Chapter IV: Part 4

To three cups of hot riced potatoes add three tablespoons butter, one teaspoon salt, the beaten yolks of three eggs and enough hot milk to allow the mixture to pass readily through the pastry-bag with rose tube attached. Shape as roses on a buttered tin sheet, brush over lightly with egg slightly beaten and diluted with one tablespoon milk, and brown delicately in oven.

TO SHAPE ROSES

Fill pastry bag with potato mixture. Hold the bag upright with tube pointing downward. Guide tube with left hand and press out potato with the right, making a circular motion. When roses are the desired size press the tube gently into mixture and withdraw it quickly to stop the flow and give the pyramid a pointed finish. Sweet potatoes may be prepared in the same manner.

CORN FRITTERS

(For recipe see Page 63.)

CAULIFLOWER À LA BÉCHAMEL

Select a firm, white cauliflower, remove leaves and cut off the stalk. Soak (head down) in cold salt water to cover. Drain and cook (head up) in boiling salted water to cover until tender but not broken apart. Drain well and dispose on shallow serving dish. Pour over one and one-half cups Béchamel Sauce (see Page 85). Sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

DRESSED HEAD LETTUCE

Select a large, firm head of lettuce. Remove all wilted leaves. Separate the heart leaves sufficiently to wash them thoroughly. Drain, arrange leaves on shallow serving plate, keeping them in their original shape if possible. Sprinkle over all finely shredded red and green prepared peppers. (To prepare peppers, plunge them into boiling water, then quickly rub off the glazed outer skin, drop peppers into cold water until crisp. Cut a slice from the stem ends, remove seeds and veins, then cut in thread like rings.) Serve with French Dressing, to which add one tablespoon Roquefort cheese. Blend well before pouring over Salad.

BLACKBERRY ROLY-POLY

2 cups blackberries.
1/4 cup water.
1 cup sugar.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
2 cups pastry flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
4 tablespoons Cottolene.
Yolk 1 egg.
White 1 egg slightly beaten.
Granulated sugar.
Ground cloves.

PROCESS: Cook blackberries in water and salt until berries are soft. Rub through a sieve and add sugar to pulp; return to range and cook until mixture thickens, stirring occasionally. Sift flour with baking powder and salt, work in Cottolene with tips of fingers, and mix to a soft dough with yolk of egg mixed with one-half cup of milk. Turn onto a floured board, knead slightly and roll out in a rectangular sheet one-fourth inch thick. Divide this into four pieces, longer than wide. Spread each with the blackberry sauce and roll up like jelly roll; wet the edges, press lightly to prevent unrolling. Lay on buttered sheet and brush tops with white of egg, sprinkle with sugar and a few grains cloves. Bake twenty-five minutes in a hot oven. Serve hot with remaining sauce kept hot over hot water or with

CREAMY SAUCE

1/4 cup butter.
2/3 cup powdered sugar.
2 tablespoons milk.
2 tablespoons Sherry wine.
Few grains nutmeg.

PROCESS: Cream butter, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly, add milk and wine very slowly, continue beating. Add a sprinkle of nutmeg. To avoid having sauce curdle, milk and wine must be added drop by drop.

[Sidenote: _August_

_Third Sunday_]

Menu

CANTALOUPE À LA MODE

CONSOMMÉ AU RIZ--CHEESE BALLS

SPICED BEEF--WHIPPED CREAM HORSERADISH SAUCE

POTATOES ITALIAN STYLE--SUCCOTASH

PEAR SALAD

PEACH COTTAGE PUDDING WITH CREAM

COFFEE

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CANTALOUPE À LA MODE

Wash small ripe cantaloupe (Rockyfords) with a brush, and chill thoroughly. Cut in halves lengthwise and fill with Pineapple or Raspberry Ice. Arrange on a bed of cracked ice; serve one-half melon to each guest.

RASPBERRY ICE

4 cups water.
1-3/4 cups sugar.
2 cups raspberry pulp.
1/4 cup orange juice.
2 tablespoons lemon juice.

PROCESS: Make a syrup by boiling water and sugar twenty minutes. Mash berries and rub through a fine sieve, add orange and lemon juice, combine with syrup, strain and freeze. Shape with a cone mold and place in seed cavities of halves of cantaloupe.

CONSOMMÉ AU RIZ

8 cups consommé.
1/4 cup washed rice.
6 cups cold water.
1/2 tablespoon salt.

PROCESS: Add salt to boiling water, then add rice slowly and let cook until rice is soft; drain. Pour over rice six cups cold water to separate kernels. Add rice to hot consommé and serve with Cheese Balls.

CHEESE BALLS

4 tablespoons butter.
3/4 cup flour.
1/2 cup water.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
Few grains cayenne.
3 eggs.
1/4 cup grated Edam Cheese.
Cottolene.

PROCESS: Melt butter in a sauce-pan, add water, cook one minute; add flour mixed with seasonings. Cook until mixture leaves the sides of pan, stirring constantly. Cool slightly, add unbeaten eggs one at a time, add cheese. Mix well and drop from tip of teaspoon into deep hot Cottolene. Drain and serve immediately.

SPICED BEEF

Wash and wipe six pounds of beef cut from the flank. Cover with boiling water; bring to the boiling point and skim. Reduce heat and simmer until meat is tender (time required about five hours), adding the last hour of cooking one-half cup each of carrot, onion and celery cut in dice, two sprays each of parsley and thyme, one of marjoram, six cloves, one-half teaspoon peppercorns and one tablespoon salt. Remove meat and reduce liquor to one and one-half cups; strain. Shred the meat, mix with the liquor and press in a granite, brick-shaped bread pan, packing solidly. When thoroughly cold, serve, cut in thin slices, with Whipped Cream Horseradish Sauce (for recipe see Page 120).

POTATOES A L'ITALIENNE

To two cups hot riced potatoes, add one tablespoon finely chopped chives, one egg yolk well beaten, whites four eggs beaten until stiff, one-half cup grated cheese. Season with salt, pepper and a few grains cayenne. Pile lightly in a well-greased baking dish and bake from twenty-five to thirty minutes. Turn dish around several times carefully that mixture may puff evenly.

SUCCOTASH

Shell lima beans, wash and cover with boiling water; heat to boiling point and drain; throw away water and rinse beans, drain again. Cook in boiling, salted water until tender. Drain and add to an equal quantity of hot boiled corn cut from the cob. Season with salt, pepper and butter. Reheat before serving.

PEAR SALAD

Wipe, pare and remove the cores from the desired number of ripe (early) pears. Cut in eighths lengthwise. Arrange on beds of crisp cress, or lettuce heart leaves. Bestrew with prepared red peppers cut in very fine rings. Serve with French Dressing, using lemon juice in place of vinegar. Canned red peppers may be used when fresh peppers are not available. To prepare peppers, plunge them into boiling water for a moment, cut a slice from stem ends, remove seeds and veins, cover with cold water until crisp; drain dry, and cut in fine shreds.

