The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-08
For the Table

Orange saIad-Slice thin one-half
orange per person, arrange on lettuce
leaf, sprinkle with nut meats. Serve
with dressing made of three quarters
cup olive Oil, 0ne-quarter cup vinegar,
salt, cayenne, shaken in jar and chilled
thoroughly
CINNAMON Buns-Two and one-half
cups flour, one teaspoon salt, four tea
spoons baking powder, two tablespoons
shortening, one egg, one-half cup water,
one-halt cup of sugar two teaspoons
cinnamon and four tablespoons seeded
TaiSinS.
Sift two tablespoons of measured
sugar with flour, salt and baking pow
der; rub shortening in lightly; add beat
en- egg to water and add slowly Roll
out oue-half inch thick on Toured board;
brush with melted butter, sprinkle with
sugar, cinnamon and raiSins, Roll as
for jelly roll cut into one and one-half
inch pieces; place with cut edges up
on well-greased pan; sprinkle with
little sugar and cinnamon. Bake in
moderate oven 80 to So minutes remove
from pan at once.
Parker House Rols-Four cups Of
flour, one teaspoon salt. six teaspoons
baking powder, two tablespoons short
ening and one and one-half cups milk.
Sft flour salt and baking powder to-
gether. Add melted shortening to milk
and add slowly to dry ingredients, stir
ring until smooth. Knead lightly on
Nsoured board and roll out one-half inch
lAick. cut with biscuit cutter. Grease
each circle with back of knife one side
of center. Butter the small section
and fold larger part well over the small
Place one inch apart in creased pan.
Allow to stand Is minutes in warm
place. Brush each with melted butter
and bake in moderate oven 10 to 20
minutes.
Eggs au Gratln--For two people, hard
boil four eggs, shell, cut in halves cross
wise and place in baking dish Pour
over them one cup of white sauce
two tablespoons butter, two tablespoons
flour cooked till 1t bubbles and one cup
milk added and cooked until thick. and
sprinkle over with chopped cream
cheese. Place in hot oven tin cheese
is melted and serve at once.
Stuffed FIank-Buy about two pounds
% of flank and have the butcher cut n
pocket in 1t. Take half large loaf OF
stale bread, add salt, pepper, sage and
one small onion; Crumble well and
slightly moisten with water Fill the
pocket with this dressing. sew UP the
opening and place in roasting pan with
one cup OF water. Bake in hot oven
about three hours, basting frequently
with liquor in bottom of pan, adding
more If 1t cooks down. When done. stir
two tablespoons of flour into this liquor
till it bubbles, add cold water and cook
i'll thick. This is a cheap cut Of meat
and delicious baked in this manner.
This will serve four.
Dreamed Tuna Fish with PImentos
on Toast.-Make a white sauce OF two
cups OF milk. two tablespoons Of flour.
one tablespoon of butter. salt and pep
per to taste Add to IL the contents Of
one-half pound can Of Tuna fish and
one-h half small can of red pmentos.
chopped fine. Reheat and serve on
huttered toast This amount will serve
-four or five,
Fruit Saiad.-Take three tart apples
two large oranges three bananas and
one-half can pineapple (about six
slices). cut all into small pieces and
mix adding a little sugar and set away
10 chill. Serve on crisp head lettuce
on individual salad plates with mayon-
naise dressing topped with chopped wal
nuts.