Fifty-two Sunday dinners

Few grains nutmeg. Process: Cook the butter and flour together in a sauce-pan; add gradually hot stock until of the consistency to pour; then add remain- 170 . 5^ Sunday Dinners '''"'"''' Fourth Sunday ing stock, let cook gently twenty minutes. Chop almonds fine, then pound them to a paste, add to first mixture and beat until thoroughly blended. Add hot cream and seasoning. Serve en tasse; sprinkle each portion with finely chopped parsley. ROAST BRACE OF DUCKS Dress and clean a brace (two) young domestic or wild ducks. Truss same as goose. If domestic ducks are used they may be stuffed. In the wild ducks place in each a head of celery; this is thought to improve their flavor. Domestic ducks should always be cooked "well done" and twice as long as wild ducks. Place the ducks on rack in dripping pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover breast and legs with very thin slices of fat salt pork. Place in a hot oven and roast one and one-quarter hours, basting every five minutes (with fat in pan) for the first half hour, afterwards every ten minutes. Domestic ducks require a hotter oven than wild ducks or fowl. When tender, remove string and skewers. Place on hot serving platter, surround with Thorn Apples and serve with Olive sauce. STUFFING 2 cups cracker crumbs. 1 onion finely chopped. 1 cup English walnut meats 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsbroken in small bits. ley. 1 cup thick cream. 3^ teaspoon celery salt. 3^ cup butter. 3^ teaspoon salt. J/g teaspoon black pepper. Process: Crush crackers with the hands, not too fine. Add nut meats, butter melted, cream, onion and parsley; mix well with a fork; add seasonings. If stuffing appears too dry add more cream (a cup of chopped apple or celery may be added). This is sufficient stuffing for one duck. OLIVE SAUCE 4 tablespoons butter. 2 cups Brown Stock. 1 slice onion. 3^ teaspoon salt. 53^ tablespoons flour. 34 teaspoon pepper. 1 dozen olives. Process: Melt butter in sauce-pan, add onion and cook until Fourth Sunday 52 Sunday Dinners 171 delicately browned; remove onion and stir butter until well browned; add flour sifted with seasonings, stir to a smooth paste and continue browning. Add stock gradually, beating constantly. Pare the meat from olive pits, leaving it in one continuous curl. Cover with boiling water and cook six or seven minutes. Drain and add to Sauce. GLAZED SWEET POTATOES Wash and pare six medium-sized sweet potatoes. Parboil ten minutes in boiling salted water; drain and cut lengthwise in halves. Arrange them in a well-buttered granite dripping pan. Make a syrup by boiling one cup sugar with one-half cup water and two tablespoons butter three or four minutes. Dip each piece of potato into syrup and arrange in dripping pan. Bake until potatoes are tender (about forty minutes) basting two or three times with remaining syrup. Oven should not be too hot as these potatoes will scorch easily. "THORN" APPLES