Title:  Joe Tilden’s Recipes for Epicures

Author:  Joe Tilden

Release Date:  April 17, 2004 [EBook #12069]

Language:  English

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JOE TILDEN’S RECIPES FOR EPICURES

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1907

Introductory Note

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Major Joseph Tilden was in his time one of the most famous Bohemians and epicureans of the Pacific Coast.  Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of his devising so delicious.  He had given his recipes to but few, and those few his most intimate friends and fellow spirits.  One of the most favored of his old companions has given this complete collection of his recipes for publication.

San Francisco, May, 1907.

SOUPS AND CHOWDERS

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Onion Soup

Place six ounces of butter in a large saucepan over the fire, and stir into it four large white onions cut up, not sliced.  Stew this very slowly for one hour, stirring frequently to prevent its scorching.  Add salt, pepper, cayenne, and about one quart of stock, and cook one hour longer.  Then stir into the mixture one and a half cups of milk and simmer for a few minutes.  Have ready a soup tureen.  In it beat the yolks of four eggs with two tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese.  Stir the hot soup into this, beating until it thickens a little.  A slice of toasted French bread should be placed in each plate, and the soup poured over it.

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Palestine Soup

Slice two or three Jerusalem artichokes and place in two quarts of boiling water.  Cook for one and one-half hours.  Then rub the artichokes through a colander and add to them one pint of the water in which they were boiled.  Stir in two tablespoonfuls of flour rubbed into the same amount of butter.  Add two cups of milk and boil for ten minutes.  Season with salt and pepper and serve with croutons.

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Black Bean Soup

Soak over night one quart of black turtle beans in water to cover them.  In the morning strain and boil them in four quarts of water for one hour, skimming frequently.  Then put into the liquor two white onions sliced, two stalks of celery cut into bits, salt, pepper, cayenne, and one teaspoonful each of cloves and allspice.  Boil for three hours.  Remove from the stove and add enough stock to thin the mixture to the consistency of a cream soup.  Pour into it nearly a tumbler of sherry and add a thinly sliced lime.  Place over the fire to boil for five minutes.  Just before serving stir into the soup three hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped.  Force meat balls may be added.