Fifty-two Sunday dinners

Process: Cream Cottolene, add gradually one cup sugar, stirring constantly. Beat egg yolks thick and light, add gradually remaining cup of sugar; combine mixtures. Add melted chocolate. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt; add to first mixture alternately with milk. Add nut meats and vanilla, then cut and fold in the whites of eggs beaten stiff. Turn into a well-greased tube pan and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Cool and spread with boiled frosting. January Second Sunday 52 Sunday Dinners 19 (menu CONSOMMIJ WITH EgG BaLLS Celery Olives Breaded Sea Bass — Sauce Tartare Norwegian Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes Cabbage Relish Lemon Pie Cheese Cafe Noir A ^ CONSOMME WITH EGG BALLS To six cups of hot Consomme add egg balls, serving three or four in each portion. EGG BALLS 1 hard cooked egg. Few drops onion juice. 3^8 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon thick cream. Few grains pepper. 34 teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Process: Mash yolk, rub through a sieve, add finely chopped white, seasonings, parsley and cream. Moisten with some of the yolk of a raw egg until of the consistency to handle. Shape with the hands in tiny balls and poach two minutes in boiling water or a little consomme. Remove with skimmer. Serve at once. BREADED SEA BASS Remove the skin from a sea bass, bone and cut fillets in pieces for serving. Rub over with the cut side of a lemon, sprinkle with salt, pepper, dredge with flour. Dip in egg (diluted with two tablespoons cold water) then in fine cracker crumbs; repeat. Place in croquette basket and fry in deep, hot Cottolene. Drain, arrange on hot serving platter. Garnish with Norwegian Potatoes, parsley and slices of lemon. Serve Sauce Tartare in a sauce boat. (For recipe for Sauce Tartare see page 84.) 20 ^2 Sunday Dinners [illustration: page marker] NORWEGIAN POTATOES Wash, scrub and pare six medium size potatoes. Cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain, pass through ricer. Add six anchovies drained from the oil in bottle and cut in one-fourth inch pieces, one-half teaspoon finely chopped parsley, one-half teaspoon French mustard, salt if necessary, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, a few grains nutmeg, two tablespoons butter, and yolks two eggs slightly beaten. Beat thoroughly, place on range and cook slowly three minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from range, spread mixture on plate to cool, then mold like small eggs. Roll in crumbs, egg and crumbs. Arrange in croquette basket and fry a golden brown in deep, hot Cottolene. STEWED TOMATOES To one can of hot tomatoes add two-thirds cup toasted bread crumbs. Season with salt, few drops Tobasco sauce, two tablespoons sugar, and one-fourth cup butter. Heat to boiling point and turn into hot serving dish. CABBAGE RELISH Chop crisp, white cabbage very fine (there should be two cups). Chop one green pepper and one medium-sized Bermuda onion the same. Mix well and season with one teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon black pepper, one teaspoon celery seed and three tablespoons sugar. Dilute one-fourth cup vinegar with two tablespoons cold water; add to relish. Chill and serve in crisp lettuce leaves. LEMON PIE ^ cup sugar. 2 egg yolks slightly beaten. 1 cup boiling water, 4 tablespoons lemon juice. 2 tablespoons cornstarch. Grated rind one lemon. 2 tablespoons flour. 1 teaspoon butter.