What to Have for Dinner

Wash one-half cup butter, and add one-half tablespoon, each, red pepper, green pepper and parsley, finely chopped, one-fourth tablespoon onion, finely chopped, one clove of garlic finely chopped and one-half tablespoon lemon juice. Spread one-third of the mixture on the centre of a plank and arrange a border of Duchess Potatoes close to edge of plank, using a pastry bag and tube. Pan broil a Porterhouse Steak, cut one and onehalf inches thick, four minutes, and remove to plank. Spread with remaining butter, and put in a hot oven to finish the cooking. Garnish with three large mushroom caps sautéd in butter. DUCHESS POTATOES. To three cups hot riced potatoes, add three tablespoons butter, one teaspoon salt, and the yolks of three eggs slightly beaten. FRIED TOMATOES AU PARMESAN. Select medium-sized tomatoes and cut in slices crosswise, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and sauté in butter. Arrange each slice on a round of toasted bread, sprinkle with grated cheese, and pile whipped cream on top. 56 What to Have for Dinner. ASPARAGUS SALAD. Arrange cold boiled asparagus in nests of lettuce leaves and serve with CALIFORNIA BOILED DRESSING. Yolks 4 eggs 1 tablespoon lemon juice 8 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons powdered sugar 4 tablespoons vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 1 pint heavy cream Beat yolks of eggs, and add, gradually, four tablespoons olive oil; then add vinegar and lemon juice. Cook over hot water until mixture thickens and cool; then add, gradually, remaining oil, sugar and salt. Just before serving, add cream beaten until stiff. COLD CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING. 1 cup soft stale bread 2 cups milk | crumbs Yolks 3 eggs 14 squares chocolate ® tablespoons butter 1 cup sugar 4 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoon vanilla Add bread, chocolate and sugar to cold milk, reserving one-half cup. Put in double boiler and let cook until a smooth paste is formed. Beat yolks of eggs until light, add reserved milk, butter and salt and stir into hot mixture. Cook until mixture thickens, then add vanilla. Turn into a buttered pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Cool slightly, cover with meringue and bake in a moderate oven eight minutes. Serve very cold. Family Dinners. 59 Beat the whites of three eggs until stiff and add, gradually, one-fourth cup powdered sugar, continuing the beating; then cut and fold in one-fourth cup powdered sugar and add one-half teaspoon vanilla. 58 What to Have for Dinner. Hunger 1s the best seasoning for meat, and thirst for drink.—CIcERO. Cream oF Tomato Sour. Crotrons. BakepD BuveE FisuH, Eae Sauce, BALTIMORE RELISH. Potato SouFrFté£. SHELLED BEANS. HoNnEYcooms PuppING, CREAMY SAUCE. Caré Nor. Family Dinners. 59 CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP. 4 can tomatoes 4 onion 1 teaspoon sugar 2 tablespoons flour } teaspoon soda 1$ teaspoons salt 1 quart milk 4 teaspoon pepper 2% tablespoons butter Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and thicken milk with flour diluted with cold water until thin enough to pour, being careful that the mixture is free from lumps; cook twenty minutes in double boiler, stirring constantly at first. Cook tomatoes with sugar fifteen minutes, add soda, and rub through a sieve; combine mixtures, and strain into tureen, over butter, salt and pepper. BAKED BLUE FISH. Wipe, clean and split fish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, put in dripping pan, and add one-third cup butter melted in three-fourths cup of boiling water. Bake in a hot oven, basting every five minutes with liquor in pan. Serve with Egg Sauce. EGG SAUCE. 4 cup butter Liquor remaining in pan 3 tablespoons flour $ teaspoon salt 1 cup boiling water 4 teaspoon pepper 2 hard boiled eggs, cut in thin slices 4 teaspoon Anchovy essence