Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
Sunday Dinner

Sunday Dinner
Clear soup with tapioca croutons
Shoulder Of mutton brown potatoes carer sauce
Lettuce salad
Waters Cream cheese
Clear Soup with Tapioca.-For this select
the coarse. round tapioca. Wash thorough
ly in cold water, cover with clear, colo
water and soak for one or two hours al
lowing two tablespoonfuls to each quart OF
stock Add this to the stock. Bring to
boiling point and cook until clear. Add a
palatable seasoning of salt and pepper, and
serve at once. This is one of the incest of
clear soups.
Shoulder of Mutton with Drowned Pota-
toes-One shoulder of mutton, six medium
| sized potatoes, one teaspoonful of salt, one
tablespoonful of pepper and two good-sized
onions Wipe the shoulder, place 1t in
baking pan, dust with pepper; put around
it the potatoes peeled. Put in the bottom
of the pan one-half pint of water. Run it
in a quick oven, and when 1t Is nicely
Drowned reduce the heat of the oven to 24o
degrees Fahrenheit. Sprinkle the potatoes
and meat with the SALT cook slowly for one
hour basting frequently with the fat in the
bottom of the pan. When done. dish the
and serve with a brown sauce made in the
pan in which the meat was cooked.
Celery Salad.-Wash and cut the desired
amount of the inner part of the celery into
slices; soak it in cold water for thirty min
utes; drain, and throw it on towel, turn
ing the towel from side to side until the
celery is dry. Put 1t in a salad bowl and
stand it in cold place. At serving time
haste with French dressing. This is great
ly improved by adding few drops of Wor
cestershre sauce, soy, or mushroom catsup.
Favorite Dishes
Goldfish Fritters.-Boil together gently one
pint of pared, quartered raw potatoes and
one pint raw fish for one-half hour. Drain
and mash them together till fine and light.
add butter size of an egg and two eggs we'll
beaten; salt and pepper. Fry in deep fat.
When made correctly these are delicious.
Orange Marmalade.-Six oranges. two
lemons, five quarts of water, eight pounds
of sugar. Remove seeds from oranges anG
lemons cut up and chop fine. Cook two
hours before adding sugar, then simmer
slowly till right consistency. Put in jars or
tumblers and let harden.
Brased Beef.-Four pounds lower cut of
round, one quart can of tomatoes, two on
ions. Put all in earthen crock, covered;
add butter size of an egg. Cook this In the
oven about four hours Take out meat.
Strain onions and tomatoes for vegetables.
Thicker tomato sauce with flour, season
with salt and pepper, and pour over platter
of meat.
Maple Charlotte Russe-Make a sponge
cake as follows: Four eggs, whites and
yolks separated Beat whites stiff, then
take up a little of the whites and beat in
with the yolks. Two cups of sugar added
gradually to beaten yolks one-half cup cold
water, one teaspoonful of vanilla, one heap
ing teaspoonful baking powder. This makes
two loaves. Take pieces of this cake, size
desired, put in dishes ready to serve, and
pour over each whipped cream, sweetened
and favored with mapla bea infp
cream. Scrape sugar fine, and it will easily
beat in. This is an easy dessert and rich
and fine.
Meats
Beef Loaf.-Four pounds of the round
one pint of bread crumbs, two tablespoon
fuls of salt. Chop the meat fine, add all the
ingredients, and mix well; add the eggs un-
beaten. Pack this down into a square
bread pan until it takes the shape of the
pan. Turn it out carefully into creased
baking or roasting pan and bake it in a
moderately quick oven for two hours, bast-
ing every fifteen minutes with a little hot
stock. When done, stand away until per-
fectly cold. Serve, cut in thin slices, with
cream. horseradish or cold tomato sauce.
Masked Chops-Select French chops and
have them neatly trimmed. Have ready
some boiled mashed potatoes, nicely sea-
the chops quickly for five minutes While
they are warm heap the mashed potatoes
into a mound on one side of the lean por-
ton of each. Dip them into a beaten egg,
cover with bread crumbs. and plunge into
hot fat for about two minutes. Decorate
the bones with quilts of paper, heap them
in the center of chop dish, fill the spaces
with nicely cooked peas, and send at once
to the table. This makes an exceedingly
nice luncheon dish.
Lambs Kidneys.-Cut the kidneys into
halves, without really separating them, and
remove the white tubes. Place one on
skewer. Then slice of bacon, and then
another kidney. Basic with butter and
broil for five minutes on a clear fire. Put
over little more butter and send to the
table on hot dish. Pass toast or brown
bread These may be served for breakfast,
lunch supper.
Miscellaneous Dishes
Potato Nests.-Scrub white potatoes clean,
dry, pare and cut into very thin straws; do
not wet; line potato nest fryer SO as to
resemble a birds nest, place the smaller
fryer in this and fry delicate brown in
deep smoking-hot fat; remove center fryer;
tap bottom one lightly. and the nest will
slip out; drain on brown paper. dust with
salt; fill with potato balls, boiled and sea-
soned. The nests must be hot when served.
Oysters on Half Shell.-Butter scaliop