The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-20
I'm THE MARKETS.
Another Menu for Little Family Sun
day Dinner.

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so large as they are in cooler weather.
There was, however. enough TO enable any
one in search of something good to eat to
find more than could be desired to make
up good Sunday dinner. The meats Of
fered were very tempting, there was a good
assortment Of fish, and the greengrocers
had everything that is new in the way Of
vegetables and fruit.
Thinking that the publication OF menu
for Sunday dinner for small famlly
would again prove acceptable to the read
ers of this column. the market reporter
epicurean friend. who Is crank on the
subject of something good for the taDle,
has prepared another bill Tor fanny uln-
ner, and il is here reproduced:
FAMILY DINNER BILL OF FARE
o1-tai soup
Sliced salmon, brOiled, caper sauce
scanop Of veal
Roast shoulder OF lamb stuffed.
stewed cucumber. Baked potatoes.
Pancake with aprlcots.
Fruit. Small cakes Coffee or Tea.
This bill of fare, like the one given last
week, is not an expensive one. 10 make OK
tail soup enough for eight persons there
is required two OK tails, two slices OF ham,
an ounce of butter, two medium-slZed car
rots, two medium-sZed turniDs, three fair
sized onions, one leeK, one head Of celery,
bunch of savory herbs, a bay leaf or lwo
about dozen whole peppers, hall dozen
whole cloves, a little ketchup, wneglass
OF port wine and about three quarts Of
water. You separate the tails at
the joints, wash them well and put
them in a stewpan with the butter. Cut
the vegetables into thin slices and add
them with the peppers, bay leaf and sweet
herbs. Put in half pint OF water and
place the pan over hot fire until the juices
are drawn. stirring the whole in the mean
While. Then put In the balance OF the
water and when it boilS add salt TO taste
skim we'll and let the whole simmer very
gently for four hours. or until the tails are
tender, then take them cut. skim and strain
the soup. thicken with little flour, and add
the port wine ana ketchup. Put the tails
in the soup again, simmer about five min
utes and serve.
The fish is not difficult to prepare. Take
as many slices OF salmon as you require,
broil them over brisk fire and when they
are done place them on a hot dish, rub each
with mixture of butter, shalOt and pars-
ley chopped very fine, salt, pepper and
little grated nutmeg. Then pour over the
fish some ordinary caper sauce and seud 10
the table.
To make the scallop OF veal you take the
remains of cold roast veal strip the skin
from ii and cut into thin slices. Warm them
IN as much white sauce as Will cover them,
and when warm send to table, the dish being
garnisbed with slices of boiled ham or small
pieces Of toasted bacon.
The next thing on the list is the shoulder
OF lamb You have the butcher take out
the blade bone outof a shoulder of lamb and
I'LL the space with forcemeat according to
taste, then sew the opening with coarse
| thread. Put ii in a baking-pan with few
slices of bacon. an onion OF two placed
under the meat, and let it bake until done.
Basic frequently. The force meat Is i'm
proved by adding TO Ii little savory herbs,
which adds delicate flavor to the meat.
Siewed cucumber is the next on the bill.
L on cut large cucumbers lengthWise after
they have been peeled, remove the seeds
and then put them in boiling water with
little salt for i've minutes. Take them out
place them In another stewpsn with half
put OF SOUP stock and meat gravy mixed
let them boil over brisk fire until tender,
then add a lump of sugar. Remove the
cucumbers. carefully place on a dish,
thlcken the gravy with flour, pour over the
cucGmbers and serve with the shoulder of
lamb and the baked potatoes.
To make your pancakes you take 70 ur
eggs, four ounces of butter. four ounces of
Suited sugar. four ounces Of sfted -four and
pint OF milk. Beat the eggs thoroughly,
and put them into basin with the butter
and beat to cream. then stir in tile sugar
and flour, and when these ingredients are
we'll mixed, add the milk, keep stirring and
beating the mixture for a few minutes
Have ready buttered plates and pour the
mixture on them. Place in quick oven
TIL done; put some apricot jam on each
pancake, roll aud send 10 table with a little
sugar sprlnkled over them.
As 10 the rest OF the dinner, il Is not
necessary To give any directions