GOOD THINGS FOR YOUR
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SUMMER TABLE
Warm, not to mention hot weather means that you are on the look-out for tempting, cooling dishes that can be prepared in the minimum of time. Naturally you want to cxercise just as much care in planning your menus as you do in colder weather-but you wish to take advantage of the many summer fraits and vege-" tables and to reduce the hours you wish to take advantage of › the many summer fruits and ve- getables and to reduce the hours you spend in the kitchen. Here "re suggestions for foods, rans. ing all the way from a delectable gummer soup to an enjoyable, but not too rich dessert.
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FRUIT SOUP
cap cherry juice
cup pineapple juier
cup crange Juice
2 tbs, lemon juice
21.tbs, sugar
1
tsp. salt
2 tbs. gelatine
cup cold water
1 cups bolling water
Soak gelatine in cold water and dissolve in boiling water. Add fruit juices, sugar and salt and chill in refrigerator. Before serv ing beat with a fork, then turn into tall thin glasses or bouillon
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VEGETABLE LOAF
This is very easy to make and Is appetizing and nourishing."
Three cups stale bread crumba. 2 cups (about) milk, 3 tablespoons butter, 2 eggs. 1 cup finely chop- ped celery, 1 cup chopped carrot. 1 cup finely chopped nut meats, 1 onion. I teaspoon salt, 3 toi. spoon pepper. 4 tablespoons sifte "ed tomato pulp. 1 tablespoon ca- pers (optional but good),
Let crumbs become dry after measuring. Put into a large mix- ing bowl and pour over milk which has been sealed. Use as much muk as the crumbs will absorb and add butter while the mixture is hot. Stir until butter Is melted and add eggs well bea- en and remaining ingredients. Turn into a well oiled loaf pan and bake in a slow oven until Grm It will take about an hour. Unmold on a hot platter and serve with a tomato sauce mixed with grated cheese. a
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CORN CHOWDER
1 pint mitk
pint boiling water quart potatoes, dive
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SURPRISES
tos, salt pork, Pepper dieed
2 cups com cut from cub" (cook-
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1.on Salt Pepper
Cut the pork into small pieces and chop the onion. Bo the diced potatoes in the pin of boti- ing water for 15 minutes. Fry the.. suit pork and onion for 2 min- utes and add these and the corn to the potatoes.. Cook until the potatoes. Cook until the potatoes are done. Add the milk, season to taste with salt and pepper, and bring the mixture to the boiling point. Serve very hot.
MARVEL PIE
Marvel Lemon Pie package. lemon gelatin
cup sugar
teaspoon salt
Grated rind of two lemons..
12 cups boiling water
2 egg yolks
Juice of two 'lemons
I baked nine-inch pie shell Combine gelatin, sugar, salt and lemon, rind - with 3 tablespoons water. Add egg yolks and stir well. Add remaining water, stir- ring until gelatin is dissolved. Cool. Add lemon juice. Chili. When sightly thickened, turn into cold, ple shell. Chill until arm. Cover with three-minute merin- gue, or top with whipped cream if desired,
Three-Minute Meringue
Put 2 unbeaten egg whites. cup sugar, dash of salt, and 2 tablespoons water in upper part of double boller thoroughly.mixed. Place over rapidly bolling water. and beat 1 minute: then remove from fire, and continue beating 2 minutes longer, or unta mixture will stand in peaks. Add few drops of vanilla er almond extract. Beat well,
Cheese Treats Add Variety To Ordinary Meals
Cheese Pancakes 7 ounces theese 4 pound flour
1 pint milk or cream
4 eggs
Salt and pepper
Beat the eggs with cream or milk and flour, add the cheese and seasoning. Melt a nut of but- ter in a frying pan, and pour the batter into the pan, cooking on both sides.
SERVE CHEESE ROULETTES AT
BUFFET SUPPER
Young girls who want to enter- tain a few of their friends should 106k over buffet recipes: In the first place, more people can be entertained less expensively at a supper where everyone help him- self and, secondly guests have more fun when food decorations are arranged informally.
