San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
Table alks
Dinner Menu
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Spinach Souffle.
Baked Potatoes.
Combination Salad.
Sliced Oranges.
Fruit Cake.
BY Alice Irwin

IL Is none too soon to begin the
Preparations for our Thanksgiving
dinner by making fruit cake. l have
been testing fruit cake recipes for a
number Of years and will give here in
detail directions for preparing the one
which / consider the most success
full.
ENGLISH FRUIT CAKE.
l pound seeded raisins.
i pound currants.
ounces candied orange peel.
= ounces candied lemon peel.
IL pound citron.
cups flour.
l IL teaspoons cinnamon.
IL teaspoon mace.
| teaspoon allspice.
IL cup candied cherries or other
candied fruit.
Juice of l lemon.
IL cup orange juice.
IL pound butter.
l cup sugar.
9 eggs.
l teaspoon nutmeg.
"a teaspoon salt.
Almonds, maraschino and mint cher
ries for garnish.
Wash the raisins and currants:
drain well. then dry them on a towel.
Put the raisins. candied orange and
Iemond peel through food chopper.
Cut the citron into very thin slices.
Mix the flour, salt and spices. Add
the currants to the raisin mixture
Then through a sitter add the flour
mixture to the, fruit mixture.
Cream the butter, add the sugar.
Separate the eggs and beat the yolks.
Add the yolks to the butter and sugar
and mix well. Then add the fruit
and flour mixture. The candied fruit
and fruit juices. Mix thoroughly.
Beat the egg whites until stiff. Then
cut and fold the egg whites into the
fruit mixture. The resulting mixture
contains all the ingredients of the
cake except the citron and materials
for garnishing, and is ready to be
placed in the pans. This material
when baked weighs about 5 IL
pounds. 1t may be baked in one large
tube cake pan or in two or more loaf
cake pans. Line the pans with paper
90 that the cake may be easily removed
after it is baked. Grease the paper
lined pan. Now put halfinch layer
OF dough in the pan and spread evenly
with n layer of citron. Add another
layer of dough and citron; repeat until
oil the materials are used, having
dough for the top layer. On the top
Of the cake arrange whole blanched
almonds and red and green cherries in
a conventional flower or other at
tractive design. Bake in q slow oven
$3.50 degrees 4 or 5 hours, according
10 size Of pan used.
Remove from the oven. let stand for
q few minutes, then remove the cake
from the pan. Let stand on a cake
cooler until cool. Then store in n
tightly covered tin box. For serving,
cut the cake into thin slices.
PLANKED BEEFSTEAK.
Broil q 1 IL inch thick steak
quickly and but six minutes. Place
It in the center of an oval hardwood
plank, pipe around the edge border
of mashed potatoes, brush it with
beaten egg yolk mixed with n little
milk, put cooked peas, string beans
and button onions at intervals in
side the potato border, and put the
plank in very hot oven or under
the broiler until potatoes are brown,
about six or eight minutes. Dust
steak with salt and pepper. dot with
butter, arrange stuffed mushrooms or
tomatoes already cooked along the
center or place Swedish timbaIc cases
filled with crcamed carrots and peas
on the steak and send to the table
on the plank. The plank may be
placed on a silver tray or platter.
To make Swedish timbales it il
essential TO have an iron especially
designed for this purpose. This is the
halter.