Fifty-two Sunday dinners

Cut two pounds of veal from the leg in one-inch cubes. Add a fourth-inch thick slice of salt pork, cut in very small cubes. Cover with boiling water. Add one small carrot sliced, one stalk celery broken in pieces, and two slices onion. When half done add onehalf tablespoon salt. Cook until meat is tender. Remove the meat and strain the broth; thicken broth with flour diluted with cold water. Put meat into a baking dish and pour over enough of the thickened broth to barely cover the meat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Make a soft dough by mixing and sifting one and one-half cups pastry flour, one-half teaspoon salt, two and one-half teaspoons baking powder; rub in three tablespoons Cottolene with tips of fingers, then add milk enough to make a soft dough and drop by tablespoonfuls upon meat — (dumplings should set upon the meat and not sink into gravy) close together to cover the surface. Bake thirty minutes in a hot oven. Serve remaining gravy in a sauceboat. BUTTERED BEETS Wash and scrub beets with a vegetable brush, being careful not to break the skin. Cook in boiling water to cover (about an hour 144 52 Sunday Dinners '''''''' Fourth Sunday for small young beets, and old beets until tender). Drain and rub off the skins at once; slice, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dot over with bits of butter. Serve hot. BAKED SQUASH Cut Hubbard squash in pieces for serving. Remove seeds and stringy portion. Put one-half teaspoon molasses in each portion and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake in a hot oven until tender. Put a piece of butter on each portion and serve in the shell. STUFFED TOMATO SALAD Select six smooth, ripe tomatoes. Scald quickly and remove skins. Cut a slice from stem ends, scoop out pulp and chill tomato cups. Drain the pulp and add an equal quantity of crisp celery cut in small pieces, cucumber cut in small dice, and shrimp broken in four pieces. Moisten with Mayonnaise Dressing. Refill tomato cups, put a rose of Mayonnaise on top of each, using pastry bag and rose tube. Serve in lettuce heart leaves. MOCK CHERRY PIE Mix one and one-half cups cranberries chopped moderately, three-fourths cup seeded and shredded raisins, one cup sugar, one tablespoon flour and a sprinkle of salt. Pile this mixture in a pie pan lined with Plain Paste. Dot over with one tablespoon butter. Add two tablespoons orange juice. Cover with Rich Paste and bake as other pies. oye//^/j&/' ^. An odor rich comes stealings From out the oven bright^ That sets my pulse a-reeling, And gives my heart delight. 146 52 Sunday Dinners ^-""X Qfftenu Oysters on the Half Shell Consomme Duchess — Imperial Sticks Cucumber Pickles Celery Rolled Rib Roast of Beef — Brown Gravy Franconia Potatoes Baked Tomatoes Spiced Crab Apples EscAROLLE Salad Graham Plum Pudding with Brown Sugar Sauce v^HEESE Coffee CONSOMME DUCHESS (For recipe see Page 15.) ROLLED RIB ROAST OF BEEF