Fifty-two Sunday dinners

Process: Heat water to boiling, season with salt and add rice, onion and green pepper (discarding seeds and veins). Cook until rice is soft; rub through a sieve. Melt butter in a saucepan, add flour, stir to a smooth paste, add cream slowly, stirring constantly. Add seasonings and cook over hot water ten minutes. Combine with rice mixture, continue cooking five minutes. Turn into hot soup tureen and sprinkle over with parsley. FLANK STEAK STUFFED AND BRAISED Select a flank steak weighing about two and one-half pounds. Have the butcher peel off the superfluous fat and tissue and score both sides diagonally in opposite directions. Remove the steak from paper when it comes from market and lay it flat on meat board, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spread over it a thin layer of stuffing, (see Page 154), roll lengthwise, very compactly, sew the overlapping 76 52 Sunday Dinners Fifth Sunday edge securely, also the ends. Sprinkle roll with salt, pepper and dredge with flour. Place meat in pan with enough Cottolene to brown it richly, turning roll until it is richly browned all over. Then remove to Dutch oven or casserole; rinse dripping pan with a little boiling water, pour over meat and surround with two cups stewed and strained tomato pulp, one onion thinly sliced, one green pepper shredded (after removing seeds and veins), two sprays parsley, the half of a small bay leaf and two tablespoons Worcestershire sauce. Cover closely, place in oven and cook meat very slowly about three to four hours. Remove meat to serving platter. Dilute four tablespoons flour with cold water to the consistency to pour, add to sauce in pan, stir until well blended, season with salt and pepper; let simmer ten minutes, then strain around meat. Garnish with sprays of parsley or cress. DANDELION GREENS Remove the roots, carefully pick over (discarding all tough and wilted leaves) and wash dandelion leaves in several waters; to the last water add salt to free leaves from insects and vermin. It will require one peck of leaves to serve a family of six. Cook leaves in plenty of boiling salted water until tender; drain at once and chop fine. Dress with butter and pepper; cut thin slices of bacon in shreds crosswise, try it out and pour over dandelions. (There should be one-third cup bacon fat.) The shreds of bacon are an attractive garnish; hard-cooked eggs may also be used as a garnish. Cut them in eighths or rings. Vinegar is sometimes added. Serve hot. STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE (For recipe see Page 59.) Closures Nothing lovelier can he found In woman, than to study house good. — Milton. 78 52 Sunday Dinners First Sunday (menu Consomme Browned Crackers Lamb Chops Breaded — Maitre d'Hotel Butter New Potatoes Chive Sauce Green Peas June Salad Cherry Pie Iced Tea — Cafe Noir CONSOMME PRINCESS Add to Consomme small green peas and tiny cubes of cold cooked breast of chicken. (For recipe for Consomme see Page 149.) BROWNED CRACKERS Split crackers, arrange them in a dripping pan, place in a moderate oven until crisp and delicately browned. LAMB CHOPS BREADED Prepare loin or French chops as for broiling. Dip in crumbs, egg (diluted with cold water, allowing two tablespoons water to each egg), and in crumbs, and fry in deep hot 'Cottolene six to eight minutes. Drain on brown paper and spread with Mattre d'H6tel Butter.