The Hotel St. Francis cook book

Icing or frosting, for glace cakes, eclairs, etc. One and one-half pounds of icing sugar, a pony of water or fruit juice, and the whites of two eggs. Mix and heat over slow fire, stirring continually with a wooden spoon. Do not let it boil. Flavor according to desire. For chocolate frosting add a little melted cocoa. Cream puffs. One-quarter pound of butter, one cup of water, one cup of milk, four eggs and one-quarter pound of flour. Put the butter, water and milk into a sauce pan and boil. Remove from the fire and add the flour, mixing with a wooden spoon. Then add the eggs one by one, beating well. Dress them on a buttered pan, and about two inches in diameter. Moisten the tops with eggs, and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Bake in a medium oven for about twenty minutes, then slit one edge and fill with sweet whipped cream. Dust some powdered sugar on top and serve. Chocolate eclairs. Same dough as for cream puffs. Dress them on a buttered pan in the shape of lady fingers, and bake in hot oven. Split at one side and fill with sweet whipped cream. Coat with chocolate icing. Pastry cream may be used instead of whipped cream, if desired. Pastry cream. Pint of milk, one-half of a vanilla bean, one-quarter pound of sugar, three eggs and one ounce of corn starch. Mix the eggs, sugar and corn starch. Boil the vanilla bean and add to the eggs. Mix well with a whip, put on fire and keep stirring until thick. When cold use it for filling small cakes, cream puffs, eclairs, etc. Preserved figs California oysters on half shell Wheat cakes Puree of lentils Rolls Stuffed roasted chicken Coffee String beans Duchess potatoes Cold French asparagus, LUNCHEON French dressing Anchovy salad Almond cake Poached eggs, sans gene Coffee Navarin of lamb, printanier Baba au rhum SUPPER Demi tasse Salade Olga Wheat cakes. Sift together into a bowl one-half pound of flour and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Add one ounce of sugar, one ounce of melted butter, one egg and a little milk. Mix all into a medium thick batter. Bake on a hot griddle iron. Serve honey or maple syrup, and sweet butter separate. Breakfast rolls. Three pounds of flour, one ounce of salt, one ounce of sugar and two ounces of yeast. Scald the milk and pour it over the sugar, salt and butter. Melt the yeast in luke-warm water, mix with the milk, etc., and add half of the flour. Beat well, cover, and let raise. Then add the remainder of the flour and let it raise again until it is twice its original volume. Put on table, roll in shape desired, place on pan, and let raise again. Brush the top with melted butter, and bake. Anchovy salad. Put sliced lettuce on the bottom of a pickle dish. Place fillets of anchovies crosswise over the lettuce. Garnish all around with chopped eggs, beets and parsley. Season with French dressing. Poached eggs, sans gene. Place a hot poached egg on a heart of artichoke, cover with a slice of parboiled beef marrow. Serve with sauce Bordelaise.