PEACH COTTAGE PUDDING

1/4 cup Cottolene.
1 cup sugar.
1 egg.
1/2 cup milk.
2 cups pastry flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
1/4 teaspoon almond extract.
Fresh peaches sliced.

PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly; add egg well beaten. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt; add to first mixture alternately with milk. Add extract and beat thoroughly. Turn into a well-greased shallow pan, and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Cut in three-inch squares; pile thinly-sliced fresh peaches on top of each portion, sprinkle thickly with powdered sugar and serve with rich cream.

[Sidenote: _August_

_Fourth Sunday_]

Menu

BOILED HALIBUT (COLD)--VINAIGRETTE SAUCE

CUCUMBER BASKETS RADISHES

FRENCH FRIED POTATOES--BOILED SWEET CORN

FROZEN APRICOTS--SULTANA CAKE

DEMI TASSE

ICED TEA

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BOILED HALIBUT--COLD

Have a piece of Halibut cut weighing two and one-half pounds. Tie in a square of cheese cloth (to prevent scum from settling on the flesh of fish). Cover with boiling water to which add salt and vinegar or lemon juice; the acid preserves the whiteness of the fish. Boil until the flesh leaves the bones (about thirty-five minutes). Drain and remove from cheese cloth. Pick out bones and remove skin. Place in a vessel that will preserve the shape of fish, chill and dispose fish on a cold serving platter on a bed of garden cress. Set a cucumber basket at intervals (one for each guest), and serve with

VINAIGRETTE SAUCE

1 teaspoon salt.
1/8 teaspoon black pepper.
Few grains cayenne.
1 tablespoon Tarragon vinegar.
2 tablespoons Malt vinegar.
1/2 cup Olive oil.
1 tablespoon chopped olives.
1 tablespoon chopped pickle.
1 tablespoon chopped green or red pepper.
1 teaspoon chopped parsley.
1-1/2 teaspoons chopped chives.

PROCESS: Put salt, pepper and cayenne in bowl, add oil slowly stirring constantly, add remaining ingredients and blend thoroughly. Chill and pour over Boiled Halibut.

CUCUMBER BASKETS

Select long cucumbers of uniform thickness (three cucumbers will make six baskets), cut a slice from both the stem and blossom ends, pare and cut in halves crosswise; cut from each piece a section so as to form a handle crosswise of cucumber. Scoop out the soft pulp and seeds, brush each basket over lightly with olive oil and sprinkle with finely chopped garden cress or parsley. Fill the baskets with Mayonnaise Dressing or Sauce Tartare (see recipe Page 84). Chill and serve in nests of peppergrass or lettuce heart leaves.

FRENCH FRIED POTATOES

Wash and pare medium-sized potatoes, cut them lengthwise in eight pieces of a uniform size. Soak them in cold water two hours, changing the water several times. Drain from water and dry between towels. Then fry a few at a time in deep hot Cottolene. Drain on brown paper and sprinkle with salt. This is an easy method of preparing potatoes in hot weather. The potatoes may be prepared beforehand and the process of cooking is both simply and quickly done. Be sure the Cottolene is not too hot as the potatoes must be cooked through, as well as browned.

BOILED SWEET CORN

Have the water boiling. Remove the husks and silk from the corn and drop them at once into the boiling water; bring water quickly to boiling point and let boil rapidly five to ten minutes (depending somewhat on age of corn). Drain from water and arrange in a napkin-covered platter; serve at once.

FROZEN APRICOTS

Drain the apricots from the liquor in the can. Reserve liquor and cut fruit in one-fourth inch cubes. To the syrup add sufficient water to make four cups; add one cup orange juice; add one and one-half cups sugar. Cook five minutes, strain and pour over apricots; chill and freeze. Fresh apricots or peaches may be used when in season. The fresh fruit should be cooked until clear, in a syrup made of four cups of water and two cups sugar. When this mixture is frozen to a mush, two cups of Whipped Cream may be added, if one desires a richer dessert.

SULTANA CAKE

1/3 cup Cottolene.
1 cup sugar.
2 eggs.
1 egg yolk.
1 cup Sultana raisins.
1/2 cup milk.
2-1/4 cups pastry flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
1/2 teaspoon mace.

PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly; add well-beaten eggs and yolk. Mix and sift flour (except one tablespoon), baking powder and salt and mace; add to first mixture alternately with milk. Dredge raisins with tablespoon flour, add to mixture and beat thoroughly. Turn mixture into a well-greased, brick-shaped bread pan and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. Frost if desired.

[Sidenote: _August_

_Fifth Sunday_]

Menu

TOMATO CANAPÉ

COLD VEAL LOAF--WHIPPED CREAM HORSERADISH SAUCE

CREAMED NEW POTATOES STEAMED SUMMER SQUASH

LETTUCE, GARDEN CRESS AND ONION SALAD

SLICED PEACHES--CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

ICED COFFEE LEMONADE

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TOMATO CANAPÉ

Fry circles of bread, cut one-third inch thick, in deep hot Cottolene. Sauté slices of tomato in hot butter. Drain both on brown paper. Cover each circle of bread with a slice of tomato, sprinkle with salt, pepper and a few grains cayenne. Garnish each with a slice of cucumber and the white of "hard boiled" eggs, cut in the shape of petals to represent field daisies.

COLD VEAL LOAF

Have the bone of a knuckle of veal sawed in three pieces at the market. Wash, wipe, and put in kettle with two pounds of lean veal, one onion sliced, six slices carrot, one blade celery broken in pieces, one spray parsley and one-half teaspoon peppercorns; cover with boiling water and cook slowly until meat is tender. Drain; chop meat finely and season well with salt, pepper and a few grains cayenne. Reduce liquor to one cup, strain and reserve. Garnish the bottom of a granite, brick-shaped bread pan with the white of "hard boiled" egg cut to resemble three daisies; put a dot of the yolk in center of each and arrange sprays of parsley between each daisy. Put a layer of meat, then a layer of thinly sliced eggs sprinkled with parsley, finely chopped. Cover with remaining meat; pour over strained liquor, press and let stand until cold and jellied. Remove to serving platter, garnish with parsley and small round radishes cut to resemble tulips. Slice thinly and serve with

WHIPPED CREAM HORSERADISH SAUCE

4 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish.
Few drops onion juice.
Few grains cayenne.
1-1/2 tablespoons vinegar.
1/4 cup heavy cream whipped.
1/4 teaspoon salt.

PROCESS: Mix the first five ingredients thoroughly, then fold in the whipped cream. Chill and serve.

CREAMED NEW POTATOES

Cut two and one-half cups cold, boiled new potatoes in one-half inch cubes. Add one and one-half cups White Sauce. Season highly with salt and white pepper, and reheat in double boiler. Remove to hot serving dish and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

STEAMED SUMMER SQUASH

Wash and cut in quarters. Cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain through double cheese cloth. Pass through ricer or mash with potato masher, and season with butter, salt and a little black pepper. Reheat and serve.

