Breakfast

Sliced Peaches and Cream (1828)

Cornmeal Mush (326)

Scrambled Eggs with Bacon, Country Style

Filet of Sole, Horly

Country Sausages Baked with Apples (834)

Rice Flannel Cakes (221)

2245. Scrambled Eggs With Bacon, Country Style

Cut a two-ounce piece lean raw bacon in very thin pieces, place in a sautoire with teaspoon melted butter and gently fry five minutes, stirring meanwhile. Carefully crack eight fresh eggs on the bacon, season with half teaspoon salt and two saltspoons pepper. Set in oven five minutes. Remove, then mix eggs and bacon well with a spoon. Dress on a deep hot dish and serve.

2246. Filet Of Sole, Horly

Carefully lift the filets from a fresh three-pound flounder. Skin and cut each filet in three equal slanting pieces. Season all over with half teaspoon salt and two saltspoons white pepper, then lightly turn in flour, dip in beaten egg and gently roll in bread crumbs, plunge in boiling fat and fry ten minutes. Drain well, sprinkle a little salt over, dress on a hot dish with folded napkin, decorate with six quarters lemon and a little parsley greens, and serve with a gill hot tomato sauce (No. 16) separately.

Luncheon

Chicken Broth (578)

Clams en Coquilles, Philadelphia

Goulash, Hongroise (263)

Creme au Caramel (480)

2247. Clams En Coquilles, Philadelphia

Plunge forty-eight small clams in boiling water,boil three minutes and drain on a sieve. Place in a saucepan six finely chopped shallots, half a chopped green pepper, a small stalk celery cut in small squares, and two ounces raw ham also cut in small pieces, with one ounce butter, and gently cook ten minutes, occasionally stirring meanwhile. Add two ounces flour, stir briskly while heating one minute, pour in two gills milk, one gill cream, half teaspoon salt, two saltspoons cayenne pepper and saltspoon grated nutmeg. Mix well until it comes to a boil, then boil fifteen minutes. Add clams with half teaspoon chopped chives, mix a little, cook one minute. Divide clams, etc., in six table shells, place in a tin, sprinkle a little grated Parmesan cheese over, arrange a few little bits butter on top, set in oven ten minutes, remove and serve.