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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Truffled Chicken

Bone a fat chicken and put it on a table with the fillets cut off the breasts of two other fowls; cut some large slits in them all and put pieces of pork cut into thin slips in the cuts. Chop into slices one quart of truffles and put them where they will show in the white meat when it is cut; sprinkle well with pepper, salt and powdered thyme and a little finely grated nutmeg, and put the pieces of the breasts in the thinnest parts of the fowl, draw the two sides together, sew them up into shapes as near the original as possible, wrap the fowl in a cloth, tie it round with a string and boil it in salted broth for two hours. Take it out, put it in a mould with a weight on top and let it cool. When perfectly cold remove the string and cloth, put it on a dish and cut it up in slices; or, it may be put into a mould and filled up with aspic jelly, or masked with liquefied butter.

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