The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14

sliced bacon. two onions and cook IS
minutes Then add salt and pepper
Put the chipolita in saucepan with
the onions and cook four minutes.
Add a quarter of A pound or sliced
cold beef and heat.
Beefsteak pie Is a homely dish, but
when well made Il is wholesome and
appetizing. A famous recipe for max
ing 1t is the following: First line a
baking dish with plain paste. then par
boil four medium sized potatoes for
about 10 minutes and drain. Take
four cups OF cold cooked meat cut into
dice and begin filing the dish by
placing a layer OF meat on the bot
tom. then a layer Of potatoes, and next
some mushrooms. Sprinkle over this
salt and pepper. Add more meat, pO-
tatoes. mushrooms. etc. and continue
with the filing and the seasoning until
the dish is full. Roll out some paste
and place this over the top OF the dish.
making a small hole IN the center
through which the end OF funnel can
be thrust so that two cups OF brown
gravy may be added TO the pie after II
Is baked. It requires about three
quarters OF an hour steady baking Tor
a pie OF this size.
To make scalloped fish melt a table,
spoonful OF butter. add an equal
amount OF -four and stir Then pour
into this one cup Of milk and stir again
until IL IS thick and smooth Add one
teaspoonful OF salt. two dashss OK
mace, one teaspoonful or chopped pars-
lev aad two cups OF cold cooked hsh
picked apart Place all in a deep bak-
ing dish, spread the top with crumbs
and brown IN the oven 20 minutes.
A sweet potato border adds 70 the de-
licIousness Of this dish. 1t Is made by
boiling four large sweet potatoes until
tender, peeIing and MASKING them. add
frfl ~
OF butter and enough hot milk 20 make
them creamy. Place on the edge OF the
dish IN which the ash is to be seal
loped and brown all together
From a contributor come the recipes
given below;
Chopped Meat in Peppers-Take two
cupfuls OF chopped cooked meat ana
mix with half a pound OF sausage
meat; add half a cupful OF boiled rice,
a tablespoonful OF paprika, one egg and
stir together. Then cut or the tops
Of three green peppers scoop out the
center and Ill with the mixture. Moid
what is left over into balls. Put a
can OF tomatoes with the balls and
the peppers in a saucepan and boil
until the peppers are tender. Arrange
them IN a deep, open dish. the peppers
in the center. meat balls around them.
and then pour over all the tomato
sauce.
Fish salad will utilize left over bits
of fish In a wholesome and economical
way. Fish that has been baked. fried
or boiled will do equally well. Flake
It, remove all bones and skin and heap
IN a deep dish OF salad bowl which
has been lined with crisp lettuce leaves.
Pour first a thin dressing over the hsh.
then cover with a rich mayonnaise.
Serve when quite cold.
To make vegetable salad use any OF
the cold vegetables that have been
served for dinner the night before
peas, beans, lima beans, corn cauh-
flower, beets, celery and asparagus are
all satisfactory ingredients. Mix them
together. Serve in whole tomatoes. II
they can be found. and, II not, use
a salad bowl Line the dish with crisp
lettuce leaves. fill with the vegetables
well mixed together. add vinegar. salt
and pepper and set away to chill thor
oughly. Just before serving pour thick
mayonnaise over the top.