Frogs' legs, sauté à sec. To have the best flavor frogs should be killed just before cooking. Remove the skins and cut off the hind legs, salt and pepper them and roll in flour. Sauté one dozen frogs' legs in three ounces of hot butter in a frying pan, for a few minutes over a good fire. Then add a chopped shallot and let simmer for a few minutes. The legs should then be crisp. Serve on a platter with chopped parsley and lemon.
Roast sirloin of beef, Porte Maillot. Roast the sirloin, serve with sauce Madère, garnish with small French carrots, celery braisé, lettuce braisé and château potatoes.
Lettuce braisé. Wash four heads of large romaine lettuce in cold water, parboil in salt water, cool, and squeeze dry with the hands. Cut each head in four lengthwise, remove the stem, season with salt and pepper, and fold so both ends come together. Place a piece of pigskin in the bottom of a buttered pan, put the lettuce on top, and add a sliced onion, one carrot and a bay leaf. Cover with buttered manilla paper and allow to simmer for a while. Then add one cup of stock, put in oven and cook until soft. Used for garnishing entrées, etc.
Biscuit glacé. Put in double boiler eight yolks of eggs, one-half pound of sugar, and one-half of a split vanilla bean. Cook until it thickens, stirring continually. Then remove from the fire and beat with an egg whip until cold and very light. Remove the vanilla bean, add one quart of whipped cream and mix lightly. Put in fancy paper cases or fancy moulds, and freeze. Before serving decorate the tops with whipped cream, or any kind of ice cream or water ice.
Biscuit glacé, St. Francis. Fill some oblong paper cases with biscuit glacé foundation, put in ice box to freeze, decorate the tops with pistachio and strawberry ice cream before serving.
Biscuit glacé of strawberry, raspberry, coffee, pistachio, chocolate, apple, mapleine, pineapple, kirsch, peppermint, etc. Same as Biscuit Glacé, but decorate with the desired ice cream or water ice before serving.
DECEMBER 28
| BREAKFAST | LUNCHEON | ||||
| Broiled Finnan haddie | Canapé of sardines | ||||
| Baked potatoes | Boston baked beans | ||||
| Rolls | Brown bread | ||||
| Coffee | Coffee | ||||
| DINNER | |||||
| Seapuit oysters | |||||
| Cream of rice | |||||
| Salted pecans | |||||
| Fillet of flounder, Café Riche | |||||
| Spring lamb tenderloin, Thomas | |||||
| Roast chicken, au jus | |||||
| Hearts of romaine, egg dressing | |||||
| Strawberry parfait | |||||
| Macaroons | |||||
| Coffee | |||||
Broiled Finnan haddie. (Smoked haddock). Remove the bones, roll in oil and put on iron to broil. When done on both sides place on platter, cover with maître d'hôtel sauce or plain melted butter, garnish with parsley in branches and quartered lemons.