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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Cornstarch Cakes

Mix in a basin one breakfast cupful of cornstarch, one-half breakfast cupful of wheat-flour, one tablespoonful of sugar and two saltspoonfuls of salt. Dissolve one teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in one-half teacupful of boiling water and pour it into three teacupfuls of sour milk; mix it with the dry ingredients and add two eggs well beaten. After buttering some small cake-tins, pour the preparation into the depth of about one and one-half inches and then bake for twenty-five minutes in a quick oven.

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