LETTUCE, GARDEN CRESS AND ONION SALAD

Separate the crisp heart leaves of two heads of lettuce; arrange them on a shallow serving dish to represent a full-blown rose. Pick over, wash and dry a bunch of garden cress, chop finely and sprinkle over lettuce leaves. Chop one small onion very fine and mix with French dressing. Pour over lettuce. Serve at once.

SLICED PEACHES

Scald fine, ripe peaches; remove skins, cut in halves and remove stones. Slice lengthwise and arrange in serving dish in layers. Sprinkle each layer with sugar and lemon or orange juice. Chill and serve with cream and sugar.

_September_

_The kitchen is a country in which there are
always discoveries to be made_.--_La Reyniére._

[Sidenote: _September_

_First Sunday_]

Menu

CREAM OF PEA SOUP--CRISP SARATOGA WAFERS

BRAISED SHOULDER VEAL STUFFED--CREOLE SAUCE

POTATO BALLS SPINACH WITH CREAM

LETTUCE, RADISH AND ONION SALAD

APPLE PIE COTTAGE CHEESE

CAFÉ NOIR

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CREAM OF PEA SOUP

2 cups Marrowfat peas (or one can).
2 teaspoons sugar.
2 cups water.
1-1/2 cups scalded milk.
1 slice onion.
1-1/2 tablespoons butter.
2 tablespoons flour.
1/2 cup hot cream.
1 teaspoon salt.
1/8 teaspoon pepper.

PROCESS: Peas that are too hard to serve as a vegetable may be used for soup. Cover them with the cold water and cook until soft. Rub through sieve, reheat pulp and thicken with butter and flour cooked together. Scald milk with onion, remove onion, add milk slowly to pea mixture, stirring constantly. Add hot cream and seasoning. Serve with Crisp Saratoga Wafers.

BRAISED SHOULDER OF VEAL

Have the bones removed from five pounds of the shoulder of veal (reserve bones). Stuff with bread stuffing, truss in shape and follow directions for Braised Beef (see Page 139). Add two sprays of thyme and marjoram. Serve with

CREOLE SAUCE

4 tablespoons Cottolene.
4 tablespoons flour.
1/4 cup green pepper cut in shreds.
1 small clove garlic.
1 truffle cut in thin shreds.
1 can small button mushrooms.
1-1/2 cups thick, well-seasoned tomato pulp.
1-1/4 cups Brown Stock.
Salt, pepper and cayenne.

PROCESS: Cook pepper, onion and butter together five minutes without browning; add flour and cook two minutes, stirring constantly. Add truffle, tomato pulp and gradually Brown Stock; continue stirring until ingredients are well blended. Heat mushrooms in their own liquor, drain, and add mushrooms to sauce. Stick a tooth-pick through the clove of garlic, drop it into sauce and let it simmer fifteen minutes. Remove garlic before serving.

POTATO BALLS

Add to five hot mashed potatoes, one-fourth teaspoon celery salt, one teaspoon finely chopped parsley or chives, salt, pepper and three tablespoons butter, and enough hot milk to make of the consistency to handle. Shape into smooth, round balls, roll in flour, egg and crumbs. Fry a golden brown in deep, hot Cottolene. Dispose around Veal.

SPINACH WITH CREAM

Discard all wilted leaves, remove the roots and pick over and wash one-half peck of spinach in several waters, to rid it from all sand. If young and tender, put in a stew-pan and heat gradually; let boil twenty-five minutes, or until soft, in its own juices and the water that clung to the leaves. Old spinach should be cooked in boiling, salted water (it will require about two quarts of water to one peck spinach). Drain thoroughly, chop finely in a wooden bowl. Melt three tablespoons butter in an omelet pan; add spinach and cook four minutes, stirring constantly, sprinkle with one and one-half tablespoons flour, continue stirring and pour on gradually three-fourths cup hot, thin cream; simmer five minutes.

LETTUCE, RADISH AND ONION SALAD

Remove the leaves from the stalk, discarding all wilted and unsightly leaves. Wash and keep in cold water until crisp. Drain and dry on a crash towel or cheese cloth. Place between leaves thin slices of round, red radishes, sprinkle with finely sliced young green onions. Garnish with radishes cut to resemble tulips. Serve with French Dressing.

APPLE PIE

5 tart apples.
1/2 cup sugar.
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg.
1/8 teaspoon salt.
1-1/4 tablespoons butter.
1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Grated rind 1/4 lemon.

PROCESS: Line a pie pan with Plain Paste. Wipe, pare, core and cut apples in quarters, then in slices lengthwise. Pile them in lined pie pan, heaping them well in center, leaving a half-inch space around edge of pie. Mix sugar, nutmeg, salt, lemon juice, grated rind and turn over apples. Dot over with bits of butter; wet edges and cover with top crust; press and flute edges. Bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

PLAIN PASTE

1-1/2 cups flour.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1/2 teaspoon baking powder.
1/4 cup Cottolene.
Ice Water.

PROCESS: Mix and sift flour, salt and baking powder. Rub in Cottolene (reserving one and one-half tablespoons), with tips of fingers. Add just enough ice water to form a soft dough, mixing it in with a knife. Turn on a floured board and roll out in a thin sheet, spread lightly with remaining Cottolene. Roll like jelly roll and cut in two pieces, having one piece a trifle larger than the other. Chill. Then stand rolls on end, press down with the hand and roll in circular piece to fit pie pan. The larger piece is for the top crust. This recipe makes the exact quantity of pastry for one medium-sized pie with two crusts. If desired, omit baking powder.

COTTAGE CHEESE

Put two quarts thick sour milk in a milk pan, place it on the back of range where it will not boil or simmer; allow it to remain there until the curd has separated from the whey. Lay a double square of cheese cloth over a bowl, turn in the milk, lift the edges and corners of cloth, draw them together, tie with a piece of twine and hang it up to drain. When quite dry, turn into a bowl; season with salt and mix with a silver fork, add sweet cream until of the desired consistency. Serve very cold with hot gingerbread.

[Sidenote: _September_

_Second Sunday_]

Menu

SUMMER SAUSAGE WITH

RIPE OLIVES AND DILL PICKLES

ROAST FILLET BEEF--MUSHROOM SAUCE

PARSLEY POTATOES BROILED TOMATOES

BANANA FRITTERS

PEPPER AND ONION SALAD

MOCK MINCE PIE CHEESE

ICED TEA

BUTTERMILK

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SUMMER SAUSAGE (APPETIZER)

Cut summer sausage in very thin slices. Dispose them on a narrow platter overlapping one another. Garnish with sprays of peppergrass or parsley. Arrange thinly sliced dill pickles on either side of sausage, placing a ripe olive here and there; radishes cut to resemble roses may also be used. Serve as an appetizer.