The prefect budet supper menu should include one · sub- stantial hot dish. an enormous bowl of salad, various relishes. cold roast fowl or a baked ham. iced drinks and and hot rolls or bread that come in the de luxe category Let each guest help himself.
Scrambled eggs. crisp bacon, faney bread or roiis, coffee and a simple dessert make an approp- riate menu for a Sunday night supper. If you want something a bit different in the way of hot bread, try cheese roulettes. They- re easy to make; simple to keep hot and have a festive air about them that greatly adds o à sup- per. The following recipe makes 24040
Bift two cups of cake nour and 2 teaspoons of baking powder and one half terypoon of salt.
Bift agar of butter or
Into the Ar
When all of:
an
sheet, one-eighth of
inch thick and brush with melted butter.
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Spread
of grated cup American sheese evenly over the dough and sprinkle with salt and paprika. Cut the dough into strips, slx by one-halt, inches, roll each strip and place them in greased muftin pans. Or, if you prefer, roll the dough without slicing. as for a jelly roll; cut te three-quarter inch slices and place on greased baking sheet Bake in a hotover (425 degrees F) for about 20 minutes.
A SUMMER EVENING DINNER
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The famous cold
is favoured with tomato and a little piments.
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The sole is cooked in the usual "meuniere" fashion, but, on being: served, is garnished with slices" or quarters "of oranges The usual lemon juice is omitted, and the butter lightly browned and plain poured over the fish,
Consome Madrière. Sole meuniere l'orange, Noisetter d'agneau grillees...
Pommes nouvelles; purée de fèves,
Coupe Mortmorency. The poikettes are served simply grilled.
The potatoes abould be very tiny, and just rolled m butter (no mint, or par
and the broad
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TASTY MAIN COURSES
Summer Additions To The Menu
For those who prefer' poultry to» game, there are always ducks and geese to be had a "Salmi of duck“ is an excellent dish; for this roast the bird with a little diced bacon tar twenty minutes, and then cut it into joints. Make a thick gravy in the roasting-pan. strain this into a saucepan, season well, add- the pieces of duck with some sle ed' shallot and a bunch of herbs. and simmer till the flesh is ten- der. Arrange the duck on a large slice of tried bread. sirain the gravy round after removing the fat and adding a squeeze of lemon juice, and serve garnished with fried bacon rolls.
To come to vegetables, runner beans and vegetable marrows are real Summer products, a la pou- lette make a delicious luncheon or supest dish. Have ready a pint of sliced, cooked, and drained runners beans, and melt an ourice of batter in a clean saucepan. Add the beans to the butter. sprinkle in a teaspoonful of flour. cook for a few minutes, and then stir in about a quarter of a ten- cupful of milk. Simmer for Ave minutes, add an egg yolk beaten up with half a teaspoonful each of cold water and lemon juice. and cook wälle" stirring, but do not boll. Season to taste, and serve surrounded with small triangular-shaped pièces of fried
bread.
As regards frait. ripe plums in plenty are procurable already. This luscious fruit is equally good raw and cooked, and, there are few things more delightful than a plum pasty. Have the top and. bottom crusts both very thin, fil with heaps of plums, plenty of Demerara sugar, and a few small dabs of butter, and bake til just cooked through. Sprinkle with inc white sugar. and serve hot
or cold on the plate on which the pasty is cooked.
Stuffed Eggs
6 ounces cheese
1 ounce butter
Salt and pepper
6 hard boiled eggs
i pint cream Cut the eggs
into halves, length-wise, and remove the yolks. Pass the yolks through a sleve and add the butter, cream... and cheese,
CHICKEN MOLD
1 package
gelatin
lemon flavoured
2 cups boling water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
teaspoon salt
+ cup chopped pimientos
i cup chopped green peppers 14 cups diced cooked chicken Pour water over gelatin mixture and stir until it has dissolved, add lemon juice and salt. Cool. Pourinch layer into shallow mold. When "set" add olives, pimientos and pepper. Add gela- in to cover and let "set." Add rest of ingredients to remaining gelatin and pour into mid, Chill until atif. Unmold on lettuce and serve cut in slices.
