Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Part 36

_Fourth Sunday_]

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BOILED HALIBUT (COLD)--VINAIGRETTE SAUCE

CUc.u.mBER BASKETS RADISHES

FRENCH FRIED POTATOES--BOILED SWEET CORN

FROZEN APRICOTS--SULTANA CAKE

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BOILED HALIBUT--COLD

Have a piece of Halibut cut weighing two and one-half pounds. Tie in a square of cheese cloth (to prevent sc.u.m from settling on the flesh of fish). Cover with boiling water to which add salt and vinegar or lemon juice; the acid preserves the whiteness of the fish. Boil until the flesh leaves the bones (about thirty-five minutes). Drain and remove from cheese cloth. Pick out bones and remove skin. Place in a vessel that will preserve the shape of fish, chill and dispose fish on a cold serving platter on a bed of garden cress. Set a cuc.u.mber basket at intervals (one for each guest), and serve with

VINAIGRETTE SAUCE

1 teaspoon salt.

1/8 teaspoon black pepper.

Few grains cayenne.

1 tablespoon Tarragon vinegar.

2 tablespoons Malt vinegar.

1/2 cup Olive oil.

1 tablespoon chopped olives.

1 tablespoon chopped pickle.

1 tablespoon chopped green or red pepper.

1 teaspoon chopped parsley.

1-1/2 teaspoons chopped chives.

PROCESS: Put salt, pepper and cayenne in bowl, add oil slowly stirring constantly, add remaining ingredients and blend thoroughly. Chill and pour over Boiled Halibut.

CUc.u.mBER BASKETS

Select long cuc.u.mbers of uniform thickness (three cuc.u.mbers will make six baskets), cut a slice from both the stem and blossom ends, pare and cut in halves crosswise; cut from each piece a section so as to form a handle crosswise of cuc.u.mber. Scoop out the soft pulp and seeds, brush each basket over lightly with olive oil and sprinkle with finely chopped garden cress or parsley. Fill the baskets with Mayonnaise Dressing or Sauce Tartare (see recipe Page 84). Chill and serve in nests of peppergra.s.s or lettuce heart leaves.

FRENCH FRIED POTATOES

Wash and pare medium-sized potatoes, cut them lengthwise in eight pieces of a uniform size. Soak them in cold water two hours, changing the water several times. Drain from water and dry between towels. Then fry a few at a time in deep hot Cottolene. Drain on brown paper and sprinkle with salt. This is an easy method of preparing potatoes in hot weather. The potatoes may be prepared beforehand and the process of cooking is both simply and quickly done. Be sure the Cottolene is not too hot as the potatoes must be cooked through, as well as browned.

BOILED SWEET CORN

Have the water boiling. Remove the husks and silk from the corn and drop them at once into the boiling water; bring water quickly to boiling point and let boil rapidly five to ten minutes (depending somewhat on age of corn). Drain from water and arrange in a napkin-covered platter; serve at once.

FROZEN APRICOTS

Drain the apricots from the liquor in the can. Reserve liquor and cut fruit in one-fourth inch cubes. To the syrup add sufficient water to make four cups; add one cup orange juice; add one and one-half cups sugar. Cook five minutes, strain and pour over apricots; chill and freeze. Fresh apricots or peaches may be used when in season. The fresh fruit should be cooked until clear, in a syrup made of four cups of water and two cups sugar. When this mixture is frozen to a mush, two cups of Whipped Cream may be added, if one desires a richer dessert.

SULTANA CAKE

1/3 cup Cottolene.

1 cup sugar.

2 eggs.

1 egg yolk.

1 cup Sultana raisins.

1/2 cup milk.

2-1/4 cups pastry flour.

4 teaspoons baking powder.

1/4 teaspoon salt.

1/2 teaspoon mace.

PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly; add well-beaten eggs and yolk. Mix and sift flour (except one tablespoon), baking powder and salt and mace; add to first mixture alternately with milk. Dredge raisins with tablespoon flour, add to mixture and beat thoroughly. Turn mixture into a well-greased, brick-shaped bread pan and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. Frost if desired.

[Sidenote: _August_

_Fifth Sunday_]

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TOMATO CANAPe

COLD VEAL LOAF--WHIPPED CREAM HORSERADISH SAUCE

CREAMED NEW POTATOES STEAMED SUMMER SQUASH

LETTUCE, GARDEN CRESS AND ONION SALAD

SLICED PEACHES--CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

ICED COFFEE LEMONADE