The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1912-02-16
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SPECIAL FAMILY DINNER.

BY Martha Mcculioeh Williams.
The following menu Is suitable fol
q paper bag cooked dinner. to BE-
served during winter months, wher
the occasion is more than ordinary
say on national holiday, or some
special family or community event:
Blue Fish or Sea Trout, Planked
Sliced Potatoes Buttered Beets
y. Cold Slaw
Baron of Beef, Roasted
Baked Squash Celery Satisfy stewed
Cold Baked Apples with Rum
and Sugar
Romano Salad with Cheese Balls.
Sharp French Dressing Biscuit
Plum Pudding, Brandy Sauce
Nut Candy Stuffed Dates
Homemade Citron
The fish will require a plank, oak
of course. and proportioned to the
size of the biggest paper bag. Gel
it as thin as possible-half an inch
say. Scour it well, then grease with
oil or butter, heat gently and wipe of
all surplus grease while still warm
This before undertaking to use it. II
must be heated very hot underneath
the gas fame before the fish goes
on it. Sprinkle rock salt thickly ovel
it to prevent charring, dash it of
and grease very thickly, then lay
upon it your fish, opened fiat, sea
soned, and well-greased all over the
skin side. Season it on top with salt
black and red pepper, few toasted
bread crumbs or little grated
cheese, thin slices of onion and raw
peeled tomatoes. Lacking fresh to
matoes, put on little tomato catsup
Squeeze lemon juice over all and dol
plentifully with butter. Flatten. well
on the plank, then slip plank and fish
inside thickly-buttered bag and cool
in a hot oven fifteen to twenty min
utes, according to the thickness Of
the fish.
The beef baron-the double sirloin
needs only to be roasted in bag
after greasing it very we'll all over
Do not salt it. Roast according to
weight-f1fteen minutes to the pound
for rare meat, twenty for well done
Make sliced potatoes as previously
directed, also cold slaw. Beets should
be boiled quickly, putting them on
in cold water, peeled as soon as done
and buttered while still very hot. Sea
son with salt and pepper, also dash
of either vinegar or lemon Juice
Baked squash has been exploited
stewed satisfy likewise.
Serve the cold baked apples as a
sort of sorbet-a course to them.
selves. Peel and bake the apples in
buttered bag, with a teaspoonful OF
sugar to each apple. Put in the serv.
ing dish, and while still very, hot
pour over desertspoonful Of rum
to the apple. Let cool and serve with
wafer-biscuit toasted very crisp.
For the salad, break crisp romaine
in two.inch bits, make a very sharp
French dressing, putting in a little
lemon juice with the vinegar, adding
salt, celery salt, onion Juice, Wor.
cester sauce, black and red pepper,
and mere suspicion of mustard.
Sour claret make take the place OF
vinegar and lemon juice-you must
aim at very piquant flavor to give
a tang to the mild cheese balls and
biscuit. Shape the balls with butter
moulds from cream cheese softened
with either little oil or sweet cream
Roll them in finely ground nuts and
stick tiny sprig of parsley in each
Make very small biscuit to go with
them, and bake so they may come to
table very, very hot.
Plum pudding should be in hand
heat it well either over hot water OF
inside bag.
For the nut candy, use either black
walnuts, scaly barks or pecans-1
give them in the order Of preference
A mixture of all three is not so bad
but the crisp richness Of fresh black
walnut goodies appeals most to my
taste. Crack the nuts and pick out
the kernels in as big pieces as pos
Sible. Be careful not to let bits 81
shell fall among the meats. Measure
them after picking out, for each heap
ing cup of nuts take a level cup OF
soft sugar and half a cup Of water
Cook sugar and water together till
it ropes from the spoon. Have the
nuts in round, rather shallow vessel
well creased. Pour the hot syrup up
on them and stir about until the candy
hardens around the kernels.
Make your own stuffed dates. Picl
out the largest, hrmest fruit, WASH
quickly in cold water, drain. and take
out the seed. Stick into the cut side
either q nut. q bit Of .crystallized gin
ger. a little candied peel. or bit 3,
citron. Roll in confectioner's sugar
and lay in cry lightly-greased bag
left open at the end, In q cool over
to harden. Drain strips Of citron from
their syrup. -oll in sugar and dry Of
the same way.
The country-bred may like to hav,
either squash FOR pumpkin served i.
q vegetable. Peel, cut up, bake lot
and mash, hen season well with. salt
. little PEPPER and q tiny BIT of onioI
|sjuice. Make 81 i oaks ana lay fne,
paper bag mould % 3 wsllhutt srSl