The Hotel St. Francis cook book

Fillet of sole, Turbigo. Cut the fillets from a sole, and remove the skin. Spread with fish force meat, (see fish dumplings), fold in half, place in buttered saute pan, season with salt and pepper, add one-half glass of white wine, and boil. When done remove the fish to a platter; add to the gravy in the pan one cup of white wine sauce, boil for ten minutes, and strain. Cut the tail of a lobster in slices, heat them and lay on top of fillets and cover with the sauce. Carrots in butter. Wash and peel three dozen small French carrots, and boil in two quarts of salted water. When done drain off the water, add two ounces of sweet butter, and simmer for two minutes. Sprinkle with a little chopped parsley. Fried cream. One quart of milk, one-half pound of sugar, the yolks of eight eggs, four ounces of flour, and one-half of a vanilla bean. Boil the milk with the vanilla bean. Mix the sugar, flour and the yolks of the eggs, and then pour into the boiling milk. Continue cooking, stirring all the time until stiff. Then pour into a flat pan in a layer about three-quarters of an inch thick, allow to become cold, and then cut into two inch squares. Roll in flour, then in beaten egg, and finally in cake, macaroon, or bread crumbs, and fry in swimming lard until brown. Serve dusted with powdered sugar, or with a lump of sugar covered with brandy, and burning. Beef tongue, Parisian style. Wash a fresh beef tongue, put in a pot, cover with hot water, add a cup of white wine vinegar, two carrots, two onions, a bay leaf, a few cloves, a crushed garlic clove, some thyme, the green tops of a bunch of celery, and some salt. Simmer slowly for three hours, or until when pricked with a fork it has the consistency of jelly. Then peel and trim. Reduce the broth, and make a brown gravy, adding a glass of Madeira wine. In another pan boil a dozen or so small onions. Glace and simmer them in plenty of butter, but do not brown, add a can of mushroom heads and quarter of a pound of salt pork that has been boiled and diced, and simmer again. Add two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley and a wine glass of sherry, then mix with the brown Madeira sauce. Put the whole tongue on a platter, and pour the sauce over it. Stewed rhubarb Grapefruit with maraschino Boiled eggs Fried tomcods, Tartar Rolls Broiled honeycomb tripe Coffee Celery root, field and beet salad Lyonnaise potatoes Cherry tart Coffee Potage Lamballe Radishes Bass, Dijonaise Roast chicken Fonds d'artichauts, Feypell Julienne potatoes Sliced tomatoes, French dressing Vanilla ice cream Cakes Coffee Bass, Dijonaise. Put four fillets of bass in a buttered pan, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with two finely-chopped shallots, add one-half cup of water, cover, and put in hot oven for fifteen minutes. Then place the fillets on a platter, and reduce the broth until nearly dry, add one spoonful of French mustard and two cups of cream sauce, and boil for two minutes. Add some chopped chives, and pour over the fish.