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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20 players in this part of Actor-Folks' Cookeries.

Blanche Bates

ONE NIGHT STAND SALAD Sardines broken up, tomatoes peeled and quartered, one head of lettuce, carefully and deftly mixed with a French…

Ethel Barrymore

RABBIT SAUTÉ Have a rabbit cut in pieces. Put meat and a few small onions in a saucepan with a little hot butter and lard. Sprinkle with a…

Edmund Breese

CHICKEN A LA BREESE 1 cup cooked chicken cut in strips 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 3 cold boiled potatoes cut 1½ cups scalded…

Donald Brian

EGGS A LA ESPAGNOLE Cook a clove of garlic finely chopped, and one-half a green pepper finely chopped, in two tablespoons olive oil, five…

Sam Bernard

SWEET PICKLE CHERRY CONSERVE 1 qt. pitted cherries 1 qt. red raspberries 1 qt. currants 2 qts. sugar 2 oranges, pulp and juice 1 lemon with…

Arthur Byron

PERFECT COFFEE Use an ordinary coffee pot. Ten-cent one is good as any other.

Richard Bennett

Rice potatoes and mix with white Put in buttered baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese, cover with buttered crumbs and bake over a medium flame until crumbs are brown.

France Bendtsen

2 pounds lean beef cut from round Grated rind ½ lemon 1 tablespoon finely chopped 1 egg parsley 1/2 teaspoon onion juice 2 tablespoons melted butter Few gratings nutmeg…

Barney Bernard

Add three eggs, a little water and salt and pepper to taste. Chop all together, dip into cracker dust and mould into balls.

Alice Brady

CUT BEANS, DUTCH STYLE Strip the beans and cut into strips. Place in a sauté pan and add to one pound of beans two ounces of butter, a…

King Baggot

JELLIED ¼ box Knox gelatine 1/4 cup cold water ½ cup boiling water 3/4 cup sugar

Francis X Bushman

"Wilt stay and sup with us tonight?" SNAILS A LA MOUQUIN

Theda Bara

Recipe with courtesy of Mr. Fred Keiner. POPOVERS

Bessie Barriscale

GERMAN 4 cupfuls diced carrots 2 medium-sized onions 1 cupful cream 3 tablespoonfuls butter

Mary Boland

Roll oysters lightly in bread crumbs; lay in finewire broiler, baste with butter and brown them lightly over very hot fire. Season with salt and pepper and serve on…

Nella Bergen

ANGEL PUDDING 1 pound English walnuts shelled 1/4 cups powdered sugar Whites of five eggs 3 teaspoons Royal baking powder 9 ounces of dates…

Valerie Bergere

Break walnuts fine and cut dates in fine pieces. Add sugar and last of all, beaten whites of eggs.

Maria Barrientos

6 pounds plums 5 pounds sugar PLUM CONSERVE

Eugenie Blair

GRILL-EUGENIE BLAIR One large sweet potato cut in half, lengthwise. Take out enough of the potato to put in two large oysters (on one…

Marjorie Bentley

2 cups samp 1 cup beans 4 pounds corned beef 1½ pound salt pork 5 quarts cold water Wash and soak samp and beans over night. Put on to cook with the five quarts of water…

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