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1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Soup — Corn and tomato (7 qts 40 cents.) Halibut, Maryland style (4 lbs 50, tnm- mings 20, 70 cents.) Fried hominy. Boiled chicken with salt pork (5 /owls I 25, pork 12, and sauce 140 cents.) Roast beef (3 ribs short, 7 lbs 90 cents.) Lyonaise of liver with fried crusts (10 orders, 12 cents.) Queen fritters, vanilla sauce (65 cents.) Browned sweet potatoes 25, lima beans 6, corn 10, cabbage 6, potatoes 13 (60 COOKING FOR PROFIT. ^55 ents.) English suet pudding (29 cents.) Peach pie {5 pies, 40 cents.) Blackberry meringue (55 cents.) Apples, nuts, raisins, cheese, condi- ments (54 cents.) Milk, cream 66, coffee, tea, sugar, bread, butter 52 (118 cents.) Total, $7 73; 54 persons; 14^^ cents a plate. 103&— Corn and Tomato Soup. One quart green corn cut off the cob, one quart tomatoes chopped small, one pint mixed vegetables cut small in five quarts seasoned soup stock. Boil up and season to taste. 1036 -Halibut, Maryland Style. Halibut steak cut thin, breaded in corn meal and fried in a small quantity of salt pork fatHalibut, Maryland Style— not immersed but in a frying pan and turned over to brown. Serve a slice of the dry fried salt pork on top of the fish and a thin slice of fried hominy in a separate dish. 1037— Fried Hominy. Fine hominy made into mush same as oatmeal. Cut thin slices when cold, divide them in diamond shapes, flour on both sides and fry li^ht colored. Serve with fish and chicken. 1038— Boihd Chicken with Salt Poik. blocks; cover with a lid and let them simmer together half an hour. Pour off the grease, shake a basting spoon of flour into the pan and stir until the liver is coated with it; pour in soup stock or water barely to cover; salt and pepper, and let stew half an hour longer. Bordei the dishes with minced eggs and parsley or croutons or potato balls. Boil 5 fowls, time according to age, and a pound of salt pork with theni, and make a cream sauce. Serve a joint of fowl with sauce poured over and a srnall slice of streaked pork by way of garnish. 1039— Lyjnaise of Liver with Crusts. Fri d It is liver and onions in brown sauce. Fry a cupful or more of chopped onionsLyonnaise of Liver with Crusts, green ones are preferable, in roast meat tat and throw in the liver cut in small 1040— Browned Sweet Potatoes, Boil or steam first, and then brown in the oven; dredge salt and baste with butter or drippings. 1041— How Many Cooks Many People? to How My second used to do up her hair one day with blue ribbon and the next day with pink, in the old happy days five or six weeks ago when there was nobody in the house, and singing began and ended the day ; now the boat boy never comes to turn the ice cream freezer; nobody has time to help her and she wears no more ribbons; she has soured on the work and gets mad if I call her "sec." All hotel hands are working under a heavy pressure now, at the busiest time of all; there is no getting help when every hand is already at work that can be found. At various times it has fallen to me to take charge of a kitchen for a fixed sum and pay all the other hands myself, when the fewer I had to help me the more money I had left. For such times I had a rule formulated that i cook and i helper are required for 25 peo-- ple, and i more for every 25 additional, and at this late day I find no reason to change the estimate.