Eggs Bagration. Put on a platter some boiled rice, lay a fresh hard-boiled egg, cut in two, on top, and cover with the following sauce. Take any kind of cold meats that may be left over, such as lamb, beef, ham or tongue, and cut in small dices. Also a few mushrooms and truffles cut in the same way. Put in a casserole with a cup of cream sauce, season with salt and pepper, and bring to a boil.
Chicken hash on toast. Cut the breast of a boiled fowl in small squares. Put in a casserole one cup of cream sauce, one gill of thick cream and the chicken, season with salt and pepper, and cook together. Serve on a platter on dry toast.
Aiguillettes of sole, hotelière. Put aiguillettes of sole (long fillets) in a buttered pan, season with salt and pepper, cover with a glass of white wine, and cook for ten minutes. Then put the sole on a platter, and reduce the wine until nearly dry. Then add a pint of Béarnaise sauce and pour over the fish.
Mock turtle soup. Put in pan six pounds of cut veal bones, two sliced onions and one carrot, and four ounces of butter, and roast until brown. Then add one-quarter pound of flour and brown again. Change to a vessel, add two gallons of water, one can of tomatoes, a bouquet garni, some salt, a spoonful of black pepper berries, and two cloves, and boil for two hours. Add one pint of cooking sherry and boil again for thirty minutes. Skim, and remove the grease from the top, and strain through a cheesecloth. Then take one-quarter of a boiled calf's head and cut in small squares and put in a casserole with one glass of dry sherry wine, a little salt and Cayenne pepper, and boil for five minutes. Now add the strained soup to the calf's head. Before serving add three thin slices of smoked beef tongue cut in small diamond shapes, three chopped hard-boiled eggs, and a truffle cut in small squares.
Roast partridge. Tie a piece of fresh fat pork over the breast of the dressed partridge, season inside and out with salt and pepper, put in roasting pan with a piece of butter, and put in oven. Baste often so the meat will not become dry. It will require about thirty minutes to cook. Serve with lemon and watercress, and bread sauce separate.
Bread sauce, for game. To a pint of boiling milk add one whole onion, a bay leaf with two cloves stuck through it, and one and one-half cups of fresh bread crumbs, and boil for a few minutes. Then remove the onion and bay leaf and cloves, and season with salt and Cayenne pepper. Before serving add two ounces of sweet butter.
Bread crumbs, for game. Put in frying pan four ounces of sweet butter. When just warm add a cupful of fresh bread crumbs, and fry until golden yellow. Drain off the butter (which may be kept for roasting, etc.), and serve the crumbs in a small bowl. This is usually served in addition to bread sauce, with quail, pheasant, partridge, etc.
FEBRUARY 16
| BREAKFAST | LUNCHEON | ||||
| Hominy with cream | Crab salad | ||||
| Plain scrambled eggs | Mutton chops, Robinson | ||||
| Rolls | String beans | ||||
| English breakfast tea | Napoleon cake | ||||
| Coffee | |||||
| DINNER | |||||
| Pea soup | |||||
| Radishes | |||||
| Broiled shad, maître d'hôtel | |||||
| Roast chicken, au jus | |||||
| Hot asparagus, Hollandaise | |||||
| Potato croquettes | |||||
| Watercress salad | |||||
| Peach Mona Lisa | |||||
| Assorted cakes | |||||
| Coffee | |||||