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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Fish Fritters

Pick free from all bones a quantity of any kind of cold cooked fish and pound it in a mortar; take a small onion, peel and pound it with the fish; season to taste with salt and pepper, and add an equal bulk of mashed potatoes, mix well together and make all into a paste with beaten egg. Spread the paste out on a board, cut it into small pieces about three inches across and fry them in boiling lard to a light brown. Fold a napkin over a hot dish and pile the fritters on it. Garnish with fried parsley and serve with any kind of fish sauce.

Fish, Normandy Style Melt in a bakingdish five ounces of butter on the stove or in an oven; sift into it one dessertspoonful of chopped parsley, a very little grated nutmeg, a small quantity of salt and black pepper, a very little red pepper, and one tablespoonful of mushroom catsup; add five pounds of any kind of fish without skin or bone and cut in pieces about four inches long and an inch and a half wide. Pour in three tablespoonfuls of brandy and four tablespoonfuls of white wine, fit the cover on the dish, put a flour and water dough round the edge to keep the steam in and bake in a moderate oven. Serve very hot.

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