1911 Vintage Cookbook with Daily Menus
Written by Alexander Filippini who is noted to have been "formerly of Delmonico's" and author of The Table. The complete title of this vintage cook book is The International Cook Book: Over 3,300 Recipes gathered from all over the World, including many never before published in English. With Complete menus of the three meals for every day in the year.
Doubleday Page & Co., New York original publication date 1906. 1059 pages. With a tight beige cloth cover that has a color culinary paste -down across the top. Title embossed on cover in red and black.
Below is the menu featured for January 1st.
Breakfast
- Stewed Prunes
- Oatmeal and Cream
- Shirred Eggs with Tomato
- Fish Cakes
- Broiled Sirloin Steaks, Maitre d'Hotel
- French Fried Potatoes
- Wheat Cakes
Luncheon
- Stuffed Devilled Crabs
- Broiled Spring Chicken with Bacon
- Baked Sweet Potatoes
- Spaghetti Italienne
- French Pancakes with Jelly
Dinner
- Blue Point Oysters
- Celery en Suprise
- Olives
- Cream of Asparagus - Parisienne
- Striped Bass en Court Bouillon
- Potatoes, Hollandaise
- Mignons of Beef, Bordelaise
- Stuffed Tomatoes
- Sweetbreads Braises, Bearnaise
- Green Peas
- Punch, Lalla Rookh
- Punch Francaise
- Red Head Duck with Jelly
- Chicory Salad
- Peach Pudding
- Vanilla Ice Cream
I can't even begin to imagine how anyone ate that much over the course of a single day, never mind cooking it all!
