Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-02-28
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TWO DINNER MENUS.
BY Martha ,MccuiIoch Williams.
Here is dinner menu, easy but
nourishing. not SO costly. and capable
Of being prepared. cooked. and served
inside two. hours:
Roast Beef. Stuffed Rolled Round :.
Sliced Potatoes Baked Apples
Cold Slaw
Banana Puffs
Black Coffee Sailed Peanuts
Have the round cut rather long and
ne thick as need be. Butter it on both
sides. salt and pepper lightly. cover
the upper side with bread crumb stuff
fng seasoned with onion, roll up. tie
and seal in well-greased bag with a
lump Of butter or clarified dripping
and q spoonful of water. Put in a
hot oven for three minutes, slack
heat, and cook until done, allowing
fifteen to twenty minutes to the
pound. If tomatoes are at hand. put
.ono or two, peeled and sliced, In with
tho meat. The gravy will be better
and the meat itself more piquant.
Slice peeled potatoes thin, drop In
sold water, drain out, put in creased
bag after sprinkling very lightly with
salt. add little extra grease, seal
aud cook fifteen to thirty minutes
In > fairly hot oven. the time depend
Ing on the quantity in the bag.
Wash the apples well. but do not
peel, cut out specRs and bruises. core.
I'LL the bottom OF the core-space with
= lump 'of butter, over which pie
sugar, and add a bit Of cinnamon. A
Glove stuck in the side may take the
place of the cinnamon. Seal inside
= well-greased bag, and bake eighteen
to twenty minutes in q fairly hot
oven.
Make cold slaw In the usual way.
and the sailed peanuts as follows, af-
ter. blanching and drying them: Put
in . thickly-buttered bag. set In a
very hot oven for half minute. then
reduce the heat three-quarters. and
leave nuts to brown for ten minutes
longer. They will come out crisp and
beautiful. needing only sprinkling
Of salt. X. a .stf I.
To make the banana puffs roll out
good puff paste quarterback thick
and cut 1t in squares six inches across.
Cover half Of each square diagonally
with bananas sliced thin and soaked
for half an hour in sugar and lemon
bag snd bake twelve minutes In hot
oven. Bananas, always cheap. and
among the most, nourishing Of the
fruits. ought to be more used in cook
cry.
Here is another good meal for
winter day:
Pork Tenderloin, Roasted with Sweet
Potatoes
Cabbage Pudding stewed Carrots
Celery
Apple Dumplings. Cider Sauce
Coffee Cheese Crackers
I Have the tenderloins split length
wise and cut them in halves. Wipe
with clean, damp cloth, rub over
with butter or dripping. season lightly
with salt and pepper, and lay in a
well-greased bag along with raw sweet
potatoes, peeled and halved, or quar-
tered II very large. Add lump Of
lat, butter or dripping, rolled in a
little -four. also tablespoonful OF
water. Seal bag and cook In a hot
oven thirty-five minutes to an hour,
according to the quantity OF food in
the bag. Slack that after five minutes
Slow. steady cooking makes the meat
lender. yet full of favor
Choose. a tender cabbage for the
pudding. Shred 1t fine. then drop in
boiling sailed water and cook uncov-
cred at full boil. ten minutes. Drain
,ut, run cold water through it, then
nix it thoroughly through a pint Of
milk which has been beaten we'll with
;wo eggs. and season with salt and
pepper. II the cabbage is small, use
me egg and half pint Of milk. Have
he bag very .thickly creased and
sprinkle It inside with grated cheese.
Put in the mixture by big spoonfuls,
i'd lump Of butter and sprinkle In
more cheese between the spoonfuls.
Seal very tight, lay on trivet, put
n hot oven for three minutes, then
lack heat, and cook for at least an
lour.
Scrape carrots as usual. cut them
n pieces and put into buttered bag
With half q gill Of stock, dot of
utter. and salt and pepper to taste.
cook thirty-flve to forty-tive minutes
It moderate heat.
Apple dumplings are apple dump
ings In or out of bags. Their good
less depends on three things-the
taste, the maker and the cooking.
rhe apple Is hardly more than a
'ehicle to hold sweets and spices and
.ccent the tang, Of them.
Make real puff paste for your dump
ings. roll it Quarter-inch thick, fit
{ neatly around the apples, which
hould be literally treated with sugar
nd butter, not to name lemon peel
nd cinnamon. put in thickly-but-
cred bag with a small lump Of but
er and spoonful of sugar, and cook
or twenty to twenty-five minutes in
fairly hot oven.
For cider sauce. cream half a cup
4 butter, frothy light. beat into it