents.)
Beets in sauce io,rice 5, green peas 15, string beans 4, corn 15, tomatoes 8, potatoes 12, (69 cents.)
Steamed currant roll (No. 809 ; 2 lbs with sauce 18 cents.)
Pumpkin pie (No. 810; without eggs, 3 large, 20 cents.)
Rasberry tarts (24 tarts 30 cents .)
Delmonico ice cream (No 201 ; 3 qts 80 cents.)
Chocolate and rose kisses (No 461 ; 20 cents.) Cake, assorted kinds (15 cents.) Milk, cream, butter, bread, cheese, pickles, coffee, tea, sugar and crackers
(i.iS)
Total, $6.97 ; 49 persons; fraction over 14 cents a plate.
The dinner above prepared for 49 persons was partaken of by only 32, the rest being away across the lake. Much provision was left over to be taken care of as best it may, some for supper and breakfast, some for the next day's dinner.
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