Evening star., 1942-10-12

And that is with adequate help to
make for good service. When the
dinner is being handled, without
help. and especially when the man
of the house Is acting as chef, it
seems that eight is about the limit.)
The menu which Roy planned and
prepared was most satisfactory-a
perfect herman menu, but one in
which the ladies joined with relish.
Let me give it to you in a bunch
and then We'll define 1t:
Sherry
Celery CliUes RntU Carrots
Standing Rib Roast
Boston Baked Beans
Sliced Tomatoes
Grape Fruit
There was a choice of beverages,
namely, coffee, Pinot Noir dry red
wine from California and bottled
beer.
Now, in case another group should
want to undertake this setup on an
evening when the mere male o.. the
household wants to do the chef
duties, let's take this menu to pieces.
The sherry and the rabbit food
were served together In the living
room-Roy slipping in and out, as
he was in the throes of bringing
the dinner to completion. Elsie
served the sherry and kept the
guests comfortably seated and under
control. This gave Roy a free hand
at getting the two major factors In
the meal-the standing rib roast and
the pot of beans-into just the right
condition.
Incidentally, the tomatoes. sliced
and cold, were roosting comfortably
in the refrigerator, and the grape
fruit were resting easy in baking
pan filled with ice.
Rows major work was just the
beef and beans. The rib roast was
of course, only a plain roasting job
but Roy provided an innovation
which produced an interesting
flavor. Before the meat went int
the oven 1t had been given
thorough going over with a mixture
OF prepared mustard and sour cur
rant Jelly. This was applied with {
- little wooden paddle, pushed into al
the cracks and crannies of the meat
When beef is roasted after thl
treatment, the sugar which Is II
the Jelly is burned and caramellzee
It makes for q faint touch OF out
door, burned flavor-really very mic
indeed.
Now for the beans They were
masterpiece. To produce such po
of beans in the ancient New Eng
land .. manner would have mean
starting the evening before an
keeping under way all of that day.
Roy provided genuine New Eng
land baked bean, but he took advan
tage of modern production methods
OF course, he had a substitute 10
the bean poland the older 1t Il
the better. But, instead OF PUTIN
In a busy evening and a day c
steady baking, the entire JOB, unde
modern conditions, OF putting tn
pot of beans on the table require
less than Is minutes work and the
about an hours slow heating.
The important thing is to go
market and locate few cans
lars of genuine, oven-baked bean
Remove these beans from the cor
tainers and place them in the bea
not A good idea is to have halt
dozen bits of ham, cut from o
the bone, or a pound of bacon Cur
suced), boiled, Drowned and G.
into walnut size pieces. These a
hidden away among the beans. F.
the pot almost full and then add
the beans couple of tablespoons
molasses and last of all spoonf
Of brown sugar. That done, IN
the oven goes the pot and takes.op
nerfect "home baked" expressit
while the beef is finishing its roas
ing.
They come out of the oven t
rether and 60 to table IN trlur
phant procession. Every sturdy ms
heart beats in high hope, and t
female of the species first smll
coyly and then takes her men'
hair down, as the saying goes, al
does herself proud.
A slice of slightly underdone roe
beef and heaping ACCOMPANYING
of baked beans, plus a side dish
cold. sliced tomatoes, and there o
has a symphony in food and f1aN
Emhr0id