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Dinners for Twelve

Menu #1

• Clear Soup (five pints)
• Fish (four or five pounds, baked, boiled, or escaloped)
• Bread, and Potatoes if you like
• Chicken Croquettes, or any kind of Patties
• Fillet of Beef, Larded (two and a half to three pounds), with Mushroom Sauce
• Potato Puffs
• Sweetbreads (six)
• Green Peas (two quarts, if fresh, or two cans of French peas)
• Lettuce Salad (French dressing; two large heads of lettuce)
• A Cold Pudding
• Ice Cream (one gallon)
• Cake
• Crackers
• Cheese
• Coffee

The cost of a dinner like this, when prepared at home, depends somewhat upon the market, but will rarely exceed twenty-five dollars.

Menu #2

• Oysters on a Block of Ice (two quarts)
• Consommé à la Royale (five pints)
• Baked Fish (five pounds), Hollandaise Sauce (double the rule)
• Cheese Soufflé (double the rule)
• Roast Chicken (nine to twelve pounds)
• Mashed Potatoes (twelve)
• Green Peas (two quarts or two cans)
• Celery
• Cranberry Jelly
• Oyster Patties (fourteen)
• Lettuce Salad (two heads of lettuce with French dressing)
• Water Crackers (a dozen and a half)
• Neufchatel Cheese (two packages)
• Orange Sherbet (three quarts)
• Frozen Cabinet Pudding (the rule given), Apricot Sauce
• Glacé Meringué (the rule given)
• Sponge Cake
• Fruit
• Coffee (the rule for filtered coffee)

Menu #3

• Potage à la Reine (five pints)
• Sardine Canapes (two dozen)
• Olives
• Roast Turkey (about eight pounds), Chestnut Stuffing and Sauce
• Macaroni à l'Italienne (twice the rule)
• Cranberry Jelly
• Plain Boiled Potatoes
• Lettuce Salad (two large heads)
• Custard Soufflé (twice the rule), Creamy Sauce
• Frozen Pudding (the rule given)
• Lemon Sherbet Cake
• Fruit
• Coffee (three pints of filtered)
• Crackers and Cheese

Menu #4

• Oyster Soup (two quarts)
• Smelts à la Tartare (three dozen)
• Chicken Vol-au-Vent (a large one)
• Rolled Rib Roast (about twelve pounds)
• Polish Sauce
• Grape Jelly
• Cauliflower, with Cream Sauce
• Potato Soufflé
• Rice Croquettes (two dozen)
• Larded Grouse with Bread Sauce (three grouse)
• Potatoes, a la Parisienne
• Dressed Celery (two heads)
• Royal Diplomatic Pudding (the rule given)
• Raspberry Sherbet (three quarts)
• Vanilla Ice Cream (three quarts)
• Cake
• Fruit
• Coffee (three pints of the filtered)
• Crackers and Cheese

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Source

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book.

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