Celebrated Actor-Folks' Cookeries

Mary Pickford, Enrico Caruso, Lillian Russell and a hundred more stars of 1916 — each sharing the dish they actually cooked. The original celebrity cookbook.

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Ellen Mortimer — from Celebrated Actor-Folks' Cookeries (1916)

Alive Adres 1916

MUSHROOMS-OLIVE OLIVER

Melt three tablespoons of butter in a pan or chafing dish. Add pepper and salt and plenty of paprika.

When butter is melted add three-fourths of a pint of When it boils add carefully one pound of goodsized mushrooms that have been peeled and washed thoroughly with better part of stems removed. cream.

Let all simmer not longer than nine minutes. Remove from fire and add a heaping wine-glass of good sherry. Serve at once very hot.

This is simple, but very delicious.

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