What to Have for Dinner

Select a small heavy white cabbage, take off outside leaves, and cut cabbage in quarters. Slice one-half as thinly as possible, using a sharp knife. Soak in cold or iced water until crisp, drain, and dry between towels. Arrange on ‘a bed of water cress and cover with one small onion thinly sliced and separated into rings. Pour over a French Dressing, to which a few drops onion juice are added, and garnish with rings of red and green peppers. PAN BROILED MUTTON CHOPS, SAUCE SOUBISE. Pan broil mutton chops and serve with Sauce Soubise. SAUCE SOUBISE. Peel and slice twelve small mild onions and cook in boiling salted water until very soft. Drain and press out all water that is possible, then rub through a sieve; there should be one cup onion purée. Melt two tablespoons butter, add three tablespoons flour and pour on gradually, while stirring constantly, one cup milk. Season with salt, pepper and cayenne, and add onion purée. — Family Dinners. 23 Pour in centre of hot chop dish, and surround with Pan Broiled Mutton Chops. PARISIAN POTATOES. Wash and pare eight small potatoes and soak in cold water, one-half hour. Parboil i in boiling salted water to cover, fifteen minutes. Drain and place in dripping pan, and bake until soft, basting three times during the cooking with one-third cup of melted butter. CREAMED CARROTS. Wash and scrape carrots and cut in one-third cubes; there should be two cups. Cook in boiling salted water, drain, and add one cup White Sauce. 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup scalded milk 24 tablespoons flour 4 teaspoon pepper } teaspoon salt Put butter in sauce pan and stir until melted and bubbling, add the flour and seasonings and cook one minute. Pour on gradually, while stirring constantly, the hot milk. Beat until smooth and glossy, using a wire whisk. PRINCESS PUDDING. Yolks 3 eggs # tablespoon granulated gel- 4 cup sugar atine dissolved in Grated rind 4 lemon 8 tablespoons boiling water 2 tablespoons lemon juice Whites 3 eggs Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, 24 What to Have for Dinner. and add sugar gradually, while beating constantly ; then add grated rind of lemon, lemon juice and dissolved gelatine. As soon as mixture begins to thicken, cut and fold: in whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Mould, chill and serve with whipped cream. Family Dinners. 25 The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek sauce by sweating —HoRaceg. Carrot Soup. BRAISED BEEF. BortED PoTATOES WITH BUTTER AND PARSLEY. Frirep PARsNIPs. | Onion Sourrif Sprcep ApPLEs A LA LYMAN. Car& Nore. 26 What to Have for Dinner. CARROT SOUP. 2 cups carrot, cut in slices 1 quart chicken stock 4 cup onion, cut in slices 2 cups milk 3 tablespoons butter 14 teaspoons salt 3 tablespoons flour Few grains cayenne Cook vegetables in butter, five minutes; then add flour and cook two minutes. Add to stock and cook until carrots are soft. Rub through a sieve; add milk and seasonings. BRAISED BEEF. Wipe three pounds of beef cut from round, sprinkle with salt, and dredge with flour. Cut a one-inch cube of fat salt pork in small pieces. Put in an iron frying pan and try out. Add beef, and turn frequently until surface is well browned. Put in a braising pan and add three cups canned tomatoes, one-fourth cup, each, carrots, turnips, onion, and celery, cut in small pieces, three sprigs parsley, two cloves, and ten peppercorns. Cover tightly and cook in a slow oven four hours. Remove to hot serving dish. Rub tomatoes through a sieve and thicken with one tablespoon flour mixed with cold water to form a thin paste. Pour sauce around meat. BOILED POTATOES WITH BUTTER AND PARSLEY. | Wash, pare and soak eight medium-sized potatoes in cold water to cover for one-half hour.