Evening star., 1943-01-04

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The little club of four couples,
or Cooks Thursday Night Out Clul
dinner meeting last Thursday night
and pans. As the four men gain in
Improvement in their culinary skill,
. further challenge to their ingenui
strip sirloin steaks. This time, the
menu featured:
Mussels
Grtlled Kidneys on Curry Toast
Hdshed-tn-Cream Potatoes
Campfire Onions
A Salad OF Field Greens
Chocolate Ice Cream Pie
Coffee
Here are the recipes Roy used,
frst. the mussels:
These dainty shellfish should be
better known. They are plentiful
along both the Atlantic and Pacific
Coasts and any good sea food dealer
can order them. They look much
like clans painted a blue black
that is, the shell is dark. Allow a
dozen musSels per person and when
they arrive put them to soak in
fresh water so the sand is dis
charged. Rinse well. Then scrub
thoroughly and remove the weed. !"
Then soak in more fresh water and
rinse again.
Half an hour before they are to be
served. have ready a sauce made
like this:
Heat two heaping tablespoons Of
butter and add a minced onion, a
green pepper chopped very fine, a
tablespoon of minced parsley, pepper
and salt. When this mixture has
been sauteed until peppers are ten
der, add tablespoonful of lemon
Juice. Now place the well washed
mussels in kettle, pour two cups OF
boiling water over them, then pour
The sauce over them. Cover with a
tight lid and steam for 20 minutes,
or until the mussel shells are open.
To serve. place dozen mussels in a
soup plate per person, pour some of
the sauce over each portion and
the idea is to eat them with oyster
forks, right from the shell, dunk
ing" all the sauce with French
bread or eating it with spoon. Gf
you like, you can remove the mussels
and then thicken the sauce slightly
with a little flour-but this is entire
ly optional. Also, If you are hardy
couls, include some minced garlic
when making the sauce. Again this
garlic detail Is in your own hands
Joy be the consequence
The grilled kidneys on curry toast
are lovely and nourishing. First pre-
pare the curry butter, rubbing (for
eight servings) 2 tablespoons Of
curry powder together with a half
cup Of butter-more curry powder
If you are fond OF curry. The curry
butter may be prepared well In ad-
vance and set aside.
Kidneys Qamb preferred), are
soaked in water, split and skinned,
then grilled or broiled. AS they are
oroiling, make 8 slices OF toast, trim
off the edges, cover lightly with
curry butter, place one or, If you like,
two grilled kidneys on each slice,
top of with plenty Of pepper and a
bit Of salt-and serve at once very,
very hot.
Campfire onions may cause you
to ponder, but they are easy to pre-
pare and provide an onion rising to
the nth power. For eight servings,
.ake good sized onions and wipe
clean. Then have ready a one
gallon tin can with q lid or an iron
kettle with tight cover. In the
bottom place ordinary sand like that
from the small child's sand pile. Then
plant the onions to make one layer.
Cover with more sand. Then another
layer of onions. Then more sand and
80 on. with a good layer Of sand
over the top. Put these into q hot
oven three hours before dinner and
let them enjoy themselves. When
they are wanted, dump the onions
and sand into a shallow pan, take
each onion firmly in the left hand,
snip off the bottom with a sharp
knife, give the onion a squeeze and
listen to the clean inner section 60
"pfutt' but don't let 1t escape. In
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grilled kidney and rush this master
piece to the table. What an onion
the guests do their own sailing and
peppering!
Chocolate ice cream pie is a mans
dessert. Bake, earlier in the day or
order from the Women's Exchange,
eight small, individual pie shells.
When it is time for dessert, send
down to the trusty corner store for
enough ice cream to flll each shell
nicely-top off with chocolate sauce
and there you are. Or, if you pre-
fer, use pineapple. strawberries or
any other form Of fruit topping. This
Is an excellent dessert and doesn't
take the male chefs mind of of his