Rolled Flank of Beef with Bread DressingBrowned Potatoes Hot SlawPrune Pudding CreamCoffee
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Rolled Flank of Beef(Four portions)
1lb.round steak one inch thick2T-flour1t-salt2 one-inch cubes of suet
Wipe the meat, trim the edges, pound on both sides with the edge of a plate to break the tendon. Place the dressing (given below) on the steak, roll, and tie with a cord. Roll in the flour and salt. Place in a small dripping pan, put the suet on the top of the meat, add enough water to cover the bottom of the pan, and bake in a moderate oven for fifty minutes. Baste frequently.
Bread Dressing
1C-soft bread crumbs1T-melted butter1t-chopped parsley½t-chopped onion1/8t-celery salt½t-salt1/8t-pepper2T-water
Mix all the ingredients in the order named, stirring lightly with a fork. Place in shape on the meat. Care should be taken not to have the dressing soggy or heavy.
Prune Pudding(Four portions)
1C-cooked, seeded and chopped prunes¾C-sugar¼C-nut meats, cut fine½C-milk1t-vanilla½t-lemon extract½C-cracker crumbs1t-baking powder1/8t-salt
Mix all the ingredients in the order named. Pour into a well-buttered shallow earthenware dish. Place the dish in a pan of hot water and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven, or until the mixture is firm. Serve warm. Individual amounts may be made in moulds.
THE DIXONS COME TO DINNER
"CHARLOTTE, you must have Bettina tell you how to cook fish this way," said Frank.
"It's the Bechamel sauce on it that you like, I suspect," said Bettina. "And it isn't at all hard to make. I serve it with so many things. We like it with carrots——"
"Oh, is it the very same sauce that you serve with carrots?" said Charlotte. "I can make it, Frank. I'll have it for dinner one of these days, with halibut, just as Bettina has served it tonight."
"There is only one thing to think about especially in making it," said Bettina. "After you have beaten the egg slightly, add a very little of the hot liquid to it, and then pour the mixture into the rest. Then cook it a short time, not long, as a sauce made with egg sometimes separates."
"I'll remember," said Charlotte. "You do have such good meals, Bettina. How do you manage it? Sometimes I can think of the best things to cook, and other days I don't seem to have a bit of imagination!"
"I plan my menu all out a week, and sometimes two weeks, ahead," said Bettina. "It is really quite a complicated process, as I want to have a variety, as well as inexpensive things that are on the market. Of course, I may change my plans in many details, but I keep to the general outline. Planning the meals seems simple, but it really requires a lot of thinking sometimes. Excuse me while I bring in the dessert. Bob, will you please help me take the plates?"
The menu that night consisted of:
Sautéd Halibut Steak Bechamel SaucePotato Cubes Butter SauceSliced Cucumbers and Onions with VinegarRolls ButterPrune Whip Whipped CreamCoffee
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Bechamel Sauce(Four portions)
2T-butter2T-flour1½C-milk1/3t-salt1/8t-paprika1 egg-yolk
Melt the butter, add the flour, salt and pepper, mix well, and gradually add the milk. Cook until it thickens. (Not as thick as white sauce for vegetables.) Add the egg yolk. Serve immediately.
To add egg yolk to the hot liquid, beat the egg slightly, add a small portion of the hot liquid slowly and pour it all into the remainder of the hot liquid. Cook only a short time, as the mixture may separate if cooked longer.
Potato Cubes(Four portions)
2C-raw potatoes cut in ¾-inch cubes½t-salt4C-boiling water
Add the salt to the boiling water, add the potatoes and boil till tender. (About ten minutes.) Drain and shake over the fire for a moment. Add the sauce, and serve.
Butter Sauce(Four portions)
2T-butter1T-chopped parsley1t-chopped green pepper¼t-paprika
Mix together, heat and add to the potatoes.
Prune Whip(Four portions)
1/3lb.prunes3 egg-whites1T-lemon juice½C-sugar
Pick over and wash the prunes, then soak for several hours in cold water, enough to cover. Cook slowly until soft, aboutfifteen minutes. Rub through a strainer. Add sugar and lemon juice and cook five minutes; the mixture should be the consistency of marmalade.
Beat the whites until stiff, add the prunes when cold, pile lightly into a buttered baking dish and bake twenty minutes in a slow oven. Serve with cream.
