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H 0 0 rn Y IJo r I L jD t I II r j TWO DINNER MENUS I By Martha McCulloch Williams I li Here Is a n dinner menu easy but nourishing not so costly and capable I jf Dr f being prepared cooked and serve served if r Inside Ide two tso o hours Roast beef Beef Stuffed Rolled Round i Sliced Potatoes Baked Apples Apple I Cold Sin Slaw V Banana Puffs Black Black Coffee Salted Peanuts Peanut Have the round cut rather long an anis and andI I is 19 thick as need be Butter It on both Bides SIdes salt and pepper lightly cover cove the upper side with wilh bread t crumb ling flag seasoned with onjon onion roll up ti tie and Pond seal In well greased bag with a lump of ot butter or clarified dripping I and a a spoonful of at water Put Put Puth h In a I oot bot oven for three minutes slack heat and cook until done allowing S fifteen to twenty minutes to tc the r pound I If tomatoes are at hand aana pu put I r one or two peeled and sliced in with the meat The gravy will willbe be better and ind the meat itself more piquant Slice peeled potatoes thin drop in void told water drain out put In a gre greased sed bag lg after sprinkling very ery lightly with t i al lt add a little extra extra grease sea seal ind md cook fifteen to thirty minutes tes r In a fairly hot oven the time depend depend- r Y tog tag g on the quantity in the bag Wash the apples well but do not noti i peel cut out specks and bruises core fr j fill Oil the bottom of the space core-space with A lump of ot butter utter over which pile pie 6 sugar gar an and add d a bit bit of t cinnamon A A iove stuck In m the toe side sine ma may take the tue place of at the cinnamon Seal ins inside de a. a well-greased well bag and nd bake eighteen to twenty minutes in a fairly hot bot oven Make cold slaw in the usual wa way and the salted peanuts as follows after art af af- t ter blanching and drying them Put y Ln In La a thickly buttered bag set in a f- f very hot oven for for half hall minute then reduce the heat three quarters and 11 leave eave nuts to to brown for ten minutes I longer They will come out crisp and beautiful ful n needing only a sprinkling j y j of Dt salt To make the banana puffs pulIs roll out sJ good puff paste a quarter quarter Inch thick 1 and cut ut it in squares six inches across Caver over half of each square diagonally with bananas sliced thin and soaked for half an hour in sugar and lemon bag and bake twelve minutes In a hot oven Bananas always cheap and mong among the most nourishing of ot the fruits ought to be more used in cookery cook cook- ery ery- J Here is another good meal for tor a 1 winter da day J Pork Tenderloin Roasted with Sweet r- r Cabbage Pudding Stew Stewed d Carrots IE v J Celery r fA Apple Dumplings Cider Sauce Coffee ColIee Cheese Crackers l r Have the tenderloins split spIlt lengthwise lengthwise length length- f wise Ise and cut them In halves Wipe with a clean damp cloth rub over with butter or dripping season lightly I with salt and pepper and lay in a well greased bag along with raw sweet potatoes peeled and halved or quartered quartered if It very large Add a lump of ot fat tat butter or dripping rolled in a little flour also also a tablespoonful of ot water Seal b bag g and cook In a hot oven thirty five minutes to to an an hour houri ac according to to- to the quantity of food inthe Inthe in the bag Slack that after five minutes Blow Slow steady cooking makes the meat tender yet full Cull of ot flavor Choose a tender cabbage for tor the pudding Shred it fine then drop In boiling salted water and cook uncovered I C ered at full boil on ten minutes Drain I out run cold water through It then I mix It thoroughly through a pint of ot milk which has been beaten well with two eggs and season with s skit and II pepper It If he the cabbage is small use I one DUe egg and halt half a pint of oC milk Have the he bag very thickly greased and sprinkle It Inside with grated cheese Put In the mixture by big spoonfuls idd a lump of ot butter and sprinkle in more cheese between the tho spoonfuls Seal very tight lay on a trIvet put In a hot bot oven for three minutes then Black slack heat and cook for at least an I hour Scrape carrots as usual cut them In pieces and put into a buttered bag with half hall a gill of ot stock a dot of ot butter and salt and p pepper to taste Cook thirty five to la forty five minutes at It a moderate heat Apple dumplings are apple dumplings dump- dump lings hugs in or out Cut of bags Their goodness goodness good good- ness depends on three things things the the I I paste the maker and the cooking The Tho apple Is hardly more than a vehicle to hold sweets and spices and accent the tang of ot them M Make kc real puff putt paste for your dump lings roll it a quarter Inch thick fit It neatly around the apples which should be liberally treated with sugar and butter n net nt t t to name lemon peel and cinnamon put in iii a but thickly bag with a small lump of butT butter but but- T ter tor and a spoonful of at sugar and cook for twenty to twenty twenty five five minutes In is Ini I i fairly tailly hot hat oven i For cider sauce cream half hall a cup cur I K r if sf butter frothy light beat into It s a L r t. t heaping cup of f mod bet het ovet OVe hot water and add gradually a cup cupo o of fresh sweet cider elder hot but not bo bolling boll boilS l. l ing Beat Deat hard together grate nutmeg nut nut- meg over and serve very hot The cheese chees crackers are fight y buttered but sprinkled with parmesan ant and heated inside a b bag g for about minu minutes ten FOR ITHE THE SCHOOL BOX F OM H HOME 0 M E. E Are you ou numbered among among- the man many mothers of great nation wh wb who have boys and girls gins