Stewed Rhubarb

Ingredients

• two pounds tender rhubarb
• sprinkle generously with sugar
• add just enough water

Method

1. 1

   Wash and trim rhubarb, cut into one-inch pieces.

2. 2

   Put into baking dish, sprinkle with sugar, add water to prevent burning.

3. 3

   Cover and bake slowly until tender but not broken.

4. 4

   Serve very cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Rhubarb with Pineapple and Raisins Old Fashioned Marble Cake SPANISH SOUP 4 cups Brown Stock. 5 tablespoons flour. 2 cups tomato pulp 2 tablespoons freshly grated 1 large, green, finely chopped horseradish. pepper. 3^ tablespoon Worcestershire 1 medium-sized onion, finely Sauce. chopped. Salt, pepper and cayenne, or 4 tablespoons butter. A few drops Tobasco Sauce. 3^ cup hot cooked rice. Process: Cook pepper and onion in butter five minutes. Add flour, stir until well blended and delicately browned, then add gradually stock and tomato pulp; let simmer twenty minutes. Rub through a sieve and season highly with salt, pepper, and cayenne or Tobasco. Before serving add Worcestershire, horseradish and rice. BAKED HALIBUT Wipe a two-pound slice of halibut. Arrange six or eight thin slices of fat salt pork in bottom of dripping pan, slice an onion thinly over pork, add a bit of bay leaf and arrange halibut over onion. Spread halibut evenly with a butter paste made of four tablespoons butter worked to a cream with three tablespoons flour. Season with one-half teaspoon salt and a few grains cayenne. Over butter paste F!:lsunicy 5^ Sufiday Dinners 63 sprinkle thickly-buttered cracker crumbs, and arrange alternately strips of pimento and thin slices of bacon over crumbs. Cover with a buttered paper and bake slowly one hour in a moderate oven. Remove paper the last fifteen minutes of cooking to brown the crumbs and bacon dehcately. Remove to hot serving platter and garnish with shredded potatoes, sliced lemon and parsley. POTATOES AURORA Cut cold, boiled potatoes in one-fourth inch cubes. There should be sufficient to fill three cups. Reheat potatoes in two cups of thin white sauce, turn into hot serving dish. Remove the shells from four hard-cooked eggs, cut them in halves crosswise, remove the yolks. Cut whites in rings and arrange rings around edge of po- tatoes; press the yolks through a ricer over potatoes. Sprinkle the rings with finely chopped parsley. Serve at once. CORN FRITTERS 1 can corn, chopped fine. 1 teaspoon sugar. 1 cup flour. 2 teaspoons salt. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 3^ teaspoon white pepper. 2 eggs. Process: Add dry ingredients, sifted together, to corn; add yolks well beaten; then fold in whites beaten until stiff. Fry as griddle cakes; or dip a tablespoon into deep hot Cottolene, drain well, then take up a spoonful of the corn mixture, drop into hot Cottolene, pushing it off spoon into hot fat with a spatula. Fry a golden brown. Drain on brown paper and serve immediately. CABBAGE RELISH Remove the wilted and coarse outside leaves from one small, solid head of white, new cabbage (Southern), cut off stalk, cut head in quarters, cut out stalk from each quarter and chop cabbage very fine. Add one medium-sized Bermuda onion, finely chopped. Cover with ice water and let stand until crisp. Drain thoroughly and mix with Rehsh Dressing. Serve in lemon baskets, sprinkle with finely chopped chives, green pepper or parsley. 64 52 Sunday Dinners iourth Sunday RELISH DRESSING 1 teaspoon mustard. 1 tablespoon melted butter. 1}^ teaspoons salt. 1 egg yolk. }/2 tablespoon flour. , }/s cup hot vinegar. 1 tablespoon sugar. J^ teaspoon celery seed. Few grains cayenne. % cup thick cream. Process: Mix the ingredients, except celery seed, in the order given. Cook in double boiler, stirring constantly until mixture coats the spoon; strain and add celery seed. Chill and add to cabbage. STEWED RHUBARB Wash and trim off ends of two pounds tender rhubarb; do not peel. Cut rhubarb in one-inch pieces. Put into baking dish and sprinkle generously with sugar, add just enough water

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