The Hotel St. Francis cook book

Potage Maintenon. Put a soup hen and two pounds of veal bones in a pot in one gallon of water, add a spoonful of salt, one onion, one carrot, one stalk of celery, one-half stalk of leek, and a bouquet garni. Bring to a boil, skim well, and then simmer until the fowl is done. Then take out the fowl and cut the white meat in small squares. Strain the broth. Heat in a casserole four ounces of butter, add one-half cup of rice and two and one-half ounces of flour. When heated through add the broth, stir well, and let it simmer slowly. When once boiling be careful that the rice does not stick to the bottom and burn. Also be careful when stirring that you do not break the rice. Taste, season with salt and a little Cayenne pepper; and when the rice is soft thicken the soup with the yolks of four eggs mixed with a cup of cream and a very little grated nutmeg. Do not let the soup boil after adding the thickening. Fresh raspberries and Cantaloupe and watermelon, surprise strawberries with cream Shirred eggs, Caroli Calf's liver and bacon Veal kidneys saute, au Madere Rolls Mashed potatoes Coffee Salade Bresilienne Camembert cheese with crackers Coffee Consomme brunoise and vermicelli Pickles. Radishes Planked black bass Cucumber salad Deviled chickens' legs with Virginia ham Spinach with cream Egg plant, Sicilienne French pastry Demi tasse Cantaloupe and watermelon, surprise. Cut out with a round Parisian spoon equal parts of cantaloupe and watermelon. Mix, and serve in grapefruit supreme glasses. Serve salt, pepper and powdered sugar separate. Eggs, Caroli. Place in a buttered shirred egg dish one slice of smoked beef tongue, break two eggs on top, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with grated cheese, put small bits of butter on top, and bake in oven until brown. Consomme brunoise and vermicelli. One quart of consomme brunoise mixed with one pint of consomme vermicelli. Serve grated cheese separate. Planked black bass. Season a whole black bass with salt and pepper, and lay on a buttered plank. Put a little butter on top of the fish, and set in oven to bake. When the fish is done make a border around the edge of the plank with potato croquette preparation, using a pastry bag with a star tube to squeeze the potato through. Then set back in oven and cook until the border is brown. Pour two spoonfuls of maitre d'hotel butter over the fish, and garnish with parsley in branches and quartered lemons. Deviled chickens' legs and Virginia ham. Use the legs from soup hens or roasted chickens. Spread with a mixture of half English and half French mustard, roll in bread crumbs, sprinkle with olive oil, broil, and place on a platter. Broil one slice of Virginia ham for each person, and lay on top of the chickens' legs. Pour tomato sauce around them. Egg plant, Sicilienne. Peel an egg plant and cut in thin slices. Mix in a bowl two cups of grated cheese, one egg, half a cup of very thick cream, a little chopped chives, salt and a little Cayenne pepper. Spread on a slice of egg plant, and lay another slice on top, in the form of a sandwich. ' Roll in flour, then in beaten eggs, and finally in bread crumbs. Fry in very hot swimming butter, and serve on folded napkin.