ROAST FILLET OF BEEF

Trim a small fillet of beef weighing about four pounds into shape. Lard the upper side and sprinkle with salt, pepper and dredge with flour. Sprinkle small cubes of fat salt pork thickly over the bottom of a dripping pan, set a wire trivet or rack on pork and lay meat on trivet. Place in a very hot oven at first, to sear over surface. Baste every five minutes for the first fifteen minutes, then several times after during the cooking. If liked rare, it should cook thirty minutes; if medium, allow thirty-five to forty minutes. Serve with Brown Mushroom Sauce (see Page 167) using fat in dripping pan.

PARSLEY POTATOES

Wash, pare and cut potatoes in one-half inch cubes; there should be three cups. Blanch by parboiling five minutes in boiling salted water; drain. Melt one-third cup of butter in a frying-pan, add potatoes, and cook over a slow fire until potatoes are soft and delicately browned. Melt two tablespoons Cottolene in a sauce-pan, add a few drops onion juice, one and one-half tablespoons flour, one-half teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper; stir to a smooth paste and pour on slowly one cup hot milk, stirring constantly. Remove from range and add one egg yolk slightly beaten. Pour sauce over potatoes and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

BROILED TOMATOES

Select four firm, smooth, ripe tomatoes. Wipe them and cut out the hard center around the stem ends; then cut them in halves crosswise. Rub the cut sides lightly with a clove of garlic and dip cut side in soft butter. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and buttered crumbs, pressing the crumbs into tomato with a broad knife. Arrange them in a well-greased wire broiler and broil with skin side down over glowing coals or under a gas flame until soft, using care that they do not scorch. Remove to hot serving platter, drop a bit of butter on each and serve immediately. Onion juice may be used in place of garlic.

BANANA FRITTERS

3 bananas.
1 cup bread flour.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
1 tablespoon sugar.
1/4 cup cream or milk.
1 egg beaten very lightly.
1/2 tablespoon lemon juice.
1/2 tablespoon Sherry wine.

PROCESS: Sift dry ingredients together twice. To beaten egg add cream and combine mixtures. Force bananas through a sieve and mix pulp with lemon juice and sherry wine; add to batter, beat thoroughly, and drop by tablespoonfuls into deep, hot Cottolene. Drain, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with

ORANGE SAUCE

Make, a syrup by boiling one cup sugar with one-fourth cup water and two shavings of orange rind, four minutes. Remove from range, lift out orange peel, add one-half tablespoon butter and one tablespoon each of orange and lemon juice and Sherry wine.

PEPPER AND ONION SALAD

Plunge a bright-red bell pepper (Ruby King) into boiling water, remove immediately and rub off the outer "shiny" skin. Cover with ice water to chill and become crisp. Cut a slice from the stem end and remove the seeds and veins, then cut in rings as thin as possible. Cut one small Spanish onion in very thin slices, separate the rings and "crisp" in ice water. Drain and toss together both onion and pepper rings. Season with salt, pepper, and pour over two tablespoons oil and one tablespoon vinegar. Crush the pepper and onion into the dressing, then pile it in nests of crisp lettuce heart leaves.

MOCK MINCE PIE

2 Uneeda biscuits, rolled fine.
1-1/2 cups sugar.
1 cup molasses.
1/4 cup lemon juice.
2 tablespoons brandy.
1 cup raisins seeded and shredded.
1/2 cup butter.
2 eggs well beaten.
Cinnamon, Cloves, and Nutmeg.

PROCESS: Mix ingredients in the order given. Add spices to taste. Line a pie pan with Plain Paste, turn in mixture, wet edges and cover with top crust made of Rich Paste; press and flute edges. Bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

RICH PASTE

1-1/2 cups flour.
1/3 cup Cottolene.
3/4 teaspoon salt.
1/2 teaspoon baking powder.
Ice water.

PROCESS: Mix salt with flour, cut in Cottolene (except one tablespoon) with a knife, moisten with cold water. Turn on a floured board, pat and roll out, spread with tablespoon of Cottolene and dredge lightly with flour, then roll sheet like a jelly roll; divide in two equal parts. Roll out a trifle larger than pie tin.

[Sidenote: _September_

_Third Sunday_]

Menu

VEAL, SPANISH STYLE, (IN CASSEROLE)

STUFFED POTATOES--TURNIPS IN CREAM SAUCE

STEWED CORN AND TOMATOES

DRESSED ENDIVE

PEACH DUMPLINGS--SHERRY SAUCE

COFFEE

CIDER

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VEAL, SPANISH STYLE, (IN CASSEROLE)

2 pounds veal, cut from leg.
1/3 cup fat salt pork or bacon.
3/4 cup fine, soft bread crumbs.
1 teaspoon salt.
1/8 teaspoon black pepper.
Few grains cayenne.
1 teaspoon chopped parsley.
2 cups cooked and strained tomato pulp.
1/2 green pepper finely chopped.
1/2 onion finely chopped.
1 egg slightly beaten.
Soda.
Worcestershire Sauce.

PROCESS: Remove all fat tissue and skin from veal; remove skin from pork. Pass both through meat grinder twice, add crumbs and seasonings, except tomato, onion and green pepper; mix thoroughly and bind together with egg. Shape in balls the size of a small egg. Roll in flour and sauté a rich brown in Cottolene made hot in an iron frying pan. Heat tomato pulp, add one-eighth teaspoon soda, one-half teaspoon salt and one-half tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce. Turn into a warm casserole, add chopped pepper and onion. Dispose balls over sauce, rinse frying pan with a little boiling water or Brown Stock and pour over balls. Cover and let simmer in a moderate oven two hours. Serve from casserole, or arrange on a hot platter and surround with a border of boiled rice sprinkled with finely chopped parsley; place a spray of parsley in each meat ball.

STUFFED POTATOES

Wash six medium-sized, smooth potatoes. Bake, and cut off a lengthwise slice from each; scoop out potato with a spoon using care that the shells are not broken. Pass through ricer, add two tablespoons butter, season with salt and pepper, one-half cup hot milk or cream. Add two egg yolks well beaten, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Refill shells with this mixture, using pastry bag and rose tube or pile it lightly with spoon (do not spread smoothly). Bake in a hot oven until potatoes are well puffed and browned.

TURNIPS IN CREAM SAUCE

Wash, pare and cut purple-top turnips in one-fourth inch cubes. Cook in boiling salted water until tender (from forty minutes to one hour). Drain well and reheat in White Sauce using cream in place of milk in sauce. (For Cream Sauce see Page 151.)

STEWED CORN AND TOMATOES

Cut the corn from six ears of tender, sweet, green corn; scrape the cobs with back of knife. Cook until tender in as little water as possible, then add an equal quantity of stewed tomatoes. Add one-third cup butter and one tablespoon sugar. Season with salt and pepper, heat to boiling point and turn into hot serving dish.

