The Hotel St. Francis cook book

American gugelhoff. One pound of flour, one-half pint of milk, one ounce of yeast, four eggs, three ounces of sugar, six ounces of butter, two ounces of Malaga raisins, and the rind of a lemon and a pinch of mace for flavoring. Have the milk luke-warm, dissolve the yeast in it, add all the other ingredients, and mix to a batter. Put into a basin, cover with a cloth, and allow to raise for about two hours. Butter the moulds well, sprinkle them with coarse chopped almonds, fill the moulds half full with the raised dough, allow to raise until the moulds are about three-quarters full, and then bake in a medium oven. Stewed prunes Canape Eldorado Boiled eggs Poached eggs, Taft Dry toast Beef steak, Jusienne Coffee Potatoes au gratin Chicory salad Banana pie Demi tasse Consomme Frascati Chow chow Boiled brook trout, sauce mousseline Potatoes, Nature Lamb chops, Beaugency Peas and carrots in cream Chiffonnade salad Pears a la Piedmont Alsatian wafers Coffee Canape Eldorado. Spread a leaf of lettuce with some mayonnaise sauce, lay a boiled artichoke bottom on top, and three small Mexican tomatoes stuffed with anchovies on top of the artichoke. Decorate with anchovy butter. Poached eggs, Taft. Fry four slices of egg plant, lay a slice of boiled Virginia ham on top of each, a poached egg on top of each slice of ham, and cover with Hollandaise sauce. Cut a "T" out of a truffle and lay on top of the sauce. Beef steak, Jusienne. Season four small steaks with salt and pepper, and fry in saute pan with melted butter. When done place on a platter and garnish with lettuce braise, peas in butter, and onions glaces. Pour sauce Madere over the steaks. Consomme Frascati. Cut two potatoes in small dices, and parboil for five minutes in salted water. Drain off the water, add six heads of peeled fresh mushrooms sliced very thin, and two quarts of consomme. Cook slowly until the potatoes are soft. Banana pie. Mash enough bananas to make two cupfuls of pulp. Force through a sieve with a potato masher, add one-half cup of sugar, two crushed and sifted soda crackers, one-half cup of milk, the juice and rind of a lemon, two spoonfuls of molasses, a pinch of powdered cinnamon, and two eggs. Mix well together, and bake in an open pie, in the same manner as a pumpkin pie. Lamb chops, Beaugency. Broil the chops, place on a platter, and garnish with fresh artichoke bottoms filled with parboiled beef marrow cut in small dices. Serve sauce Choron separate. Pears, Piedmont. Peel and remove the cores from a dozen nice pears, and stew them in syrup. Fill the centers with pear marmalade and chopped candied fruits. Cook some rice in the same manner as for rice croquettes. Dress a layer of the rice on a platter, place the pears on top, and serve with wine sauce. (See index for Italian wine sauce). Baked apples with cream Griddle cakes, maple syrup Crescents English breakfast tea Cantaloupe Scrambled eggs, Bullit Broiled honeycomb tripe Saute potatoes Field salad Roquefort cheese with crackers Coffee WEDDING DINNER