Fillet of sole, cardinal. In a buttered sauté pan put four fillets of sole, season with salt and white pepper, add one-half glass of white wine, cover with buttered paper, and bake in oven for ten minutes. Remove the fillets to a platter, and to the sauté pan add one pint of white wine sauce. Bring to a boil and then stir in two tablespoonfuls of lobster butter. When the butter is melted strain the sauce over the fish.
Roast shad and roe, à l'Américaine. Secure from the fish dealer a fresh shad with the roe inside, and without the belly cut open. In a roasting pan put four ounces of butter, one chopped onion, a carrot cut in very small dices, a spoonful of chopped parsley, and a bay leaf, clove, and a garlic clove, all chopped fine. Place the fish on top, season well with salt and pepper, put a few bits of butter on top of the fish, and place in the oven. Baste continually, and if the pan becomes too dry, add one-half glass of white wine, baste, and then add one-half glass of water. Bake for about an hour in a moderate oven. When done place on a platter and pour the sauce in the pan over the fish. A spoonful of Worcestershire sauce, and the juice of a lemon or two, may be added to the sauce if desired.
English rice pudding. Three pints of milk, one-quarter of a pound of rice, one-quarter of a pound of sugar, and one-half of a vanilla bean split in two. Boil the milk with the vanilla bean, then add the washed rice, and cook for about forty minutes. Add the sugar and boil again for a few minutes, turning carefully with a wooden spoon, so it will not stick to the bottom. Then remove from the fire, add one cup of thick cream, and pour into deep china vegetable dishes, and bake in a hot oven until brown on top. Use one large dish for baking, or individual ones, as desired.
APRIL 25
| BREAKFAST | LUNCHEON | ||||
| Grapefruit à la Rose | Consommé in cup | ||||
| Boiled eggs | Fillets of sand dabs, sauce verte | ||||
| Dry toast | Leberkloese (liver dumplings) | ||||
| Coffee | Sauerkraut | ||||
| Boiled potatoes | |||||
| Escarole and chicory salad | |||||
| Port de Salut cheese and crackers | |||||
| Coffee | |||||
| DINNER | |||||
| Cream of potatoes | |||||
| Pickles | |||||
| Tenderloin steak, à la Polonaise | |||||
| Spinach with eggs | |||||
| Mashed potatoes | |||||
| Lettuce and alligator pear salad | |||||
| Orange custard pie | |||||
| Coffee | |||||
Grapefruit à la Rose. Peel and slice two grapefruit and put in salad bowl. Mix one-half cup of fresh strawberries and one-half cup of fresh raspberries and two spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and strain through a fine colander. Have all very cold. Put the grapefruit in glasses and pour the fresh fruit sauce over it.
Fillet of sand dabs, fried. Cut the fillets from four sand dabs, season with salt and pepper, roll in flour, then in beaten eggs, then in bread crumbs, and fry in hot swimming lard. When done serve on napkins with fried parsley and quartered lemons. Serve sauce Tartar or sauce verte separate.
Sauce verte. In a mortar mash equal parts of chives, chervil and parsley. When very fine add some mayonnaise sauce, mix well, and strain through a cheese cloth. Season well before serving.
Leberkloese (liver dumplings). Remove the skin from a calf's liver of good size, and scrape well with a fork to remove all the nerves. Then put in a bowl and add four cups of fresh bread crumbs, three eggs, a little salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, chopped parsley, chopped garlic, one chopped onion and four chopped shallots fried in butter, a teaspoonful of chopped thyme leaves, and one bay leaf chopped almost to a powder. Mix all well together, and drop with a soupspoon into boiling bouillon or salt water, and cook slowly for about twelve minutes. Place on a platter with a little brown gravy; or, in a pan put three ounces of butter with one cup of bread cut in small squares and fry until nice and yellow, then pour over the dumplings, and sprinkle chopped parsley on top.