DRESSED ENDIVE

Marinate the bleached leaves of crisp endive with French Dressing, adding one and one-half tablespoons finely chopped chives and one-half tablespoon Nasturtium seed cells finely chopped, to the dressing just before pouring over Endive.

PEACH DUMPLINGS

2 cups flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar.
2 tablespoons Cottolene.
7/8 cup cream.
Peaches.
2-1/2 cups cold water.

PROCESS: Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt; rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers, add cream gradually, cutting it in with a knife. Turn on a floured board, knead slightly, pat and roll out to one-half inch thickness. Shape with a large biscuit cutter. Pare juicy, ripe peaches, cut in halves lengthwise, remove stones, cut in quarters and place three-quarters of a peach on each circle of dough, enclose them, pressing the edges together. Place in a buttered, granite dripping pan one and one-half inches apart, sift sugar around dumplings and pour cold water over sugar. Bake in a hot oven twenty minutes, basting three times. Serve with Hard or

SHERRY SAUCE

3 tablespoons butter.
1/2 cup sugar.
2 egg yolks well beaten.
3/4 cup cream.
3 tablespoons sherry wine.
Few grains salt.
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg.

PROCESS: Cream butter, add sugar, egg yolks, salt and gradually the cream, stirring constantly. Cook over hot water until mixture coats the spoon; add sherry and beat again. Turn in a sauce boat and sprinkle with nutmeg.

[Sidenote: _September_

_Fourth Sunday_]

Menu

TOMATO SOUP

FRIED CHICKEN--CREAM GRAVY

BAKED POTATOES CORN FRITTERS

CAULIFLOWER SALAD

PEACH CAKE WITH CREAM

COFFEE

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TOMATO SOUP

(For recipe see Page 40.)

FRIED CHICKEN

Dress, clean and disjoint two chickens. Rub chicken over with a half lemon cut in half lengthwise, sprinkle with salt, pepper and dredge with flour. Sauté in hot Cottolene until richly browned, turning often. Reduce heat, cover and let cook slowly until tender. It may be necessary to add a little moisture (about 1/4 cup of hot stock or water). Remove to serving platter and surround with Corn Fritters. Pass Cream Gravy.

CREAM GRAVY

1/4 cup butter.
1 slice onion.
1/4 cup flour.
1-1/2 cups well-seasoned chicken stock.
1/2 cup hot cream.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1/8 teaspoon pepper.

PROCESS: Cook butter in a sauce-pan with onion until onion is delicately browned. Remove onion, add flour mixed with seasonings; stir to a smooth paste and brown lightly. Add hot stock gradually, stirring constantly. Add hot cream and beat until smooth and glossy. The color of this sauce is that of Café au Lait.

CORN FRITTERS

2 cups grated corn.
1/4 cup milk.
1-1/3 cup flour.
2 teaspoons sugar.
1/3 cup melted butter.
1 teaspoon salt.
1/8 teaspoon pepper.
3 eggs well beaten.

PROCESS: Mix corn, milk, flour, sugar and salt, add eggs. Drop by tablespoonfuls on a hot well-greased griddle and cook as griddle cakes until browned on one side; then turn and brown the other side.

CAULIFLOWER SALAD

Marinate a prepared cauliflower (see recipe on Page 95) with French Dressing, to which add one tablespoon finely chopped chives. Dispose in a nest of peppergrass, water cress, endive or lettuce heart leaves. Sprinkle with grated Edam cheese.

PEACH CAKE WITH SWEETENED CREAM

2 cups flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
3 tablespoons Cottolene.
3/4 cup rich milk.
5 peaches.
Sultana raisins.
Mace and sugar.

PROCESS: Mix and sift the first three ingredients. Rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers, add milk, mixing it in with a knife. This dough must be soft enough to spread in a shallow, well-buttered pan to the depth of one inch. (Add more milk if necessary.) Pare ripe, juicy peaches; cut in halves lengthwise, remove stones and press halves into dough (cut side up) in parallel rows, leaving a little space between rows. Brush peaches over with melted butter, sprinkle with raisins, granulated sugar and lightly with mace. Serve hot with Hard Sauce, or with cream sweetened and flavored with nutmeg.

_October_

_Oh! You who have been a-fishing
will endorse me when I say,
That it always is the biggest fish
you catch that gets away._
--_Eugene Field._

[Sidenote: _October_

_First Sunday_]

Menu

SHRIMP COCKTAILS

POTATO SOUP--CROUTONS

BOILED COD--EGG SAUCE

BOILED POTATOES--SCALLOPED TOMATOES

PICKLED BEETS

STEAMED PEACH PUDDING--VANILLA SAUCE

AFTER-DINNER COFFEE

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SHRIMP COCKTAILS

Allow one-fourth cup shrimps broken in pieces for each Cocktail. Season with two tablespoons each tomato catsup, Sherry wine, one tablespoon lemon juice, a few drops Tobasco Sauce, one-fourth teaspoon finely chopped chives and salt to taste. Serve thoroughly chilled in Cocktail glasses.

POTATO SOUP

4 cups potatoes.
1 large purple-top turnip.
3 cups boiling water.
3-1/2 cups scalded milk.
1 onion sliced.
1/4 cup butter.
1/3 cup flour.
2 teaspoons salt.
1/8 teaspoon pepper.
1/2 cup hot cream.
Parsley.

PROCESS: Wash, pare and cut potatoes in one-fourth inch slices. Wash, pare and cut turnip the same. Cover with boiling water and cook ten minutes; drain, add onion and three cups boiling water. Cook until vegetables are tender; drain and reserve water. Rub vegetables through strainer, add water, add milk. Reheat and bind with butter and flour cooked together. Add hot cream and seasonings. Turn into hot tureen and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

BOILED FRESH COD

Wash and wipe a four-pound cut of fresh cod. Tie it loosely in a piece of cheese cloth just large enough to cover fish. Place on a trivet in a kettle, cover with boiling water, and add three slices onion, three slices carrot, one spray parsley, a bit of bay leaf, three cloves, a tablespoon salt and one-half cup vinegar. Bring quickly to the boiling point, then reduce heat and simmer gently from twenty to thirty minutes. Hard boiling breaks up the flakes of fish and toughens the fibre. Drain from liquor, place fish on serving platter, remove the skin and pour a few spoonfuls of Egg Sauce over the fish and the remainder around it. Sprinkle finely chopped parsley over all, and garnish with hard-cooked eggs cut to resemble pond lilies.

EGG SAUCE

4 tablespoons butter.
3 tablespoons flour.
1 cup boiling water.
1/2 cup hot cream.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1/8 teaspoon pepper.
4 hard-cooked eggs.
Parsley finely chopped.

