For Luncheon and Supper Guests eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 48 pages of information about For Luncheon and Supper Guests.

For Luncheon and Supper Guests eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 48 pages of information about For Luncheon and Supper Guests.

If Potato and Egg Salad is selected omit bacon and add 1 pound potatoes 2 roots celery or 1 small cabbage 1/2 cup cream, sweet or sour

ROSE APPLES EN SURPRISE

Hard cook
  2 eggs.  Reserve 1/2 yolk.  Chop remainder fine and mix with
  2 tablespoons green pepper chopped
  2 tablespoons pimiento chopped
  4 anchovies chopped
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  Few grains pepper and
  Few drops onion juice.  Moisten with
  Mayonnaise dressing.  Fill
  8 rose apples or small tomatoes from which centers have been removed. 
Cover with mayonnaise and garnish with
  Strips of anchovy, laid crosswise.  Serve each rose apple or tomato on
a small plate sprinkled with
  Chopped parsley mixed with reserved egg yolk, rubbed through a
strainer.

[Illustration:  Rose apples en Surprise]

MOCK LOBSTER A LA NEWBURG

Wipe a
  2 pound haddock, remove skin and bones, sprinkle with
  Salt and steam 20 minutes over boiling water.  Cool and separate in
flakes.  Melt
  1/4 cup butter, add
  1 tablespoon flour mixed with
  3/4 teaspoon salt
  1 teaspoon paprika
  Few grains cayenne and
  Slight grating nutmeg.  Then add
  1/2 cup milk gradually.  Cook and stir until sauce boils. 
Add haddock flakes and
  1 pimiento cut in strips and place over hot water. 
Just before serving add
  2 egg yolks beaten slightly with
  1/2 cup cream and
  2 tablespoons lemon juice.  As soon as it is hot serve in
Timbale cases.

[Illustration:  Mock lobster A la Newburg]

TIMBALE CASES

Sift together
  1/2 cup bread flour
  1/4 teaspoon salt
  1 tablespoon sugar.  Add gradually
  1/2 cup water
  1 egg slightly beaten
  1 tablespoon salad oil.  Strain mixture into a cup and let stand
2 hours or over night.  Put timbale iron in deep saucepan and cover
with fat or oil.  Heat fat until it browns a piece of bread in 40 seconds.

Drain iron, dip in timbale mixture until two-thirds covered.  Then immerse in hot fat and fry until crisp and a delicate brown.  Drain cases on brown paper.  A rosette iron may be used instead of a timbale iron if desired.

CORN MEAL ROLLS

Sift together
  1 1/2 cups bread flour
  1/4 teaspoon soda
  3/4 cup corn meal
  3 teaspoons baking powder
  1 teaspoon salt and
  1 tablespoon sugar.  Cut in
  2 tablespoons shortening with a case knife.  Beat
  1 egg, add
  1/2 cup sour milk and combine mixtures.  Roll 1/2 inch thick, cut with
oval cutter, brush with
  Melted butter, double over and place on greased baking sheet.  Bake
12 minutes at 450 degrees F.

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