ANCHOVY EGGS
12 hard "cooked eggs":
tablespoons, mayonnaise teaspoon salt
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1
teaspoon paprika
2
tablespoons oely chopped pickles.
Cut eggs in halves, remove and mash yolks. Carefully preserve egg white cases. Mix mayon- naise, sensenings and plekies with yolks. Refill egg white cases. Chill. When ready to serve place anchovies on top stuffed eggs and sprinkle with Uttle finely chopped parsley. Use as garnisn for chic- ken mold,
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JELLIED VEGETABLE
SALAD
3 tbsp. gelatine
cup cold water
1 quart canned tomatoes
2 or 3 onion slices
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp, chopped green pepper
2 tbsp. chopped celery
1 tbsp. chopped parsley
1 cup shredded cabbage
Soak the gelatine in cold water 5 minutes. Boil the tomatoes and onion for Snutes, strain through a fine sleve. Pour the hot tomato juice over the soften- ed gelatine and stir until dissolved, Add the salt and sugar and chill, When the gelatine mixture is slightly soft, add the finely chop- ped vegetables and mix well. Add more salt if needed. If the mix- ture is not tart enough add a lit- tle lemon juice or vinegar. Pour into wet custard cups and place
in refrigerator when ready Arrange the whites
of the eggs in a baking dish, all in the centers with the prepared axture, spinkle with grated cheese, place a nut of butter on the top and brown.
Cheese Souffle
pound cheese
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1 ounce flour
pint cream
pint milk
S' eggs Salt.
Mix the yolks of the eggs, the Bour, cream and milk. Cook, stir- ring all the time, then add the cheese and salt and finally the 5 whites of eggs and bake till it rises to twice-Its original size.
Cheese and Potato Cakes 1 ounce our
7 ounces cheese
Salt and pepper 10 potatoes
3 eggs
Cook the potatoes in salted water, after which pass" them through a sieve: add the eggs,... flour and cheese, and season. Al- low to coal, mold into cakes, and fry in butter.
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RHUBARB
A peculiar thing about Rhubarb is that it takes all flavours but gives none. If therefore you have a small quantity of choice fruit to make into felly, you can make twice the quantity of boiling rhubarb with it, and no one will be aware of what you have done when once it is strained. Mlavour simple-hubarb juice with almond - and lemon and it will make a per- fect "apple jelly."ENT
Rhubarb jelly alone can be made by covering the rhubarb in
to serve tum out on crisp lettpee and serve with" mayong aise,
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Mousses,
Mousses
unlike ice creams, need no agitating during the freezing process By proper manipulation before pouring into the freezing trays, they will main- tain that light consistency' which makes them "an 'attractive, addi- tion to the refrigerator des- sert group. Since no agitating is required during the freezing pro- cess, a mcusse can be prepared. placed in the refrigerator and al- lowed to freeze overnight.
Plain mouse makes a delight- ful addition to any Icebox cake or fruit combination. Fresh fruit or canned dessert may be served with plain Mousse in many at tractive ways is's rich dessert and small portions should be served.
Plain. Mousse
1 cup whipping cream
+ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg white
srid
Whip cream. Add sugar vanilla. Fold in stiffly-beaten egg white. Pour into tray and allow to freeze `without agitating. This dessert may be served with chilled crushed fruit. It may also be used for decorating refrigera- tor strawberry shortcake or var- ious icebox cakes.
** Banana Mouse
2 cups Whipping cream.
1 cup bananas, sliced thin
cup sugar."
2 egg whites
1 teaspoons vanilla
a' pan with cold water and sim-⠀⠀⠀ - Pinch of salt 50 mering until all the juice, is ex- tracted. Strain" and allow 1 16: sugar to every breakfastcupful of "Juice, Allow it to boil" ten or twelve minutes or until it appears to be thickening then pour into small jars,
brandy cherries, at the bottom of Med up the cup which is ther with vanilla ice,
very
Whip cream, add vanilla and sugar. Place in refrigerator to chill while bananas are being prepared. "Slice - bananas thin with silver knife. A silver knife will guard against the ba- "nanas turning dark so
Add bananas to cream and bour Into tray or individual cups for freezing."
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