PROCESS: Melt one-half the butter in a sauce-pan, add flour mixed with seasonings, pour on slowly hot water, stirring constantly. Boil five minutes, then add remaining butter in small bits. Continue stirring. Add hot cream and two eggs chopped moderately. Garnish with remaining eggs. Pour sauce around fish and sprinkle with parsley.

BOILED POTATOES

Wash, scrub and pare one dozen medium-sized potatoes. If old, let them stand in cold water for several hours before paring, to freshen them. Cover with cold water, heat to boiling point, cover and boil fifteen minutes, then add salt, replace cover and cook until potatoes are soft (about fifteen minutes longer). Drain perfectly dry and shake the potatoes in a current of cold air. Place sauce-pan in a warm place, cover with a crash towel until ready to serve. Serve as soon as possible, if you would have a mealy potato.

SCALLOPED TOMATOES

Season one quart of canned tomatoes with one and a fourth teaspoons salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, two tablespoons sugar, one-half tablespoon grated onion and a few grains cayenne. Moisten one and one-half cups of soft bread crumbs with one-half cup melted butter. Butter a deep baking dish, sprinkle with a thick layer of crumbs. Pour in tomato mixture and cover with remaining crumbs. Bake in the oven until cooked throughout and crumbs are browned.

PICKLED BEETS

Prepare beets as for Buttered Beets (see Page 143). Cut them in slices and lay them in a stone or glass jar. Allow one slice of onion for each beet, one tablespoon grated horseradish, eight cloves and vinegar enough to cover. Let stand twenty-four hours and they will be ready for use. Beets thus prepared will not keep longer than a week. If vinegar is too strong, dilute with one-fourth part cold water.

STEAMED PEACH PUDDING

Fill a two-quart mold two-thirds full of pared, stoned and sliced peaches. Butter the inside edge of mold, also the inside of cover. Cover with a soft dough made by mixing and sifting two cups flour, one-half teaspoon salt and four teaspoons baking powder. Rub one tablespoon Cottolene into flour mixture with tips of fingers, add sufficient rich milk to make a soft dough. Sprinkle peaches with one-half cup sugar, one-fourth teaspoon salt and dot over with one tablespoon butter cut in small bits. Spread soft dough over all, cover closely and steam one hour. Serve at once with

VANILLA SAUCE

1 tablespoon corn-starch.
1 cup sugar.
1/8 teaspoon salt.
2 cups boiling water.
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla.
2 tablespoons butter.

PROCESS: Mix corn-starch, sugar and salt, add water slowly, stirring constantly. Boil gently eight minutes, remove from range, add vanilla, and butter in small bits; stir until well blended.

[Sidenote: _October_

_Second Sunday_]

Menu

VEGETABLE SOUP

FRIED CHICKEN--BÉCHAMEL SAUCE

BROWNED SWEET POTATOES STUFFED TOMATOES

KOLE SLAW

BAKED APPLES STUFFED WITH FIGS

COFFEE

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VEGETABLE SOUP

1/2 cup carrot.
1/2 cup turnip.
1/2 cup celery.
2 cups potato.
1/3 cup onion.
1-1/2 quarts beef broth.
1/3 cup butter.
1/2 tablespoon finely chopped parsley.
1-1/2 teaspoons salt.
1/8 teaspoon pepper.

PROCESS: Wash and scrape carrot, cut in tiny cubes; wash and pare turnip, cut same as carrot; wash, scrape and cut celery in thin slices; wash, pare and cut potatoes in one-fourth inch cubes; peel and cut onion in thin slices, mix vegetables, except potatoes, and cook ten minutes in butter, stirring constantly. Add potatoes, cover and cook three or four minutes, add beef broth which was previously strained and all fat removed. Cover and simmer one hour. Put parsley, salt and pepper in bottom of soup tureen and turn in hot soup.

FRIED CHICKEN

Separate two young chickens in pieces for serving; dip in milk, sprinkle with salt, pepper and dredge with flour, or dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs and fry in deep hot Cottolene. Cottolene should not be too hot the latter half of cooking chicken. Drain on brown paper; serve on hot buttered toast with Béchamel Sauce. Double the recipe for Béchamel Sauce (see Page 85.)

BROWNED SWEET POTATOES

Boil sweet potatoes, remove skins and cut lengthwise in one-half inch slices. Cool. Dip each slice in melted butter, sprinkle with salt, pepper and thickly with brown sugar. Lay in a well-greased dripping pan and brown in a hot oven. Dispose around rim of platter containing Fried Chicken.

STUFFED TOMATOES

Select six firm, smooth tomatoes. Cut a thin slice from the blossom end. Carefully scoop out the pulp and mix it with an equal quantity of cooked corn, rice or bread crumbs. Season with salt, pepper, a few grains cayenne, three tablespoons melted butter and a few drops of onion juice. Refill tomato cups, replace the tops, place them in a buttered baking dish and bake thirty minutes.

KOLE SLAW

Shred half a head of cabbage very fine. Soak in cold, acidulated water to cover (add one tablespoon vinegar to one quart water). Drain and mix thoroughly with Cream Dressing. (See Page 50.) Chill and serve in lemon cups arranged in nests of cress or parsley.

BAKED APPLES STUFFED WITH FIGS

Select fine-flavored, tart apples, wipe, core and pare. Fill cavities with washed figs cut in pieces. Bake until tender in a hot oven, basting with hot sugar syrup. Serve cold with thick cream sweetened, and flavored with nutmeg.

SUGAR SYRUP

Cook one cup sugar and one and one-half cups water ten minutes. Add two thin shavings of orange rind to syrup while cooking.

[Sidenote: _October_

_Third Sunday_]

Menu

TOMATO SOUP--TOASTED WAFERS

PICKLES CELERY

BRAISED BEEF--BROWN GRAVY

BAKED POTATOES--FRIED EGG PLANT

SCALLOPED CABBAGE

ROMAINE--FRENCH DRESSING

CHEESE FINGERS

PEACH DUFF--FOAMY SAUCE

CAFÉ NOIR

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TOMATO SOUP

(For recipe see Page 40).

BRAISED BEEF

Select five pounds of beef from the round or rump. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and dredge with flour. Brown richly in a hot frying-pan in some of its own fat; or with fat salt pork tried out, turning often. Place meat in a Dutch oven or an earthen casserole on three thin slices of salt pork, surround with two-thirds cup each of fat salt pork cut in small cubes, carrot, onion and celery, a spray each of parsley, thyme and marjoram. Add two cups Brown Stock or water, the half of a small bay leaf, two small red pepper-pods, or one-half teaspoon pepper-corns, four cloves. Sprinkle all with salt and strew top of meat with cubes of salt pork. Cover closely and cook in a slow oven from four to five hours, basting occasionally. Remove meat and strain the liquor. Rinse the vessel in which meat was browned with stock or water, reserve the liquor. Prepare a Brown Sauce with this liquor following recipe for Plain Brown Sauce (see Page 82).