THE WEDDING INVITATIONS
BOB and Bettina had scarcely sat down to dinner one crisp cold evening, when they heard laughing voices at the door. "It sounds like Alice," said Bettina. "What can she be up to now? And Harry, too!"
Bob had already thrown open the door, and there, as Bettina had guessed, were Alice and Harry, each carrying a large box.
"We've come to deliver your invitation to the wedding," said Alice. "It may be unconventional, but it's fun. The rest we are going down to mail—that is, if we don't get frightened at the idea, and pitch the boxes in the river instead."
"If that's the way you feel," said Harry firmly, "I'll carry your box myself."
"Please don't, Harry! Just think, I may never have another opportunity of mailing the invitations to my own wedding, so don't deprive me of the privilege."
"Stay to dinner won't you?" said Bettina. "We had really planned on having Uncle John and Aunt Mary this evening, but they didn't come to town after all. So I am sure we have plenty, even to apple dumplings for dessert."
"Harry had asked me to take dinner with him down town," said Alice, "by way of celebrating when these invitations were mailed. But perhaps we might stay here instead, since this was the very place in which we met first! Harry, I believe sentiment demands that we accept Bettina's invitation."
"I must broil another steak," said Bettina, "but that will take only a few minutes. I'm so glad you can stay."
"But we'll have to leave immediately after dinner," saidAlice, "for these invitations simply must be mailed this evening."
That night for dinner, Bettina served:
Beefsteak Mashed PotatoesTurnipsLettuce Bettina's Russian Salad DressingApple Dumplings and Cream
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Turnips(Four portions)
4 turnips1T-butter¼t-salt1/8t-pepper
Wash, pare and cut the turnips in small pieces. Cook until transparent and tender. Drain, mash, add the butter, salt and pepper, mix thoroughly and return to the fire to dry out the superfluous water. Serve hot with vinegar. (Never cook turnips until brown.)
Head Lettuce(Four portions)
1 head lettuce
Remove the outer leaves and core of the lettuce. Clean thoroughly. Place very wet in a towel, wrap well and lay directly on the ice. Allow to stand one hour before serving to allow the lettuce to get very cold and crisp.
Bettina's Russian Dressing(Four portions)
½C-salad dressing2T-chili sauce1T-chopped green pepper
Mix the ingredients in the order named. Shake thoroughly in a glass jar. Serve cold.
Apple Dumplings(Four portions)
1C-flour2t-baking powder¼t-salt2T-lard1/3C-water4 apples½C-sugar1t-cinnamon
Mix thoroughly the flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in the lard with a knife, and then add the water, mixing to asoft dough. Roll on a well-floured board to one-fourth of an inch in thickness. Wipe and pare the apples, and cut them in quarters.
Cut the dough in four square pieces. Place four quarters of apple in the center of each piece of dough. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Moisten the edges of the dough with water. Bring the four corners of each piece up around the apple, pressing tightly together. Pierce with a fork to allow the escape of steam. Place each dumpling upside down on a floured tin, and bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve warm with cream.
HALLOWE'EN PREPARATIONS
"THERE it is again!" said Bob to Ruth, who was dining with them. "And now it's gone!"
"I feel the same old Hallowe'en thrill that I used to, years ago," said Bettina, "when I turn around suddenly and see a jack-o'-lantern grinning in at the window! Don't you love them?"
"Those are the Stewart children," said Bob. "They're just hoping that I'll come out and chase them away! There's no fun for them in having us like it too well! You girls ought to give at least an imitation of a shriek apiece. You don't have ladylike nerves at all!"
"Bob, that jack-o'-lantern reminds me that we have a piece of work laid out for you—making the jack-o'-lanterns for a Hallowe'en party we have planned. Will you do it?"
"Will I?" said Bob. "Indeed I will! I haven't made one for years and years! Not since I was a boy!"
"Years and years and years and years!" said Ruth, laughing. "Well, this party is in honor of Harry, so you mustn't tell him anything about it—not even that we're giving it. And Bob, I believe Fred would help make the jack-o'-lanterns."
"See here, Ruth," said Bob, "you want Fred to get half the credit for the artistic job I'm going to do. Well, for your sake, I may let him help a little, but I'm bossing the work, I can tell you. Why, I'm particular."
