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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.
Prepare a tomato sauce; there should be two cups. Strain this while hot through one thickness of cheese cloth into six cups of hot BouillonTomato Bouillon. Reheat and serve in Bouillon cups with CHEESED BUTTER THINS Sprinkle Butter Thins lightly with grated cheese, seasoned with salt and a few grains cayenneCheesed Butter Thins. Place in the oven until crackers are crisp and cheese is melted. BOILED TONGUE Wash and clean the tongue, cover with boiling water, to which add one-third cup each carrots, turnips and onion cut in dice; two sprays each parsley and thyme, one-half teaspoon peppercorns and one-half dozen cloves. Simmer until tongue is tender. Let cool in liquor in which it was cooked, remove the skin and brush with melted butter. Cover with fine, buttered bread crumbs, after arranging in dripping pan. Bake twenty minutes, basting often with hot stock or port wine. Chill and slice thinly; garnish with triangles of buttered toast sprinkled with finely chopped parsley. 98 5^ Sunday Dinners ^TMrd Sunday CHILI SAUCE 2 dozen ripe tomatoes. 1 cup brown sugar. 1 dozen onions finely chopped. 4 cups cider vinegar. 1 dozen peppers finely chopped. 4 tablespoons salt. Process: Scald, peel and chop tomatoes; then add remaining ingredients in the order given. Place on range, bring to boiling point and cook slowly until thick. Add more salt and sugar if necessary. Turn into sterilized fruit jars, seal and store. Serve with meats, fish, etc. POTATO SALAD Cut balls from raw potatoes, using a French vegetable cutter. There should be three cups. Cook potato balls with three slices of onion in boiling salted water until tender. Drain, chill and marinate with French Dressing, then cover with Boiled Dressing. Arrange in a mound on serving platter, surrounded with a border of nasturtium blossoms and leaves. Sprinkle top with finely chopped chives. BOILED SALAD DRESSING 34 cup butter. Yolks 4 eggs. 134 teaspoons salt. 2 tablespoons flour. 1 teaspoon mustard. 34 cup vinegar diluted with 34 teaspoon paprika. 2 tablespoons water. 1 tablespoon sugar. 1 cup cream. Process: Melt butter in sauce-pan; add flour mixed with season- ings, add egg yolks slightly beaten and vinegar and water. Cook over hot water until mixture thickens. Cool. Whip cream and fold into mixture. Beat well, chill and serve with potato salad. BROILED TOMATOES Cut firm, ripe tomatoes in halves, crosswise. Rub each half lightly with a clove of garlic, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and fine, buttered bread crumbs mixed with a tablespoon of sugar. Place in a well-buttered broiler and broil five minutes. Remove care- fully to a well-buttered shallow ramekin, dot over with bits of butter, finish cooking in the oven, and serve. ThL Sunday 5^ S ufiday Dtftners 99 BLUEBERRY PIE Line a deep, perforated pie tin with Plain Paste; brush over with white of egg slightly beaten. Fill with three cups blueberries mixed with one cup sugar, two tablespoons flour, one tablespoon butter cut in bits, one-eighth teaspoon salt, one tablespoon lemon juice. Wet edges, cover with crust, flute the rim and bake thirty-five min- utes in a hot oven at first to set the crust, then reduce the heat and finish baking. CHEESE BALLS Boiled Tongue