Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-03-15
TWO DINNER MENUS.


BY Martha MccuIloch Williams.
Here is a 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
as thick as need be. Butter 1t 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 a 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. II tomatoes are at hand. put
one or two, peeled and sliced, In with
the meat. The gravy will be better
and the meat itself more piquant.
Slice peeled potatoes thin, drop in
cold water. drain out, put in a creased
bag after sprinkling very lightly with
salt, add a little extra grease. seal
and cook fifteen to thirty minutes
in q fairly hot oven, the time depend
ing on the quantity in the bag.
Wash the apples well. but do not
peel, cut out specks and bruises, core
AL the bottom Of the core-space with
q lump Of butter. over which Pile
sugar, and add bit Of cinnamon. A
Glove stuck in the side may take the
place of the cinnamon. Seal inside
a well-greased bag, and bake eighteen
to twenty minutes In a fairly hot
oven.
Make cold slaw in the usual way
and the sailed peanuts as follows. AZ
ter blanching and drying them: Put
in a thickly-buttered bag. set in Q
very hot oven for half minute. ther
reduce the heat three-quarters. and
leave nuts TO brown for ten minutes
longer. They viii come out crisp and
beautiful. needing only a sprinklint
of salt.
To make the banana puffs, roll on
good pun paste q quarter-inch thicl
and cut II In squares six inches across
Cover half of each square diagonalll
with bananas sliced thin and soaket
for half an hour In sugar and lemon
bag and bake twelve minutes In no
oven. Bananas, always cheap. ant
among the most nourishing of tn
fruits. ought to be more used In cool
cry.
Here is another good meal for
winter day:
Pork Tenderloin. Roasted with Swee
Potatoes
Cabbage Pudding Steved Carrot
Celery
Apple Dumplings. Cider Sauce
Coffee Cheese Cracker
Have the tenderloins split length
wise and cut them in halves. Wiz
with a clean. damp cloth. rub owe
with butter or dripping, season light
with salt and pepper, and lay in
well-greased bag along with raw swes
potatoes, peeled and halved. or qua
tered II very large. Add a lump {
fat, butter or dripping, rolled in
little -four. also a tablespoonful (
water. Seal bag and cook in a ht
oven thirty-nve minutes to an hou
according to the quantity Of food
the bag. Slack that after Eve minute
Slow, steady cooking makes the mel
tender. yet full Of flavor.
Choose a tender cabbage for Ii
pudding. Shred It fine. then drop
boiling sailed water and cook unco
cred at full boil. ten minutes. Drai
out, run cold water through 1t, the
mix It thoroughly through a pint
milk which has been beaten well wit
two eggs. and season with salt ar
pepper. II the cabbage Is small. III
one egg and half pint Of milk. Ha'
the bag very thickly creased al
sprinkle II inside with grated chees
Put In the mixture by big spoonful
add a lump Of butter and sprinkle
L1oro Cneeso ocl"een eho SpoOnhu
Seal very tigat, lay on trivet, p
in q hot oven for three minutes. tn,
sack, heat. and cook for at least 4
hour. SAT
MAKE real pun p ste for your dun
llngs. roil IT Quarterback thick.
II, neatly around the apples, whit
should be literally treated with sug
and butter. not to name lemon pc
and cinnamon. put in thickly-bJ
tered bag with q small lump of bl
ter and a spoonful Of sugar. and CO..
for twenty to twenty-five minutes
q fairly hot oven.