That evening's menu consisted of:
Breaded Lamb Chops Baked PotatoesCreamed PeasSliced Tomatoes Salad DressingSteamed Date Pudding Lemon SauceCoffee
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Breaded Lamb Chops(Four portions)
4 chops1 egg-yolk1T-water½C-bread crumbs½t-salt1T-butter
Wash and look over the chops carefully to remove any particles of bone. Beat the egg yolk and water. Dip each chop into the egg mixture, and then roll in the crumbs, to which the salt has been added. Place in a buttered pan, dot well with butter, and bake twenty-five minutes in a hot oven.
Steamed Date Pudding
2/3C-soft, fresh bread crumbs2/3C-flour2t-baking powder2/3C-fine chopped suet2/3C-sugar1 egg2/3C-dates, chopped fine½t-salt1t-vanilla2/3C-milk
Mix all the ingredients in the order given. Stir well for two minutes, and place in a buttered mould. Steam two hours on the stove or in the fireless cooker. Serve hot with lemon sauce.
Lemon Sauce
½C-sugar1T-flour1C-water2T-lemon juice1/8t-salt1t-butter
Mix well the flour, sugar and salt, add the water and cook for one minute. Add the lemon juice and butter. Beat vigorously, and serve with the date pudding.
HALLOWE'EN REVELS
"Come, on mystic Hallowe'en,Let us seek the dreadful scene,Where the witches, imps and devils,Elves and ghosts will hold their revels!1107 Carberry Avenue.Seven o'clock."
THIS was the invitation received by Harry, Alice, Fred and even Bob, who had an inkling of what was about to happen, inasmuch as 1107 Carberry Avenue happened to be his own address. At seven o'clock that evening Bob was nowhere to be found. However, when four horribly disguised figures were ushered into the house, the witch who pointed the way up the stairs seemed satisfied. A few minutes later, the ghosts and demons having removed such garments as were needed only in the outer air, assembled in the weirdly lighted living-room. All of the electric lights were covered with yellow crêpe paper shades, with faces cut in them. Jack-o'-lanterns stood in every conceivable place, and a fire burned brightly in the open fireplace.
The two witches, who were evidently the hostesses, commenced a weird chant in a minor key. The male ghosts, three in number, immediately took up the music, if it could be so called, howling in loud and uncanny tones. Thereupon the witches beckoned the whole company with all speed to the dining-room.
The table was a mass of color and light. Potatoes, carrots and beets, with sticks for legs, held the lighted candles. At each place were individual favors, witches holding the place cards, and small Jack-o'-lanterns standing beside them. Thecenter of the table was a miniature field of pumpkins and cornstalks.
The place cards were read and the places were found. The guest of honor, he who sat at the right of her who was evidently "witch-in-charge," discovered the following on his card, and the others were equally descriptive and illuminating:
This place is laid for one who soonWill marry!O youth bewitched by maid and moon,Be wary!But if you can't, then make it soon,Dear Harry!
The supper, decorative as well as delicious, was all upon the table. Little individual pumpkin pies on paper doilies stood beside each place. The salad caused much delight among the guests, who at the invitation of the witches, had now removed their masks. A large red apple with a face cut on the outside, had been hollowed out, and the salad was within. On the top of the apple was a round wafer with a marshmallow upon it to represent a hat. The hat was further decorated with a "stick-up" of stick candy on one side. The apple stood on a leaf of lettuce, with a yellow salad dressing necktie. The favor boxes, which were under the witches, were filled with candy corn, while the popcorn balls, placed on a platter, had features of chocolate fudge, and bonnets of frilled paper.
The supper menu was as follows:
Oyster Patties Bettina's Surprise SaladHallowe'en Sandwiches PicklesPumpkin PieCider DoughnutsJumbles Popcorn Balls
"Have another jumble, Harry," urged Ruth. "See, this one has unusual eyes and a particularly soulful expression."
"I have already eaten so many that I fear my memory of this party will be a jumble of faces! I'll see them in my sleep—all with that soulful expression!"
"Another toasted marshmallow, Bettina?" asked Fred,thrusting it toward her on the end of a hat-pin. "This candle is nearly burned out, so I'm afraid I can't offer you any more."
"It is really time to bob for apples," said Bettina. "Who ever heard of a Hallowe'en party without that! And we must each try to bite the swinging doughnut, and then we must blindfold each other and try to pin the tail on the unfortunate black cat. Bob, will you carry this tub into the living-room? And Ruth, will you remove the popcorn balls to the piano bench? Perhaps someone will grow hungry from the exertion of these games. And I know that later in the evening Alice, though a guest, will tell our fortunes."
