New-York tribune., 1900-12-22
DISHES FOR CHRISTMAS.
BRoILING AND BAKING BY ELECTRICITY
-SHADDOCK SHELLS AND WHAT
TO FILL THEM WITH.

In her lecture Christmas dishes before the
Brooklyn Institute Thursday afternoon. Miss
Helen Louise Johnson suggested the following
menu for the Christmas dinner:
Consonme
Scallops en- brochee, in cream sauce.
Roast goose; apple sauce Cream Of spinach
Cheese souffle. Lettuce salad.
Plum pudding; brandy
Coffee.
ScaIlops en- brochee the speaker said, are simply
broiled scallops To prepare them, them
with cold water which teaspoonful of salt
has been added, and let them stand one-half hour.
Then drain them with boiling salted water
and simmer five minutes. Drain and dry carefully.
String them on skewers with pieces of bacon cut
the same size. Brush them with melted butter.
dust with salt and pepper, and broil over quick
fire. Serve toast with cream Hollandaise
sauce. These. the Hollandaise, plum pudding
and soufle cooked before the class, many
of the audience seeing for the first time baking
and broling done ~ electricity.
The recipe for saUse dollandaise was as follows:
Cream and melt one-half cupful of butter. Add
the unbeaen yolks Of four eegs, one, stirring
them vigorously in double boiler until the
thickens. Add cupful of boiling water, one
tablespoonful Of lemon juice, salt and paper to
taste, and stir until smooth
A goose, Of all birds, the speaker said requires
thorough cooking and should be roasted longer and
basted Oftener than other poultry. For the stuff
ing, potato chestnuts best, a good way
being to use half Of each. This should be seasoned
with salt and pepper and chopped parsley APP
pies sometimes used for filling and thrown
away, their only purpose being absorb the strong
favor of the goose With old goose this is espe-
ciaNy advisable. To make the sauce for the goose
turn all the fat from the roasting pan and put
back into it two tablespoonfuls. Rub smooth in
little water two tablespoonfuls of flour and cook
this in the grease until Drowned. Then add one
pint of boiling water stock and the seasoning.
To cream spinach cook in little water will
keep it from burning. Drain. chop fine and heat
For the grape if fut III sbelg cut @ the shaddock in
halves, and with spoon remove the pulp. Drain
fruits are all delicious Boil together some sugar
and water until it spins light thread; the guam
tity will depend upon the number of shaddocks
juice pour hot over the fruit: allow t to stand
until very cold and IN it into the shells bells
scalded one cupful of milk and added to it one
removed the double boiler from the fire. and added
one eupfui OF cheese cut into nns pieces; ms ms
stove until the cheese melted and the mixture
half cupfui of Soft bread Scrnmbs and salt and
pepper TO taste, all mixed in thoroughly Then
froth, were folded in. the mixture was turned
into creased Tin and baked until light ana Drown.
said. put your ear to it and see If it ticks. When
served al once upoa coming from the oven;
hs One np d seed % %
ful OF currants one cupful each OF snced cltron
and three cupfuis Of soft bread crumbs were mixed
thoroughly To them four eggs were added, one Dy
one, each being mixed thoroughly before the other
put in. Then followed one-half cupful or milk
one-quarter cupful of brandy one teaSpoonful or
cinnamon, one-quarter teaspoonful each OF alspice
cloves and nutmeg and the grated rlna OF one ne
lemon. When these were thoroughly stirred IN
the mixture was filled into a buttered mould
piece of oiled paper covered over the top or
the mould and the cover fitted on The pudding
should steam seven eight hours. II MADE Detore
the day for which II Is wanted II can De warmed
in the steamer before serving Mhen sendlng 10
the table Christmas Day sprfg OF holly should
be stuck into the top and one-quarter eupful OF
heavy brandy poured over the pudding and
set on fire, so that il may enter the dining room
blazing.
A cream sauce for the pudding was made as fol-
lows A cupful OF sugar and one-quarter cupful OF
cooked together until the syrup spun a
thread. The yolks of three eggs were beaten light
and the syrup was poured over them, beating all
spoonfuls of brandy and one teaspoonful of lemon
Juice added, and II was strained. II should
De served Immediately