The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-10-22
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Briggs Family
Table Talks
One MIX Made Dish A Day

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Last week Mother Briggs did
some experimenting with her
menu planning. At the end of the
week she concluded from her re-
suits that the simplest way of get
ting adequate amounts of milk "a
quart for each child and at least
pint for every adult in the family
in each days menu was to serve
one milk-made dish.
There are so many food conbin-
atoms with a milk foundation that
Mother Briggs had no difficulty in
providing a different one each day.
Souffle's fondue, cream soups,
vegetables and meats with cream
sauces, cereals cooked in milk,
fruit custards, rice and tapioca
buildings are some of many ways
of utilizing milk in cooking.
Mother Briggs who always liked
to experiment with new recipes
served the following on different
days of this week.
Halibut Baker In Milk
Select two halibut steaks weigh
ing about pound apiece Sprinkle
with salt and roll in flour. Melt a
fourth cup of butter in baking
dish and add the fish. Place several
slices of onion on the fish. Add liz
cupfuls of rich milk. Bake in a hot
oven, 400450 degrees and bake for
80 to 40 minuets. The fish will
absorb most of the milk. Serve
with lemon and garnish with chop
ped parsley.
Cheese Custard
Butter generously a slice OF
bread for each slice with your fav.
orite varitiey of cheese. To three
beaten eggs add one pint Of milk
and a taspoon of salt. Pour this
mixture over the bread and cheese.
Bake in a moderate oven until the
custard is set. Serve Immediately.
Spanish Cream
4 level tbsp. gelatin
Y cold water
" C. sugar
Y tsp. salt
eggs
tsp. vanilla
1 of. milk
Put the gelatin to soak in the
cold water. Add the sugar and salt
to the milk and heat in a double
boiler. Beat the egg yolks and
add gradually the hot milk to
them. Mix well and pour back into
the double boiler. Cook until the
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tard. Add the softened gelatin to
this hot mixture and mix thoroly
before cooling. Beat the whites Of
the eggs until light and fold into
the custard after it has begun to
set. Add 1 tsp. Of vanilla and pour
into individual molds or large mold
previously wet with cold water and
set away to become firm. Serve
with whipped cream.
Preparing For Dots Halloween
The week before Halloween
found Mother Briggs and Dot
spending all of their spare minutes
in the sewing room with orange
and black crepe paper, scissors and
paste fashioning witches, owls,
ghosts and jack-o-lanterns for
Dots Halloween party. The invit-
ations, jack-o-lantern cut-outs with
stems that pulled out revealing the
message, were finally ready to de-
liver by Dot to seven of her
fourth grade playmates. The event
was scheduled for Saturday after
noon. Oct 81 from 400 to 500
o'clock.
A miniature corn field with tiny
golden pumkins, dminutive shocks
Of corn and a comical scarecrow
with heavy brown wrapping paper
edged with row Of bittersweet re-
presented the field. Green or tan
stick candy tied in punches of six
and placed in an upright position
on the tray made the corn shocks
while the PUMPKINS were made
from dried apricots stuffed with a
piece of marshmallow or paste
made from ground raisins and nuts
moistened with bit of lemon
juice. Mother Briggs trimmed bit
Of greenery from her house plants
for the pumkin vines. One of
Billy's small scraggly> dolls dressed
in a SLOUGH hat and a torn coat
made fantastic scarecrow.
The supper menu for the party
in accordance with Mrs. Briggs
principles of meal planning was
simple. She endeavored to carry
out an autumn color scheme in the
menu:
Cheese souffle', Baked potatoes
Buttered Baby Beans Peach pick
les, Finger Toast, Butter, Apple
face salad, Spook cup cakes,
Witches brew Hot chocolate with
an orange marshmallow floating
in it,
Apple-Face Salad
Select medium sized red apples,
preferably Jonathans. Cut in half
and hollow out the inside Of each
half with sharp knife cut the fea-
lures of a jack-o'lantern face In
the apples cases. Drop the apple
cases in cold water to which little
lemon juice has been added to keep
them from turning dark.
Cut UP the remaining part Of the
apple, add chopped celery and q
few broken walnut meats. Combine
with mayonnaise mixed with a
small amount of whipping cream.
Fill the apple cases with this mix
ture and invert on bed Of lettuce
with the apple-face side up. A bit
of grated cheese or carrot around
the top edge gives the effect Of
hair.
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