Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Part 17

SPINACH WITH EGGS

PRUNE AND PECAN NUT SALAD

APRICOT MARMALADE MOLD

COCOANUT CAKE

COFFEE

CHICKEN BOUILLON CHANTILLY

Pour six cups of hot, well-seasoned Chicken Bouillon into hot bouillon cups. Drop on top of each portion one tablespoon whipped cream delicately seasoned with salt, pepper and a few grains cayenne. Sprinkle cream with paprika or finely chopped chives.

FRICa.s.sEE OF CHICKEN

Dress, singe, clean and cut two young chickens in pieces for serving.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and dredge with flour, brown richly in equal parts of Cottolene and b.u.t.ter, turning often that pieces may be evenly browned. Then cover with boiling water to which add a bit of bay leaf, one-half teaspoon peppercorns, a spray of parsley, six slices carrot and three slices onion. Cover and simmer until chicken is tender (from one to one and one-quarter hours). Remove chicken from stock, cover and keep warm; strain stock; there should be two cups. Melt four tablespoons b.u.t.ter in a sauce pan, add four tablespoons flour, stir to a paste, then gradually pour on the two cups hot stock, stirring constantly; let simmer ten minutes. Remove from range, add one cup of hot cream and the yolks of two eggs slightly beaten. Reheat chicken in sauce (do not allow sauce to boil after adding yolks). Serve with Waffles.

SPINACH WITH DEVILED EGGS

1 peck spinach.

1/4 pound bacon.

Salt, pepper.

1/3 cup b.u.t.ter.

Few grains nutmeg.

5 hard-cooked eggs.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

1/4 teaspoon pepper.

1/2 teaspoon finely chopped parsley.

1/2 teaspoon grated onion.

1/2 cup minced ham.

Cream Salad Dressing.

PROCESS: Cook spinach in the usual way. Cook the bacon with spinach to give it flavor. When spinach is tender, remove bacon, drain spinach and chop fine. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add b.u.t.ter, mix well and pack into an oval mold. Keep hot over hot water, cut eggs in halves lengthwise, remove yolks and rub through a sieve. Add ham, salt, pepper, parsley and onion juice. Moisten with Cream Salad Dressing to bind mixture together. Refill halves of eggs with this mixture, heaping it pyramid-like. Turn mold of spinach on hot serving dish and surround with stuffed eggs.

PRUNE AND NUT SALAD

Buy very select prunes for this purpose (tins holding one or two pounds are best), cook prunes in the usual way, letting the liquor evaporate during the latter part of cooking. Prunes should not be as well done as when serving them as sauce. Drain prunes from the liquor and chill them.

Remove the stones carefully, cut prunes in five pieces lengthwise. Cut pecan nut meats in four pieces lengthwise. Mix prunes and nut meats, sprinkle with salt and paprika. For one-half pound prunes and one-fourth pound sh.e.l.led nut meats allow one cup whipping cream. Whip cream until solid, season with one-half teaspoon each salt and paprika; add two tablespoons lemon juice and one and one-half tablespoons Sherry wine slowly, while beating constantly. Mix two-thirds of the cream with the prunes and nuts. Arrange the heart leaves of lettuce on cold, individual salad plates, pile some of the mixture in each and mask with remaining whipped cream. Arrange three pieces of prunes on top of each portion, radiating from center, and place a cherry or strawberry on top of each.

STEAMED SNOW b.a.l.l.s

(For recipe, see page 168.)

COCOANUT CAKE

2/3 cup Cottolene.

2 cups sugar.

3 eggs.

3 cups flour.

5 teaspoons baking powder.

1/4 teaspoon salt.

1 cup milk.

1/2 teaspoon each lemon and vanilla.

PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add one cup sugar gradually, stirring constantly. Beat yolks thick and light, add remaining cup sugar gradually, continue beating. Combine mixtures. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add to first mixture alternately with milk. Add vanilla and fold in the whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry. Turn into two well-greased, square cake pans and bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Spread one layer thickly with Boiled Frosting, sprinkle heavily with fresh grated cocoanut, cover with remaining layer. Spread top and sides with frosting, and sprinkle with cocoanut before frosting glazes.

BOILED FROSTING

2 cups sugar.

1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar.

1/2 cup water.

Whites 2 eggs.

PROCESS: Mix sugar, cream of tartar and water in a sauce pan. Place on range and stir until mixture begins to boil. When syrup drops from the wooden spoon thick like honey, remove from range and add eight tablespoons of the syrup to the stiffly beaten whites of eggs, beating constantly. Return remaining syrup to range, continue cooking until syrup spins a thread at least five inches in length. Pour syrup in a thin stream onto first mixture and beat until cool and slightly glazed on side of bowl. Spread thickly on cake.

[Sidenote: _April_

_Second Sunday_]

Menu

SMOKED STURGEON CANAPe

CLAM BROTH b.u.t.tERED WAFERS

BROILED FINNAN HADDIE

POTATOES ON THE HALF Sh.e.l.l

PEGGY'S SOUR CABBAGE

CHEESE SOUFFLe

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

COFFEE