The Cook Makes Madeira Sauce (1909)
The manager of a large hotel, having prepared a banquet for a distinguished party, sends for the chef and gives him directions, among which is to prepare a Madeira sauce. We next see the chef coming up out of the cellar with three bottles of Madeira under each arm. As he enters the kitchen the three or four other cooks are electrified by the appearance of half a dozen bottles of wine and asks what they are for as they crowd around. The chef points to the menu and all laugh, with sidelong glances at the bottles, while the chief cook agrees that they will drink to the success of the sauce with one bottle. One by one the bottles are emptied, while the cooks become hilarious and their duties are neglected. The last bottle the chief cook seizes and says that must be used for the sauce, but the temptation is too strong and it also is emptied. The chef is now at a loss to prepare his sauce, but spies a bottle of Worcestershire sauce and gets an idea. He empties it in a saucepan, adds some red pepper and some other equally fiery condiments, helped by the other cooks, who by this time are scarcely able to stand. Meanwhile the diners are seated at the table and the waiters begin to bring on the dishes. A young lady tastes one of the dishes and puts her handkerchief to her mouth: others taste their dishes and get their mouths burned. General disorder. The manager is called and. picking up a dish, enters the kitchen and asks what it means. "This sauce is no good." "No good!" cries the inebriated cook: "call my cooking no good! Take that! And that!" as he dashes the contents of the dishes over the manager. The waiters rush in and a general mêlée follows, ending with the firemen being called and a stream of water being played on the drunken cooks to drive them from the kitchen.
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