Serve in a sauce-boat, or turn around meat after placing on hot serving platter. A cup of hot, stewed and strained tomatoes may be added to the sauce, also one and one-half tablespoons of freshly grated horseradish root and one tablespoon of Worcestershire Sauce; all of which improves the flavor.

BAKED POTATOES

Wash and scrub with a vegetable brush eight uniform-sized potatoes. Place in dripping pan, and bake in hot oven forty-five minutes, turning when half done. Take up each potato with a towel and press gently to crack the skins. Put a half teaspoon butter in each potato and serve at once.

FRIED EGG PLANT

Pare a medium-sized egg plant, cut in one-fourth inch slices and soak in cold salt water over night. Drain and cover with cold water one hour, drain again and dry between towels. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dip in batter and fry in deep, hot Cottolene.

FRITTER BATTER

1 cup bread flour.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
Few grains white pepper.
2/3 cup milk.
2 eggs well beaten.
2 teaspoons olive oil.

PROCESS: Mix and sift flour, salt and pepper; add milk slowly, stirring until batter is smooth; add olive oil and well beaten eggs.

SCALLOPED CABBAGE

Cut one-half large head or one small head boiled cabbage, in pieces. Cover with one cup White Sauce, sprinkle with one-third cup grated cheese, two tablespoons finely chopped pimentos; season with salt, pepper, mix well. Turn into a well-greased baking dish and cover with buttered crumbs; place on grate in oven and bake until heated throughout and crumbs are browned.

ROMAINE WITH FRENCH DRESSING

Remove the wilted leaves from two heads of romaine, trim off the stalk and cut the heads in halves lengthwise (if heads are large, they may be cut in quarters); lay in cold water, cut side down, until crisp. Drain well, dispose on salad plates and pour over French Dressing. Serve two Cheese Fingers with each portion of Salad.

CHEESE FINGERS

Mix one Cream Cheese with an equal quantity of finely chopped English walnut meats; season with salt, black pepper and a few grains cayenne. Moisten with Cream Salad Dressing. Spread between thin slices of white bread and cut in strips the width of fingers.

PEACH DUFF

1 quart thinly sliced peaches.
2 cups sugar.
1 tablespoon Cottolene.
3/4 cup milk.
2 cups flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1 teaspoon salt.

PROCESS: Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt; rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers, add milk gradually, mixing ingredients with a knife. Turn on a slightly floured board, knead slightly, pat and roll to fit top of pudding dish. Butter bottom and sides of dish, put in peaches and sugar in layers. Cover with dough; press edges over edge of dish and steam one hour. Serve in dish in which it was steamed. Serve with

FOAMY SAUCE

1/2 cup butter.
1 cup powdered sugar.
Yolk 1 egg.
2 tablespoons sherry wine.
Whites 2 eggs.
Nutmeg.

PROCESS: Cream butter; add sugar gradually, stirring constantly, yolk of egg and sherry; continue stirring. Cook over hot water until mixture thinly coats wooden spoon. Remove from range and pour over stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Turn in serving pitcher and sprinkle with nutmeg.

[Sidenote: _October_

_Fourth Sunday_]

Menu

WALNUT AND OLIVE CANAPÉ

CLAM AND TOMATO CONSOMMÉ

BROWNED CRACKERS

SWEET GHERKINS PICCALILLI

VEAL POT PIE WITH BAKED DUMPLINGS

BUTTERED BEETS BAKED SQUASH

STUFFED TOMATO SALAD

MOCK CHERRY PIE CHEESE

COFFEE CIDER

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NUT AND OLIVE CANAPÉ

Cut stale white bread in crescents. Fry a delicate brown in deep hot Cottolene. Drain on brown paper. Mix equal parts of finely chopped olives and English walnuts, season with a few grains cayenne and moisten with Mayonnaise or Boiled Salad Dressing to the consistency to spread. Spread fried bread with mixture and garnish with very thin strips of pimentos; set pimolas in center of each canapé.

CLAM AND TOMATO CONSOMMÉ

To four cups of Consommé add two cups each clam water and tomato pulp. Clear, and add soft part of clams. Heat to boiling point and serve in Bouillon cups.

TO PREPARE CLAMS

Wash and scrub (in several waters) with a stiff vegetable brush two quarts of clams. Place in an agate stew pan, add one-half cup cold water, cover and let simmer until shells open. Remove clams from shells and strain liquor through a napkin. Use only the soft parts of clams.

BROWNED CRACKERS

Spread one dozen Saltines with butter; sprinkle with a few grains cayenne. Brown delicately in a hot oven; serve at once.

PICCALILLI

3 quarts green tomatoes.
2 heads celery.
4 mild red peppers.
2 mild green peppers.
2 large white onions.
2 large ripe cucumbers.
1 cup salt.
1-1/2 quarts cider vinegar.
2 pounds brown sugar.
1/4 cup white mustard seed.
1 teaspoon mustard.
1-1/2 teaspoons black pepper.

PROCESS: Chop the vegetables, sprinkle with salt and let stand over night. In the morning drain and press in a coarse crash towel to remove all the acrid juice possible. Add vinegar, sugar and spices and simmer until vegetables are tender and clear. Sterilize fruit jars and fill to overflowing. Seal and store.

VEAL POT PIE WITH BAKED DUMPLINGS

Cut two pounds of veal from the leg in one-inch cubes. Add a fourth-inch thick slice of salt pork, cut in very small cubes. Cover with boiling water. Add one small carrot sliced, one stalk celery broken in pieces, and two slices onion. When half done add one-half tablespoon salt. Cook until meat is tender. Remove the meat and strain the broth; thicken broth with flour diluted with cold water. Put meat into a baking dish and pour over enough of the thickened broth to barely cover the meat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Make a soft dough by mixing and sifting one and one-half cups pastry flour, one-half teaspoon salt, two and one-half teaspoons baking powder; rub in three tablespoons Cottolene with tips of fingers, then add milk enough to make a soft dough and drop by tablespoonfuls upon meat--(dumplings should set upon the meat and not sink into gravy) close together to cover the surface. Bake thirty minutes in a hot oven. Serve remaining gravy in a sauce-boat.

BUTTERED BEETS

Wash and scrub beets with a vegetable brush, being careful not to break the skin. Cook in boiling water to cover (about an hour for small young beets, and old beets until tender). Drain and rub off the skins at once; slice, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dot over with bits of butter. Serve hot.

BAKED SQUASH

Cut Hubbard squash in pieces for serving. Remove seeds and stringy portion. Put one-half teaspoon molasses in each portion and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake in a hot oven until tender. Put a piece of butter on each portion and serve in the shell.

STUFFED TOMATO SALAD

Select six smooth, ripe tomatoes. Scald quickly and remove skins. Cut a slice from stem ends, scoop out pulp and chill tomato cups. Drain the pulp and add an equal quantity of crisp celery cut in small pieces, cucumber cut in small dice, and shrimp broken in four pieces. Moisten with Mayonnaise Dressing. Refill tomato cups, put a rose of Mayonnaise on top of each, using pastry bag and rose tube. Serve in lettuce heart leaves.

