The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-26
THANKSGIVING
MENU ARRANGED
BY NOTED Chef
DINNER SUGGESTED IS sUFFi-
GENT FOR FAMILY OF FIVE
COST SHOULD BE UNDER TEN
DOLLARS, NOT CO U Mt I NJ G
LABOR.

Our United States Thanksgiving.
Surely if old Charlie Lamb had known
it in the glory of it's present day task
providing ceremony, he could not but
have admired the man who toiled to
make it possible and the woman who
labored TO accomplish it. The reproof
of Grace Before Meat could never
have been wished on an appetite-in-
dulging world, for the man who can
provide the wherewithal to produce a
modern Thanksgiving dinner and the
woman who has the energy either to
produce it or to cause it to be pro-
duced with the present-day servant
problem and the delicate situation re-
sulting therefrom) are surely deserv-
ling of the marked respect of the un-
Initiated.
Tomorrow will find the average
family of five INDUCING in this mod
est manner at cost of from eight to
ten dollars the meal, counting simply
the cost of the materials. The house
keepers effort is, as usual taken for
granted and not considered as cost.
The following menu, by a noted chef.
prepared for a family of five should
be satisfactory at the above mentioned
money cost.
Celery Hearts.
Preparation: Take off all outside
branches, cut all weedy part from
head wash in very cold water and
split according to size. Serve on ice.
Cream of Asparagus Soup.
Preparation: Melt half a pound of
butter in a saucepan. add two-thirds
cup of flour and cook until well heated
being careful not to let brown. Add
three quarts of soup stock (the house
keeper needs no explanatory and let
boil for half an hour. Add the stems
from one can of asparagus. When we'll
cooked strain, then add a cup of
cream. Garnish with the asparagus
tips and season to taste.
Roast Young Turkey.
An eight pound turkey should be
enough for Thanksgiving and part of
the next day. The old southern style
of roasting, the style that every wom-
an knows, can't be beat. 1t is USE
less to go into detail.
Sweet Potato Dressing.
Preparations: Soak two loaves of
stale bread in cold water until soft.
with salt. pepper, nutmeg, minced and
fried, onion and chopped parsley. Add
half this amount of cold sweet potatoes
previously peeled and cut into small
cubes. When well mixed sprinkle with
melted lard or butter and place in
turkey or bake in separate pan until
Drowned.
Fresh Cranberry Sauce.
Preparation: Place three pounds of
fresh berries in pan with enough wa
ter to moisten, cook slowly until ber-
ries are well cooked. Add three pounds
of sugar you're in hard luck if you
can't get 1t, for Thanksgiving is hard
~ Thanksgiving without cranberries)
and let it boil once more, strain through
collander. Then set aside to cool
This method insures Telling.
Vegetables.
Dreamed Potatoes Sifted Green Peas
The housekeeper would be bored by
a repetition of methods for such IA
miliar stand by's.
Desserts.
The pumpkin pie goes with the
cranberries and turkey as a Thanks
giving Indispensable, but in case the
pumpkin, fresh or canned, is cot vail
able, a quart of ice cream served with
small cakes may be substituted.
Finish the dinner with black coffee
and sailed Florida pecans, and it will
be a successful southern Thanksgiv-
ing dinner, simply prepared and COM
paratively inexpensive.