"Alice can tell my fortune by looking at her own hand," said Harry. "Because she holds my happiness there."
"What a sentimental sentence, Harry!" said Fred, looking amazed. "See, you've embarrassed us all!"
"Well, I'm always being called cold and reserved, and I've decided to turn over a new leaf."
"Oh, Harry, don't be so foolish!" said Alice, who had grown as red as the apples on the table. "It's time for games!"
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Oyster Patties(Six portions)
3T-butter4T-flour1C-milk½t-salt1/8t-paprika½ pint of oysters
Clean the oysters by removing any shells, and drain off the liquor. Melt the butter, add the flour and salt, and mix thoroughly. Gradually add the milk, stirring constantly. Cook until very thick. Place the oysters in a pan and heat one minute. This "plumps" them. Do not cook too long. Add the oysters to the white sauce, and serve immediately in patty shells which have been freshened in a hot oven.
Bettina's Surprise Salad(Six portions)
6 apples1 green pepper, chopped fine½C-diced celery½C-seeded white grapes½C-sliced diced pineapple2T-chopped nut meats1C-salad dressing½t-salt½C-diced marshmallows
Remove the insides of the apples, add the green pepper, celery, grapes, marshmallows, pineapple, nut-meats and salt, mixed thoroughly with the salad dressing. Serve very cold.
To Make the Hallowe'en Sandwiches
When the bread is a day old, cut in slices one-third inch thick. Match in pairs. Cream the butter and spread one side. Place the other side on top. Press firmly. With a thimble cut out circles on one piece of the bread, cut nose and mouth with a knife. The butter showing through gives the resemblance to features.
Pumpkin Pie(Eight pies)
Crusts
1C-flour5T-lard3T-water½t-salt
Cut the lard into the flour and salt. Add sufficient water to make a stiff dough on a floured board. Roll into shape one-fourth inch thick. Place in tin muffin pans making individual pies, filling with the following mixture and baking 30 minutes in a moderate oven.
Pumpkin Filling
1½C-canned pumpkin2/3C-brown sugar1t-cinnamon½t-ginger½t-salt2 eggs2C-milk
Mix the ingredients in the order given, and fill the pie-crusts two-thirds full.
Jumbles(Twenty-four jumbles)
½C-butter1C-sugar1 egg½t-soda½C-sour milk¼t-saltAbout 2C-flourGrape jelly.
Cream the butter, add the sugar, and gradually add the egg, the soda mixed with the sour milk, the salt, and the flour to make a soft dough. (One which will roll easily.) Cut into shape with a round cooky cutter. On the centers of one-half the pieces, place a spoonful of grape jelly. Make features on the rest, using a thimble to cut out the eyes. Press the two together, and bake 12 minutes in a moderate oven.
Cosy fire a-burning bright,——Cosy tables robed in white,——Dainty dishes smoking hot,——Home! And cold and snow forgot!
A set table, cheub on the floor
A FORETASTE OF WINTER
Couple on loveseat in front of fire
"SAY, but it's cold today!" called Bob at the door. "Frost tonight all right! I was glad I took my overcoat this morning. Have you had a fire all day?"
"Yes, indeed," said Bettina, "and I've spent most of the afternoon cleaning my furs with corn meal, and fixing those new comforters for the sleeping porch, and putting away some of the summer clothing."
"I believe we will need those new comforters tonight. How were you fixing them?"
"I was basting a white cheese-cloth edge, about twelve inches wide, along the width that goes at the head of the bed, you know. It's so easy to rip off and wash, and I like to have all the comforters fixed that way. I was cleaning my old furs, too, to cut them up. I'm planning to have a fur edge on my suit this winter. I don't believe you'll know the furs, the suit, or Bettina when you see the combination we will make together! Fur is the thing this year, you know."
"Couldn't you spare me a little to transform my overcoat? I'd like to look different, too!"
"Silly! Come along to the kitchen! There's beefsteak to-night (won't it taste good?) and I want you to cook it, while I'm getting the other things on the table. I didn't expect you quite so soon."
That night for dinner they had:
Beefsteak Creamed PotatoesDevilled TomatoesRolls ButterPlum SauceBettina's Drop Cookies
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Creamed Potatoes(Two portions)
1C-diced cooked potatoes1T-green pepper, chopped fine1T-butter1T-flour½C-milk¼t-salt
Melt the butter, add the flour and salt, mix well, and add the milk slowly. Cook until creamy, and add the potatoes and the chopped green pepper. Serve very hot.