MOCK CHERRY PIE

Mix one and one-half cups cranberries chopped moderately, three-fourths cup seeded and shredded raisins, one cup sugar, one tablespoon flour and a sprinkle of salt. Pile this mixture in a pie pan lined with Plain Paste. Dot over with one tablespoon butter. Add two tablespoons orange juice. Cover with Rich Paste and bake as other pies.

_November_

_An odor rich comes stealing,
From out the oven bright,
That sets my pulse a-reeling,
And gives my heart delight._
--_R. R._

[Sidenote: _November_

_First Sunday_]

Menu

OYSTERS ON THE HALF SHELL

CONSOMMÉ DUCHESS--IMPERIAL STICKS

CUCUMBER PICKLES CELERY

ROLLED RIB ROAST OF BEEF--BROWN GRAVY

FRANCONIA POTATOES BAKED TOMATOES

SPICED CRAB APPLES

ESCAROLLE SALAD

GRAHAM PLUM PUDDING WITH BROWN SUGAR SAUCE

CHEESE

COFFEE

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CONSOMMÉ DUCHESS

(For recipe see Page 15.)

ROLLED RIB ROAST OF BEEF

Have the ribs removed, meat rolled and skewered in shape, from a five-pound rib roast of beef, at the market, (have ribs and trimmings sent with roast). Wipe meat, sprinkle with salt, pepper, dredge with flour and arrange on rack in dripping pan. Place in a hot oven and, when slightly brown, reduce heat and baste every ten minutes for the first half hour with fat in pan, afterwards every fifteen minutes during cooking. (If cooked rare it will require one hour and fifteen minutes.)

BROWN GRAVY

Drain and strain fat in the pan--return three tablespoons to dripping pan, add four and one-half tablespoons flour and brown richly (do not burn flour), add slowly one and one-half cups of Brown Stock or boiling water, stirring constantly. Season with salt, pepper, and one-half teaspoon Kitchen Bouquet.

FRANCONIA POTATOES

Wash and pare six medium-sized potatoes; parboil five minutes. Drain dry. Place on grate around roast beef. Baste with fat in pan when basting roast. Bake from thirty to thirty-five minutes, turning often or when basting roast. Sprinkle with salt and serve surrounding rolled roast, alternating with Stuffed Tomatoes.

BAKED TOMATOES

Select six smooth, firm, ripe tomatoes. Wash, wipe and cut a slice from the stem end; scoop out the seeds and soft pulp. Mix with the pulp an equal amount of corn cut from the cob, one tablespoon finely chopped green pepper, half tablespoon finely chopped onion. Season with salt and pepper, add one and one-half tablespoons melted butter and a teaspoon salt. Mix well and refill tomato cups; sprinkle tops with buttered crumbs. Place tomatoes in a granite dripping pan and bake until tomatoes are soft and crumbs are brown. Remove to serving dish with a broad knife and serve.

SPICED CRAB APPLES

Pick over, wash and drain firm crab apples, do not remove the stems. (Apples must not be too ripe). For eight pounds of fruit allow four pounds of sugar, one quart vinegar, one-fourth cup whole cloves, one-fourth cup stick cinnamon broken in pieces. Boil sugar, vinegar and spices ten minutes. Strain and tie spices loosely in a piece of cheese cloth. Put fruit in strained liquor, also bag of spices, and cook slowly until fruit can be easily pierced with a small wooden skewer (tooth-pick). Remove fruit and fill a sterilized stone jar. Simmer liquor slowly until reduced to half the original quantity; pour over fruit. Lay bag of spices on top; seal and store.

ESCAROLLE SALAD

Marinate the bleached leaves of two heads of escarolle with French Dressing. Chill one hour before serving that it may be crisp. Sprinkle thickly with finely chopped chives and a sweet, red, bell pepper chopped very fine or cut in fine thread-like rings.

GRAHAM PLUM PUDDING

1-1/2 cups Graham flour.
1 cup N. O. molasses.
1/2 cup milk.
1 cup seeded raisins.
1 teaspoon cinnamon.
1/4 teaspoon cloves.
2 eggs well beaten.
1/2 teaspoon soda.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons Cottolene.

PROCESS: Sift flour, spices, salt and soda; add raisins, molasses, milk and eggs, beat thoroughly, then add melted Cottolene. Turn into well-greased brown bread molds and steam four hours. Serve with

BROWN SUGAR SAUCE

5 tablespoons butter.
1 cup soft brown sugar.
1/2 tablespoon vanilla.
1/3 cup thick cream.

PROCESS: Roll sugar, sift and add gradually to cream, stirring constantly. Cream butter and add first mixture slowly, continue stirring. Add vanilla and beat thoroughly with a whip.

[Sidenote: _November_

_Second Sunday_]

Menu

CONSOMMÉ--BREAD STICKS

CELERY HEARTS MUSTARD PICKLES

ROAST VENISON WINE SAUCE

MASHED SWEET POTATOES CREAMED CELERY

SPICED PEACHES

PEPPER AND GRAPE FRUIT SALAD

MAYONNAISE DRESSING

NUT BREAD SANDWICHES

FROZEN RICE PUDDING

COMPOTE PINEAPPLE

STUFFED DATES SALTED NUTS

CAFÉ NOIR

CONSOMMÉ

4 lbs. thickest part of hind beef shin.
1 lb. marrow-bone.
3 lbs. knuckle of veal.
4 cups chicken stock.
Carrot }
Celery } 1/2 cup each, cut in cubes.
Turnip }
1 medium-sized onion sliced.
3 tablespoons butter.
1 tablespoon salt.
1 teaspoon peppercorns.
1/2 dozen cloves.
1 small bay leaf.
2 sprays parsley.
3 sprays thyme.
2 sprays marjoram.
4 quarts cold water.

PROCESS: Wipe the meat and bone with a piece of cheese-cloth wrung from cold water. Remove the meat from beef shin and cut it in one-inch cubes. Remove the marrow from bone and brown one-half the meat in the marrow, stirring constantly. Put remaining half in stock pot with cold water, add veal cut in small cubes, browned beef and bones. Let stand thirty-five minutes. Bring slowly to boiling point, skim and let simmer--closely covered--for three hours. Add chicken stock and continue simmering for two hours. Melt butter in frying pan, add the vegetables and cook five minutes, stirring constantly; then add to soup with remaining ingredients. Cook one and one-half hours. Strain, cool, remove fat and clear.

BREAD STICKS

1 cup scalded milk or water.
1/4 cup Cottolene.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 tablespoon sugar.
1 yeast cake dissolved in
1/4 cup lukewarm water.
White 1 egg well beaten.
3-3/4 to 4 cups of flour.