Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Part 25

Make tea and chill. Serve in gla.s.ses filled with crushed ice, adding (if desired) one tablespoon lemon juice to each gla.s.s. Pa.s.s fine granulated (Bar) sugar. Place each gla.s.s on a small plate.

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[Sidenote: _June_

_Second Sunday_]

Menu

CHEESE CANAPeS

HAMBURG ROAST--BROWN SAUCE

ROAST NEW POTATOES

GREEN PEAS WITH NEW CARROTS IN CREAM SAUCE

GARDEN CRESS WITH ORANGES--FRENCH DRESSING

CURRANT PIE

COFFEE CHERRY PUNCH

CHEESE CANAPeS

Cut stale bread in one-quarter inch slices, shape with small biscuit cutter (2 inches in diameter). Spread lightly with French or German mustard, sprinkle thickly with grated cheese, sprinkle cheese with finely chopped olives. Place a small stuffed olive in center of each.

Dispose on a small plate covered with a paper doily. Garnish with sprays of parsley and serve as an "appetizer."

HAMBURG ROAST

Remove the fat and stringy parts, also marrow-bone, from two pounds round steak. Pa.s.s through the meat grinder twice; add the marrow taken from bone, one tablespoon green pepper finely chopped, one tablespoon onion finely chopped, season well with salt and the beaten yolks of two eggs or one whole egg slightly beaten; add one-half cup of soft bread crumbs that have been soaked in cold water thirty minutes and wrung dry in a double cheese cloth. Mix ingredients thoroughly with the hand.

Shape in a compact roll of uniform thickness. Lay thin slices of salt pork or bacon in the bottom of a dripping pan, set the roast on them; lay thin slices of salt pork over the meat and place in a hot oven.

After the first eight minutes reduce the heat and baste with the hot fat in the pan; let cook about thirty minutes, basting every ten minutes. The roast should be richly browned on the outside and a delicate pink inside. Serve surrounded with Tomato, Brown or Creole Sauce.

BROWN SAUCE

2 tablespoons b.u.t.ter.

1 slice onion.

4 tablespoons flour.

1-1/2 cups Brown Stock.

1/4 teaspoon salt.

1/8 teaspoon pepper.

PROCESS: Melt b.u.t.ter in sauce pan, add onion and cook until delicately browned; remove onion, and cook b.u.t.ter until richly browned, stirring constantly; add flour sifted with seasonings, stir to a paste and continue browning. Then pour on stock, slowly stirring until smooth and glossy. Onion may be omitted.

ROAST NEW POTATOES

Select uniform-sized new potatoes, wash and scrub them with a brush, pare and parboil ten to fifteen minutes (according to the size) in boiling salted water. Drain and place them around rack in dripping pan in which meat is roasting and cook until tender. Baste occasionally with fat in pan when basting roast.

GREEN PEAS AND NEW CARROTS IN CREAM SAUCE

Cook one and one-half cups of peas in just enough water to prevent them from burning. Add salt fifteen minutes before removing them from range.

Wash, scrub and sc.r.a.pe new carrots and cut them in one-fourth inch cubes (there should be one and one-half cups); cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain and mix with peas. Reheat them in one and one-half cups of Cream Sauce (for recipe see Page 151).

GARDEN CRESS WITH ORANGES

Arrange individual nests of Garden Cress on six chilled salad plates.

Cut eight oranges in halves, remove the pulp, discarding veins and sections. Leave the pulp in the original shape as taken from the sections; divide the pulp evenly between the six nests. Serve with French Dressing and sprinkle each portion with paprika and a few grains cayenne. Omit the garlic when using fruit.

FRENCH DRESSING

1/2 teaspoon salt.

1/8 teaspoon pepper.

1/4 teaspoon paprika.

6 tablespoons olive oil.

2 tablespoons vinegar.

Garlic.

PROCESS: Rub the mixing bowl with a bruised clove of garlic; add salt, pepper, paprika and oil; beat until ingredients are thoroughly blended, adding vinegar slowly meanwhile. A piece of ice put into bowl while stirring will aid in chilling the mixture.

CURRANT PIE

2-1/2 cups cleaned currants.

2 cups sugar.

1/8 teaspoon salt.

2 eggs slightly beaten.

2 tablespoons flour.

PROCESS: Mix the ingredients in the order given. Turn in a lined pie pan, heaping currants in center; cover with top crust, press and flute the edges. Bake as other berry pies. Serve hot. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

CHERRY PUNCH

Boil two cups sugar and one cup water until a rich syrup is formed. Add one cup of lemon juice and two cups of Cherry juice, left over when canning cherries. (This left-over juice may be brought to the boiling point, skimmed and turned into sterilized fruit jars, sealed and stored as canned fruit and may be used for punch or pudding sauce.) Add two cups cold water. Fill a claret pitcher with cracked ice; add mixture.

When serving, place a thin slice of orange, three or four strawberries and three pitted California cherries in each gla.s.s, fill three-fourths full with mixture. Serve very cold.