Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Part 26

[Sidenote: _June_

_Third Sunday_]

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CHICKEN CONSOMMe WITH POACHED EGG YOLKS

FRIED PERCH--SAUCE TARTARE

SHREDDED POTATOES ASPARAGUS ON TOAST

LETTUCE WITH CREAM DRESSING

CHERRY ROLY-POLY CHERRY SAUCE

COFFEE

CHICKEN CONSOMMe WITH POACHED EGG YOLKS

Heat six cups of Chicken Consomme to the boiling point. Poach the yolks of six eggs in hot water until firm; remove from water with a skimmer.

Place one yolk in each Bouillon cup and pour on hot consomme. Sprinkle slightly with finely chopped chives or parsley.

FRIED PERCH

Select fresh perch of medium size. Clean, bone and wipe dry as possible.

Sprinkle with salt, pepper, dip in flour, egg, and crumbs (be sure fish are well coated with crumbs). Lay three at a time in a croquette basket and fry a golden brown in deep hot Cottolene. Cottolene should not be so hot as to brown fish at once, as fish will not be cooked through. (Time required for frying small fish is from four to six minutes.) Drain on brown paper and serve with Sauce Tartare. Garnish with parsley, lemon slices and radishes cut to imitate roses.

SAUCE TARTARE

To one cup of Mayonnaise Dressing add one finely chopped shallot, one tablespoon each finely chopped capers, sweet gherkins, olives, and one-half tablespoon each finely chopped parsley and fresh tarragon. Mix well and keep cool until ready to serve.

SHREDDED POTATOES

Wash, pare and cut potatoes in one-eighth inch slices. Cut slices in tiny straws. Wash carefully in cold water until water ceases to be cloudy. Let stand one hour in cold water. Drain and dry on towels. Fry a golden brown in deep hot Cottolene. Drain on brown paper, sprinkle with salt and serve around fried perch.

ASPARAGUS TIPS IN CROUSTADES

Prepare the asparagus in the usual way, cut off the tops one inch in length. Cook in as little boiling salted water as possible. Drain and dress with a Bechamel Sauce. Serve in Bread Croustades (small round, square, or diamond-shaped molds cut through thick slices of bread).

BeCHAMEL SAUCE

4 tablespoons b.u.t.ter.

4 tablespoons flour.

1-1/2 cups highly seasoned chicken stock.

1/2 cup hot thin cream.

Yolk 2 eggs.

Salt, pepper, few grains nutmeg.

PROCESS: Melt b.u.t.ter in a saucepan, add flour, stir to a smooth paste; add stock slowly, stirring constantly; add cream and continue stirring.

Bring to boiling point, remove from range and add egg yolk slightly beaten. Add seasonings. Beat until smooth and glossy. Keep hot over hot water. Do not allow sauce to boil after adding yolk of egg.

LETTUCE WITH CREAM DRESSING

Pick over, wash thoroughly young tender lettuce; cut off the roots and drain. Beat one-half cup heavy cream until solid. Add two tablespoons vinegar diluted with one tablespoon cold water. Add one tablespoon finely chopped chives, one-half teaspoon salt and one-eighth teaspoon pepper. Pour over lettuce, mix well and serve cold.

CHERRY ROLY-POLY

Make a baking powder biscuit dough as for Cream Fruit Rolls. (See Page 180.) Roll to one-half inch thickness. Drain pitted cherries from the juice; strew them over dough, sprinkle with sugar and dredge lightly with flour. Roll like a jelly roll, moisten and press the overlapping edge and close the ends as securely as possible. Bake in a hot oven, twenty-five minutes, basting three times with some of the cherry juice sweetened to taste, or tie loosely in a floured cloth and cook in boiling water two hours, or steam in a steamer one hour. Serve on a hot platter with Cherry Sauce.

CHERRY SAUCE

2 cups pitted cherries.

1 cup claret.

2/3 cup sugar.

1/2 gla.s.s red currant jelly.

Juice 1 lemon.

1/2 dozen Ca.s.sia buds.

PROCESS: Mix the ingredients in the order given, cook slowly until reduced to a syrup. Strain through a sieve and serve hot with Cherry Roly-Poly or Dumplings.

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[Sidenote: _June_

_Fourth Sunday_]

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CREAM OF ASPARAGUS SOUP--CROUTONS

RADISHES GREEN ONIONS

ROAST STUFFED SHOULDER OF LAMB--MINT SAUCE

NEW POTATOES WITH PEAS