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Fifty-two Sunday dinners

1913

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Presented as published in 1913. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Process: Mix and sift the dry ingredients in the order given; rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers; add beaten egg to milk and add slowly to first mixture stirring constantly, then beat until dough is smooth. Spread dough evenly in a shallow, square layer cake pan to the depth of one inch. Core, pare and cut apples in eighths, lay them in parallel rows on top of dough, pressing the sharp edge into the dough half the depth of apples. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over top. Bake in hot oven twenty-five to thirty minutes. Serve hot with butter as a luncheon dish, or as a dessert for dinner with Lemon Sauce. LEMON SAUCE 2 teaspoons arrowroot. Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon. 1 cup sugar. 1 tablespoon butter. 2 cups boiling water. Few grains saltLemon Sauce. Process: Mix arrowroot, sugar and salt, pour on boiling water slowly, stirring constantly. Cook over hot water twenty minutes, stirring constantly the first five minutes, afterwards occasionally. Remove from range. Add lemon juice, rind, and butter in small bits. Beat well and serve hot. 38 52 Sunday Dinners ""'""'" Third Sunday (m Scotch Potato Soup Roast Shoulder of Pork Spiced Apple Sauce Erin Potatoes Boiled White Beans Celery Salad Squash Pie Neufchatel Cheese Coffee H — 1- SCOTCH POTATO SOUP 1 bunch leeks or 2 cups onion. 3 cups potato cubes. 1 head celery. 2 tablespoons flour. 5 tablespoons butter. 3^ tablespoon finely chopped 1 quart milk. parsley. Salt, pepper. Process: Cut leeks and celery in thin slices crosswise and saute in two tablespoons butter eight minutes (without browning), stirring constantly. Turn milk into double boiler, add leeks and celery; cover and cook until vegetables are tender (about forty-five minutes). Parboil potato cubes in boiling salted water ten minutes. Melt remaining butter in a sauce-pan, add flour, stir to a smooth paste, remove from range and pour on slowly some of the milk until mix- ture is of the consistency to pour. Combine mixtures, add season- ings, and cook in double boiler until potatoes are tender. Turn into hot soup tureen and sprinkle with parsley. ROAST SHOULDER OF PORK Have meat cut from "little pig." Wipe and follow directions for roasting Loin of Pork. (See Page 173.) SPICED APPLE SAUCE Wipe, pare and core six or eight tart apples. Place them in sauce-pan, add just enough water to prevent burning; add three or _ ^ Third Sunday February ^^ Sufiduy Dtnmrs 39 four cloves and half a dozen Cassia buds. Cook to a mush. Pass through a sieve; return to sauce-pan, add three-fourths cup sugar and cook five minutes, stirring constantly. Cool and serve. ERIN POTATOES Remove seeds and veins and parboil one mild green pepper eight minutes. Chop fine, add to Mashed Potatoes. BOILED WHITE BEANS Pick over and wash two cups white beans; cover with two quarts cold water and let soak overnight; drain and place them in a stew-pan, cover with two quarts cold water, add one small carrot cut in quarters, one medium-sized onion cut in half, two sprays parsley and one- quarter pound of lean salt pork, one-half tablespoon saltBean Stew; cover and cook slowly until beans are tender (about two hours). Remove vegetables, drain beans. Chop the pork and mix with beans. CELERY SALAD Celery Salad