Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Part 49

SPICED WATERMELON RIND

NOVEMBER SALAD

SQUASH PIE--WHIPPED CREAM

COFFEE SWEET CIDER

CREAM OF ONION SOUP

6 medium-sized onions sliced.

1 quart cold water.

1 green pepper chopped.

2 cups scalded milk.

3 tablespoons b.u.t.ter.

4 tablespoons flour.

1 egg yolk.

Parmesan cheese.

Salt and cayenne.

PROCESS: Cook onion and pepper in two tablespoons b.u.t.ter five minutes, without browning; add water and cook until onions are soft (about forty minutes). Rub through a sieve. Melt remaining b.u.t.ter, add flour and stir to a paste; add gradually scalded milk, stirring constantly. Combine mixtures, add seasonings. Heat to boiling point, remove from range, add yolk of egg slightly beaten. Pa.s.s Parmesan cheese and hot, crisp crackers. Two tablespoons cheese may be added to soup when adding egg yolk. Serve very hot.

CHICKEN STEW WITH TEA BISCUIT

Dress, clean and cut up a fowl. Place in stew pan, cover with boiling water. Add three slices onion, one stalk celery broken in pieces, six slices carrot, spray of parsley, one-half teaspoon peppercorns and a small bit bay leaf. Heat to boiling point, skim, cover and simmer slowly until meat is tender; the last hour of cooking add one tablespoon salt. Remove chicken, add one cup thin cream, strain stock and thicken with flour diluted with cold milk or water. Add one-half tablespoon finely chopped parsley. Serve with Tea Biscuit. If a richer sauce is desired, b.u.t.ter may be added to stock.

TEA BISCUIT

2 cups flour.

4 tablespoons Cottolene.

3/4 teaspoon salt.

4 teaspoons baking powder.

3/4 cup milk.

PROCESS: Mix and sift flour, salt and baking powder, add Cottolene and rub it in lightly with tips of fingers. Add milk and mix to a soft dough with a knife. Toss on a floured board, pat and roll to one-half inch thickness. Shape with a small biscuit cutter, place close in b.u.t.tered pan and bake 15 minutes in hot oven.

NOVEMBER SALAD

Arrange thin slices of crisp Spanish onion in nests of bleached chicory leaves. Pile on onion Jonathan apples pared and cut in one-half inch cubes, celery hearts cut in small pieces and fresh English walnut meats cut in quarters. There should be an equal quant.i.ty of apples and celery, and one cup of nut meats to two cups each of the others. Moisten with Mayonnaise, sprinkle each portion with finely chopped green pepper.

SQUASH PIE

1 cup squash steamed and strained.

1 cup cream or rich milk.

1 cup sugar.

3 eggs slightly beaten.

4 tablespoons brandy or Sherry.

1 teaspoon cinnamon.

1-1/4 teaspoons nutmeg.

1 teaspoon ginger.

Salt.

PROCESS: Mix the ingredients in the order given, stir until ingredients are well blended. Line a deep, perforated pie pan with Rich Paste; brush over with slightly beaten white of egg. Turn in squash mixture and bake in a moderate oven. Serve cold with whipped cream sweetened and flavored with mace.

_December_

"_Merry Christmas to friends!

Merry Christmas to foes!

The world's bright with joy, so Forget all your woes.

The earth's full of beauty, of Love and good cheer.

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year._"

--_Anon._

[Ill.u.s.tration]

[Sidenote: _December_

_First Sunday_]

Menu

SCOTCH POTATO SOUP

PORK TENDERLOIN LYONNAISE

BAKED APPLES

SCALLOPED POTATOES FRIED EGG PLANT

BERMUDA SALAD

APRICOT DUMPLINGS--HARD SAUCE

COFFEE

SCOTCH POTATO SOUP