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

Robert Hilliard

RAGOUT a la Deutch Stew one can tomatoes with two chopped onions; add a few chopped cepes, chalots, mushrooms and green peppers, a glass of…

Anna Held

Sketch by Gibbs Mason COUPE ANN ARBOR

Ralph Herz

THOUSAND ISLAND SALAD DRESSING

Lee Harrison

LILLSALLAD (Salt Herring Salad) Remove the skin and bone from a half dozen salt herring. Cut up in small squares and add to it an equal…

Martha Hedman

CHICKEN PASTIES Use one cupful of chopped mushrooms to four cupfuls of cold, minced chicken. Add one and a half cups of white sauce, the…

Gertrude Hoffman

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Harry Houdini

BREAD-AND-BUTTER CUSTARD Three large pieces white bread-buttered. Cut in quarters, and line an enamel pie dish with same.

Gerda Holmes

13/4 cups flour WAFFLES

Alice Harris

VIRGINIA 3 heads cabbage 1½ peck ripe tomatoes 14 peck green tomatoes 1½ dozen onions 1 tablespoon black pepper seed 1½ dozen red and green

Harrison Hunter

SPANISH RICE WO tablespoons of bacon fat in a largesized frying pan; cut up two onions and fry until brown, add one cup of rice and stir…

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