away at school o oi 01 college Then you know what a great delight delight- It gives the he children t to box of borne borne- receive from Mother Mothe a cooked things to eat cat from solid soUd meats like turkey and aria en to tu frothiest of ot sweets Right here good mother you OU will wll find the paper bag a aery very ery present presen help A plump chicken a a small rine tine turkey roasted bag-roasted and ell eli drai drained d and popped inside another bag lightly lightly light light- ly iy greased packs well an mn be eaten caten ut a qualm and ma makes es a a mighty fine cornerstone for the o oa ofa of ofa a proper box The box from home Is the cornerstone cornerstone cornerstone corner corner- stone of ot the season seasons season's is supreme school or college spread Wherefore make mako it one to honor alike aUke your your hild anc and your our housewifery Besides the turkey or the chicken or the trace brace of ducks or the nest of ot smaller birds sate safe In their own gravy mt lUt ut in cakes pies tarts tartlets sundry small anc and piquant meat turnovers indeed tho the very very choicest things amongst all those heretofore set forth as suitable for Ia paper er bag cooking Make too In I quantity pricked biscuit they biscuit they they will bo be good much longer than the average I college boy or ot girl can keep them Here are a few candy suggestions suggestion worth consideration even by a woman woman wo woO woOman man freshman freshman or or sophomore Fondant FOI which is the basis of ot many candies candles is variously made this is asgood as asgood asgood good a way as any I have found To each cup of ot sugar allow a drop of ot acetic acid and third one-third cup of cold water Cook in a very ery clean brass or enamel kettle stirring constantly until It begins to boil Wipe oft off any dry sugar from the tle sides of the kettle add the acid cover the kettle and COOK without runner further stirring at gentle gentie heat until the syrup dropped in coldwater coldwater cold coldwater water forms a soft ball Pour out then In a flattish dish wet with very cold water When cool not cold work with a paddle back and forth until white and creamy then put In something deep cover with a clean damp lamp cloth and set away to ripen Thir formula is adapted from Crom in a famous candy factory where huge tubs of of fondant sto stood d month after month the trained ense sense of ot the heads said It was Just right for use When ready to use cut ut out a good lump put in an earthen vessel and liquefy over boiling water Then flavor and color to taste and either Ither dip into It blanched nuts dates figs or crystallized fruit or small rounds of pt hard fondant After the first dipping set them upon a wire rack ack over a bowl to drain and harden Dip a second time if It you ou want the dandies candles very superior If It there is not notIme time Ime for this roll roU while still soft In powdered sugar and set on waxed paper pa pa- per er to dry and harden Fondant thus liquid colored pink green reen or yellow fl flavored with mint and nd dropped from a tip spoon-tip upon waxed axed paper makes delectable mint cream ream Any other flavor can be used Instead of ot mint With orange or lemon flavor avor after dropping the creams sprinkle while still soft with finely round ground nuts or stick a tiny bit of ot cocoanut In the center Cocoanut cut cuto cutto cutto to o shape and ream dream nuts shelled who e make fine candles candies If fl they are first covered with stiff fo dant and l dipped In the melted stuff which has as been made rich with chocolate Here ere as elsewhere put in a very little brandy with the chocolate as a means of ot accenting its flavor Fruit Fr squares are good To make them lem take equal equal quantities of seeded raisins well welt chopped dates cut small figs gs steamed and cut up fine shred shredded ded ed citron shredded candied candled peel shredded fresh cocoanut and shredded shred shred- ded ed blanched almonds Stir all well together and spread without packing evenly venly over a well buttered flat fiat dish Pour our upon the mixture boiling bailing hot a a tatTy taffy made by boiling until It crackles In n the teeth two cups sugar with one halt cup vin vinegar g r. r and water mixed and nd one tablespoonful of or butter Let I stand land ta d till the surface hardens slight slight- t. t I ly then y then with a a gre well greased v ll-gre ll s e ed knife mark In squares Break apart when cold old and wrap In waxed paper Pack the ae wrapped squares Inside a paper bag ag Lastly be sure that almost the big- big goat gest est cake bagged for the box Is Is a aLady aLady Lady ady McMillan which to my mind quite discounts Lady Baltimore Take for or It three and a half hall cups sifted lour flour two cups sifted sugar one cup blackberry Jam one cUP clip cup sweet milk two thirds cup creamed butter butt five whole eggs or yolks of or tw twelve lve two teaspoons baking powder one teaspoon tea tea- spoon poon cinnamon one teaspoon mixed cloves loves and allspice Cream butter with pa pat t of sugar add yolks beaten light Ight with rest of sugar sift flout with baking powder and add alternately alter altel stately with milk and stiff beaten whites Add spices mixed In hi h half lf cordial cordial then thea Jam Bake In layers put together with icing filled with seeded ceded raisins and chopped English walnuts Use plain icing on top and sides Ides Or bake In a large largo sheet InIde In In- inside side Ide a bag cut square and put tog together together to to- g gether ther as directed Tho essential thing hing is to fill a big bag with it ft it so that hat the spread it graces shall be a huge luge success Copyright 1911 by the Ass Associated Literary Press I |