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TWO DINNER MENUS.
" Martha MccuIIoch Williams.

BY Martha McCulloch 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
as thick as need be. Butter it on both
sides. salt and pepper lightly. cover
the upper side with bread crumb STUFF
fling 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. If 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 CREASED
bag after sprinkling very lightly with
salt, add a little extra grease, seal
and cook fifteen to thirty minutes
in fairly hot oven, the time depend
ing on the quantity in the bag. .
Wash the apples we'll, but do not
peel, cut out specks and bruises, core
fill the bottom Of the core-space with
a lump of butter. over which pie
sugar. and add 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 fairly hot
oven.
Make cold slaw in the usual way,
and tho sailed peanuts as follows, at.
ter blanching and dry!ag them: Put
in a thick:y.buttered bag, set in q
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 a sprinkling
Of salt.
To make the banana puffs. roll out
good puff paste Quarter-inch thick
and cut it 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 and bake twelve minutes in a hoi
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 a
winter day:
Pork Tenderloin, Roasted with Sweet
Potatoes
Cabbage Pudding Stewed Carrots
Celery
Apple Dumplings, Cider Sauce
Coffee Cheese Crackers
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 if very large. Add lump OF
fat, butter or dripping, rolled In a
little -four, also a tablespoonful oil
water. Seal bag and cook in no,
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
tender. yet full of flavor.
Choose tender cabbage for the
pudding. Shred 1t fine, then drop in
boiling sailed water and cook uncov
cred at full boil, ten minutes. Drain
out, run cold water through 1t, Their
mix 1t thoroughly through a pint Of
milk which has been beaten we'll with
two eggs, and season with salt and
pepper. II the cabbage is small, use
one egg and half a pint of milk. Have
the bag very thickly creased ant
sprinkle it inside with grated cheese
Put in the mixture by big spoonfuls
add lump of butter and sprinkle IL
more cheese between the spoonfuls
Seal very tiglt, lay on n trivet, pu
in hot oven for three minutes, ther
slack heat. and cook for at least al
hour.
Make real puff paste for your dump
lings, roll it a quarter.inch thick, fl
it neatly around the apples which
should be literally treated with suga
and butter, not to name lemon pee
and cinnamon, put in a thickly.but
tered bag with a small lump Of but
ter and a spoonful of sugar. and cool
for twenty to twenty-five minutes Il
a fair1v hot oven
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