Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Part 35

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CANTALOUPE a LA MODE

CONSOMMe AU RIZ--CHEESE b.a.l.l.s

SPICED BEEF--WHIPPED CREAM HORSERADISH SAUCE

POTATOES ITALIAN STYLE--SUCCOTASH

PEAR SALAD

PEACH COTTAGE PUDDING WITH CREAM

COFFEE

CANTALOUPE a LA MODE

Wash small ripe cantaloupe (Rockyfords) with a brush, and chill thoroughly. Cut in halves lengthwise and fill with Pineapple or Raspberry Ice. Arrange on a bed of cracked ice; serve one-half melon to each guest.

RASPBERRY ICE

4 cups water.

1-3/4 cups sugar.

2 cups raspberry pulp.

1/4 cup orange juice.

2 tablespoons lemon juice.

PROCESS: Make a syrup by boiling water and sugar twenty minutes. Mash berries and rub through a fine sieve, add orange and lemon juice, combine with syrup, strain and freeze. Shape with a cone mold and place in seed cavities of halves of cantaloupe.

CONSOMMe AU RIZ

8 cups consomme.

1/4 cup washed rice.

6 cups cold water.

1/2 tablespoon salt.

PROCESS: Add salt to boiling water, then add rice slowly and let cook until rice is soft; drain. Pour over rice six cups cold water to separate kernels. Add rice to hot consomme and serve with Cheese b.a.l.l.s.

CHEESE b.a.l.l.s

4 tablespoons b.u.t.ter.

3/4 cup flour.

1/2 cup water.

1/4 teaspoon salt.

Few grains cayenne.

3 eggs.

1/4 cup grated Edam Cheese.

Cottolene.

PROCESS: Melt b.u.t.ter in a sauce-pan, add water, cook one minute; add flour mixed with seasonings. Cook until mixture leaves the sides of pan, stirring constantly. Cool slightly, add unbeaten eggs one at a time, add cheese. Mix well and drop from tip of teaspoon into deep hot Cottolene.

Drain and serve immediately.

SPICED BEEF

Wash and wipe six pounds of beef cut from the flank. Cover with boiling water; bring to the boiling point and skim. Reduce heat and simmer until meat is tender (time required about five hours), adding the last hour of cooking one-half cup each of carrot, onion and celery cut in dice, two sprays each of parsley and thyme, one of marjoram, six cloves, one-half teaspoon peppercorns and one tablespoon salt. Remove meat and reduce liquor to one and one-half cups; strain. Shred the meat, mix with the liquor and press in a granite, brick-shaped bread pan, packing solidly.

When thoroughly cold, serve, cut in thin slices, with Whipped Cream Horseradish Sauce (for recipe see Page 120).

POTATOES A L'ITALIENNE

To two cups hot riced potatoes, add one tablespoon finely chopped chives, one egg yolk well beaten, whites four eggs beaten until stiff, one-half cup grated cheese. Season with salt, pepper and a few grains cayenne. Pile lightly in a well-greased baking dish and bake from twenty-five to thirty minutes. Turn dish around several times carefully that mixture may puff evenly.

SUCCOTASH

Sh.e.l.l lima beans, wash and cover with boiling water; heat to boiling point and drain; throw away water and rinse beans, drain again. Cook in boiling, salted water until tender. Drain and add to an equal quant.i.ty of hot boiled corn cut from the cob. Season with salt, pepper and b.u.t.ter. Reheat before serving.

PEAR SALAD

Wipe, pare and remove the cores from the desired number of ripe (early) pears. Cut in eighths lengthwise. Arrange on beds of crisp cress, or lettuce heart leaves. Bestrew with prepared red peppers cut in very fine rings. Serve with French Dressing, using lemon juice in place of vinegar. Canned red peppers may be used when fresh peppers are not available. To prepare peppers, plunge them into boiling water for a moment, cut a slice from stem ends, remove seeds and veins, cover with cold water until crisp; drain dry, and cut in fine shreds.

PEACH COTTAGE PUDDING

1/4 cup Cottolene.

1 cup sugar.

1 egg.

1/2 cup milk.

2 cups pastry flour.

4 teaspoons baking powder.

1/4 teaspoon salt.

1/4 teaspoon almond extract.

Fresh peaches sliced.

PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly; add egg well beaten. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt; add to first mixture alternately with milk. Add extract and beat thoroughly.

Turn into a well-greased shallow pan, and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Cut in three-inch squares; pile thinly-sliced fresh peaches on top of each portion, sprinkle thickly with powdered sugar and serve with rich cream.

[Sidenote: _August_