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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.
Select small potatoes of uniform size. Wash, pare and parboil in boiling salted water ten minutes. Drain dry and fry a golden brown in deep hot CottoleneFried Whole Potatoes (time required about twelve minutes). Fat should not be hot enough to brown potatoes until the last five minutes of cooking, otherwise potatoes will not be cooked throughout. Drain on brown paper, sprinkle with salt and serve at once. STEAMED GRAHAM PUDDING 3 tablespoons Cottolene. 3^ teaspoon soda. 3^ cup N. O. Molasses. 1 teaspoon salt. Y2 cup milk. }/2, teaspoon cinnamon. 1 egg well beaten. 34 teaspoon cloves. 13^ cups Graham flour. 3^ teaspoon mace. 1 cup dates stoned and cut in piecesSteamed Graham Pudding. Process: Cream Cottolene, add molasses, milk and ^gg. Mix and sift the dry ingredients, add dates and stir into first mixture, beat thoroughly. Turn into a buttered tube mold, cover and steam two and one-half hours. Serve with Sherry Sauce (recipe Page 130). 62 52 Sunday Dinners i^Lsumay Qfrietttt Spanish Soup Baked Halibut Potatoes a l* Aurora Corn Fritters Cabbage Relish Stewed Rhubarb with Pineapple and Raisins Old Fashioned Marble Cake SPANISH SOUP 4 cups Brown Stock. 5 tablespoons flour. 2 cups tomato pulp 2 tablespoons freshly grated 1 large, green, finely chopped horseradish. pepper. 3^ tablespoon Worcestershire 1 medium-sized onion, finely Sauce. chopped. Salt, pepper and cayenne, or 4 tablespoons butter. A few drops Tobasco Sauce. 3^ cup hot cooked riceSpanish Soup. Process: Cook pepper and onion in butter five minutes. Add flour, stir until well blended and delicately browned, then add gradually stock and tomato pulp; let simmer twenty minutes. Rub through a sieve and season highly with salt, pepper, and cayenne or Tobasco. Before serving add Worcestershire, horseradish and rice. BAKED HALIBUT Wipe a two-pound slice of halibut. Arrange six or eight thin slices of fat salt pork in bottom of dripping pan, slice an onion thinly over pork, add a bit of bay leaf and arrange halibut over onion. Spread halibut evenly with a butter paste made of four tablespoons butter worked to a cream with three tablespoons flour. Season with one-half teaspoon salt and a few grains cayenne. Over butter paste F!:lsunicy 5^ Sufiday Dinners 63 sprinkle thickly-buttered cracker crumbs, and arrange alternately strips of pimento and thin slices of bacon over crumbs. Cover with a buttered paper and bake slowly one hour in a moderate oven. Remove paper the last fifteen minutes of cooking to brown the crumbs and bacon dehcately. Remove to hot serving platter and garnish with shredded potatoes, sliced lemon and parsley. POTATOES AURORA Cut cold, boiled potatoes in one-fourth inch cubes. There should be sufficient to fill three cups. Reheat potatoes in two cups of thin white sauce, turn into hot serving dish. Remove the shells from four hard-cooked eggs, cut them in halves crosswise, remove the yolks. Cut whites in rings and arrange rings around edge of po- tatoes; press the yolks through a ricer over potatoes. Sprinkle the rings with finely chopped parsley. Serve at once. CORN FRITTERS 1 can corn, chopped fine. 1 teaspoon sugar. 1 cup flour. 2 teaspoons salt. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 3^ teaspoon white pepper. 2 eggs.