Poor Man's Stroganoff, from the Frederick & Nelson lunchroom counter

Department store tea room recipes are still remembered fondly and asked for often. Frederick & Nelson, once Seattle's premier department store, was taken over by Marshall Field exec William Street in 1938 and finally went out of business in 1992. This simple stroganoff recipe surfaced via a former F&N employee. It was given to LostRecipesFound by Mabel Block who operated a little restaurant in Issaquah, WA, from 1958 to 1962. "We had a cook there that had worked at Frederick & Nelson's lunch counter in Bellevue. She brought that recipe with her," recalls Mabel. "We sampled it with our regulars and they liked it so much it became our specialty. People came all the way from Bellevue just to have that dish." Mabel kept it going until 1962 when a buyer expecting business to boom during the Seattle World's Fair, bought the cafe.