Devilled Tomatoes(Two portions)
2 tomatoes2T-flour1T-lard1/8t-salt1T-butter1T-sugar½t-mustard1/8t-saltA pinch of paprika1 hard-cooked egg½t-flour2T-vinegar1T-water
Peel the tomatoes, cut in half and sprinkle with flour. Place the lard in a frying-pan, and when hot, add the tomatoes. Brown nicely on both sides, and sprinkle with salt. When brown, place on a hot platter and pour over them the following sauce: Sauce—Place the butter in a pan, add the sugar, mustard, salt and paprika, the egg cut fine, and the flour. Mix well, add the vinegar and water. Heat, allow to boil one minute, and then pour over the tomatoes. (If the sauce seems too thick when it has boiled one minute, add a little more water.)
Drop Cookies(Twenty-four cookies)
1/3C-butter1C-sugar1 egg½C-sour milk½t-soda¼t-salt1t-vanilla¼C-chopped raisins2½C-flour½t-baking powder
Cream the butter, add the sugar, then the whole egg. Mix well. Add the sour milk and the vanilla. Mix the baking powder, soda and flour well, add the raisins and add to the first mixture. Beat well. Drop from a spoon onto a buttered and floured pan, leaving three inches between the cookies. Bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.
SURPRISING ALICE AND HARRY
"WE knew you'd be here, and we've come to surprise you!" shouted Bob, Fred, Bettina and Ruth, as they opened the door of the new apartment which was to be the home of Harry and Alice. "We've brought the party with us!" and they held out several bulging baskets.
"Welcome!" smiled Alice, delightedly, as she stepped down from the box on which she was standing to hang a soft, silky curtain. Harry, tall and silent, rose, hammer in hand from the crate he was opening, and welcomed each one in turn.
"Bob and I came to be chaperones if you needed us," said Bettina, putting on a prim and disapproving look, as different as possible from her usual happy expression.
"Oh, my dear!" exclaimed Alice's mother, in a shocked tone. "Surely you didn't imagine—but then, of course you didn't—because you would naturally know that I would be here."
Alice laughed her ringing laugh. "Mother is too literal for any use, Bettina!" And Alice's absent-minded father looked up from the newspaper he was reading to ask what the joke was.
"The joke, Father dear," said Alice, "is that your foolish daughter should be about to marry this solemn and serious youth!" And she turned Harry around by the shoulders till he faced her father. "But perhaps you hadn't heard about the wedding, Father. Now don't tell me you had forgotten!"
"Forgotten? Forgotten your wedding, Alice?" said her mother, astonished. "Of course your father hasn't forgotten. Why, only yesterday he was saying that the cost of a trousseauapparently hadn't lessened since Lillian was married. Weren't you, Father? It was when your new green corduroy came home, Alice, and I was saying——" but Alice had led the girls off to show them over the apartment.
Father had retired behind his newspaper and Harry was showing Fred and Bob his own private den whither he might retire from the worries of domestic life. "Only," observed Fred sagaciously, "since it opens off the living room, you can't retire very far. I predict that married life will make you rather a sociable person, Harry."
Harry shrugged his shoulders, and said nothing. "Old bear!" cried Alice, entering the room at this point. "You don't need to be a sociable person! I like you just as you are!" And she turned to the others. "Come to the party, please. It's all in the kitchen! We've made coffee, too, and everything is bee-youtiful! I love surprises!"
The "party" consisted of:
Apples Popcorn BallsNut CookiesMaple Fudge Coffee
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Popcorn Balls(Eight balls)
¾C-light brown or "C" sugar¾C-white sugar½C-molasses½C-water2T-butter¼t-soda2 qts. freshly popped corn2t-salt1T-vinegar
Place in a sauce pan, the sugar, molasses, water, vinegar and butter. Cook without stirring until the candy forms a hard ball which clicks against the side of the glass when dropped into cold water. Add the soda, stir well and pour over the corn, which has been salted and placed in a large pan. Mix the syrup thoroughly with the corn, and when partially cool, moisten the hands and press the corn into balls of uniform size. Popcorn balls should be kept in a cool place.
