The Cook Book by “Oscar” of the Waldorf

Three thousand recipes from the maitre d'hotel of the Waldorf — the hotel kitchen that taught Gilded Age America how to dine, from beef tea to watermelon with champagne.

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Boiled Chicken with Rice

Singe, draw and truss a chicken and boil it for fifteen minutes; add one onion stuck with three cloves, one saltspoonful each of salt and pepper and a bunch of sweet herbs. Take out the onions and herb and put in a breakfast cupful of well washed rice and boil until the rice is tender; dish the fowl, add a teacupful of gravy or stock to the liquor in which it was boiled; pour the gravy and rice around the fowl, and serve.

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