Show www 7 7 aj IWO let a star studded ham say merry christmas see recipes balow deck the table greetings homemakers heres my christmas present to you a menu with recipes designed to ring in the holiday season and to crown your table with luscious food just wonderful to eat the menu is worked out in the best colors of the season THIS WEEKS MENU christmas dinner grapefruit persimmon salad sweet french dressing baked ham holiday sauce virginia cranberry mold sweet potato pone green peas with beets crescent rolls celery olives jelly plum pudding with sauce coffee recipes given I 1 theres a touch of the traditional in the menu in the baked ham and sweet potato pone topped off with the plum pudding and then theres a dash of newness in the cranberry mold the salad and its perky dressing and the holiday sauce whether youre welcoming your sons from camp your daughters from college make this their gala feast for christmas dinners are something to cherish and remember grapefruit persimmon salad be versatile with your grapefruit peel separate into sections then slip the thin peeling off the sections being careful to leave the section whole alternate the sections of grapefruit with thin slices of persimmon having the outside sections on top so the fruit together gives the appearance of a mound use three sections of grapefruit per serving lay this on a crisp bed of lettuce and serve with dressing avocado and pink grapefruit grape truit sections may also be used in this way sweet french dressing for fruit salads 9 tablespoons oil yh tablespoons powdered sugar 32 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons paprika az teaspoon worcestershire sauce 4 tablespoons lemon juice set all ingredients in icebox for three hours before mixing combine in order given blending thoroughly chill again in mason jar before using let melt then beat until thick with wooden spoon sweet potato pone serves 6 to 8 delicately spiced heart warming and gracious accompaniment to your dinner is is this sweet potato pone satisfy your desire for sweet potatoes with 0 ham this new old way its like grandmother used to make homey tasty just wonderful food I 1 vh 2 cups grated raw sweet potato A cup butter cup sugar A 22 cup milk 1 teaspoon powdered ginger 14 teaspoon mace grated rind of 1 orange blend sugar and butter add sweet potato and milk beat well then add spices and orange rind bake in a shallow buttered casse role in a moderate degrees oven 30 to 35 minutes baked ham you can depend upon your holiday dinner to go over if you serve a ham glistening and shimmering baked in sweet spicy juices wrap the ham in in clean wrapping paper place fat side up on a rack in an open pan use no water bake in a slow oven hams weighing 16 to 18 pounds require 4 to 4 wt hours baking 12 to 15 pounds 3 to 4 hours 10 to 12 pounds 3 to hours and 8 to 10 pounds to 3 hours remove paper and all rind cover r with a glaze of pickled peach juice or I 1 cup honey and vt cup orange marmalade or 1 cup pureed apricots for extra special goodness to make stars cut slices of pineapple and form into a star use a maraschino cherry in center bake until brown about 15 minutes in a hot degrees oven holiday sauce for your masterpiece the ham serve a sauce rich and jewel red ladle it over the ham generously to bring out the best in the meat like all good things the sauce is a simple good tasting combination melt 1 small glass of currant j jelly elly in double boiler add 3 tablespoons chili sauce blend and serve hot green peas with beets bright red and green touch in the best tradition of christmas is your beet and green peas vegetable combination boil the beets with two inches of their tops left on until tender 25 to 35 minutes depending on age and size plunge into cold water and remove skins scoop out center add salt and butter just before serving heat beets fill centers with cooked seasoned green peas heated piping hot virginia cranberry mold want something tantalizingly tart as foil to the bland sweetness of the ham here it is 1 17 ounce can cranberry sauce juice of two oranges grated rind of 1 orange 1 cup hot water 3 packages gelatin mash cranberry sauce fine add rind and orange juice dissolve gelatin in hot water and add to first mixture pour into molds and put in cool place to set |