Nut Cookies(Three dozen cookies)
1/3C-butter and lard mixed2/3C-"C" sugar1 egg4T-milk2C-flour2t-baking powder1/3C-chopped nut-meats (preferably black walnuts)1t-powdered cinnamon¼t-powdered cloves¼t-mace¼t-nutmeg
Cream the butter, add the sugar and mix well. Add the egg and milk and then the flour, nuts, cinnamon, cloves, mace, nutmeg and baking powder. Place the dough on a floured board. Roll it out one-fourth of an inch thick and cut with a cooky cutter. Place on a well-buttered and floured baking sheet. Bake twelve minutes in a moderate oven.
Maple Fudge(Eight portions)
¼lb.maple sugar2C-granulated sugar¼t-cream of tartar2T-butter2/3C-milk
Mix all the ingredients in the order named. Cook until the candy forms a soft ball when a little is dropped in a glass of cold water. Remove from the fire and let it cool. When cool, beat until it becomes creamy. Pour into a buttered plate.
A DINNER FOR THE BRIDAL PARTY
THE bridal dinner, given for the wedding party by Alice's parents, was truly an elaborate affair. As the young people, who knew each other so well, and had spent so many merry hours together, glanced across the softly lighted table, a little feeling of shyness and constraint came over them because of the formality of the occasion. Even Alice, usually the ringleader in all their fun, was a little silent.
"Shucks!" thought boyish Fred. "None of this in mine! I'd elope first! Wonder if Harry likes it! (Bet he doesn't.)"
Ruth was thinking, "Oh, how lovely! How perfectly lovely! I believe after all—as a time to remember through all the years——" But Fred could not read her thoughts, and saw only the particularly happy smile that she gave him.
"How do you like the nut cups?" Alice asked. "Bettina made these yellow 'mum' nut cups as a Christmas gift to me, and gave them to me now for this dinner! See, they just match the real chrysanthemums! I'm sure I don't know which I like best!"
The girls exclaimed so heartily over the nut cups that Bettina declared to herself that she would make sets for each of them, of different colors and kinds. These of Alice's were really charming. Their wire handles were wound with green maline and tied with a green bow. They were filled with pecans, and pink and yellow bon-bons, which were grapes covered with colored creams.
The place cards were tied with narrow green ribbon to little china slippers, cupids, doves and hearts. Besides the yellowchrysanthemums, which were the table decorations, there was for each of the girls a corsage bouquet of pink roses, and for each of the men a boutonniere of pink rosebuds in a tinfoil case. Flower pins were tucked in the maline bows of the bouquets as favors for the girls, while scarf pins were favors for the men.
When the dinner was over, and the guests were passing into the living room for dancing and music, Alice slipped her arm through Bettina's. "The dinner was lovely; wasn't it?" she said. "I did think I was too tired to enjoy it, but my heart is as light as a feather now! I am going to dance all evening till my last guest goes!"
The menu was as follows:
Grapefruit CocktailCream of Asparagus Soup CroutonsSautéd Halibut Potato RosettesCabbage Relish in Green Pepper CasesPeas in Timbale CasesCeleryHot Rolls Currant JellyVegetable Salad Cheese WafersBrick Ice Cream Individual CakesCoffeePecans Bon-Bons
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
RECIPES OF THE BRIDAL DINNER
Grapefruit Cocktail(Twelve portions)
6 grapefruit12T-powdered sugar12 cherries
Cut the grapefruit in halves crosswise. Half a grapefruit is one service. Remove all the seeds. Insert a sharp-pointed knife between the outside skin or shell and the pulp, and cut out around the inside. Cut the skin away from each section of the pulp. Insert the knife under the core and cut free from the shell, lift out the core and membranes in one piece, leaving the pulp. Sprinkle each grapefruit half with one tablespoon of powdered sugar. Garnish with a maraschino cherry in thecenter and a mint leaf on each side. Serve very cold on a paper doily with some green rose leaves under the grapefruit.
Cream of Asparagus Soup(Twelve portions)
4C-strained asparagus pulp5C-milk7T-butter9T-flour2t-salt¼t-paprika
Melt the butter, add the flour, salt and paprika. Mix well, and gradually add the milk and asparagus. Cook until slightly thick. (About two minutes.) Serve hot.
Croutons(Twelve portions)
8 slices of bread2T-butter
Cut the bread into one-third inch cubes, add the butter melted, and salt. Mix well and brown in a moderate oven, stirring occasionally to permit the bread to brown evenly.