1922 Menu: Fish and Cucumbers En Ramekins, Hawaiian Delight

1922 Menu 5
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Poached Egg and Pickled Beet Salad
Rice and Asparagus Soup
Mock Cauliflower
Spanish String Beans
Fish and Cucumbers En Ramekins
Hawaiian Delight

Poached Egg and Pickled Beet Salad
Egg and Beet Salad
Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book
Sarah Tyson Rorer
1 good sized beet or several slices of pickled beet
6 eggs
1 saltspoonful (¼ tsp) f salt
½ saltspoonful (1/8 tsp) of pepper
1 lemon
Chop the beet rather fine. Drop the eggs into a shallow pan of boiling water and poach them carefully. Lift them on a skimmer, dish and sprinkle them with lemon juice. Dust the beets with salt and pepper. When ready to serve, put each egg, which is now very cold and neatly trimmed, into the centre of a nest of lettuce leaves. Cover it with the chopped beet and put in the centre of a teaspoonful of mayonnaise dressing. Serve at once.

Rice and Asparagus Soup
1 quart well-seasoned soup-stock
1 cupful water
½ cupful rice
Grated cheese
1 small bunch asparagus
Wash the asparagus, cut off the tough parts, and use them for cream soup. Put the tips and the tender portions into the broth and water, boil till half done, about twenty minutes, then add the rice well washed, and cook until it is tender. Serve very hot and pass the cheese with it. This soup should be very thick.

Orange Biscuits
2 cups bread flour
4 tsp baking-powder
1 tsp salt
2 tbs shortening
About ¾ cup milk
Loaf sugar
1 orange
Sift the flour, baking-powder, and salt together. Work in the shortening with two knives or the finger-tips. Add milk to make a soft dough, stirring with a knife or spatula. Toss on a well-floured board, roll to one-half inch in thickness and shape into small and dainty biscuits. Then grate the orange rind and press out the juice from the orange. Dip as many lumps of sugar as there are biscuits into the juice, moistening thoroughly. Remove and plunge a lump of orange sugar into the center of each biscuit, sprinkle with grated rind and bake in an oven heated to 450 F. for twelve to fifteen minutes. Serve hot or cold.

Mock Cauliflower
Prepared white radishes
1 ½ tsp salt
2 tbs butter or margarin
2 tbs flour
1 ½ cups milk
1/8 tsp pepper
Few grains cayenne pepper
Paprika
Wash large, white radishes thoroughly and cut them into strips or cubes. Cook them until tender in boiling water to which one teaspoonful of salt has been added. Drain and pour over them a white sauce made as follows: Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, the pepper and cayenne pepper, and cook until bubbling. Add the milk gradually, stirring constantly, and cook until smooth and thickened. Sprinkle all with paprika. Baltimore, Md.

Spanish String Beans
4 tbs fat or drippings
2 large onions
2 tomatoes
1 tbs flour
1 chili pepper
2 lbs green string-beans
2 tsp salt.
Cook onions, tomatoes, chili pepper and fat together until well done and golden brown (slice vegetables thinly). Then brown flour, add hot water and beans, and cook slowly one and one-half hours, adding salt when half done. So. Pasadena, Cal.

Fish and Cucumbers En Ramekins
2 medium-sized cucumbers
1 tsp salt
1 cup flaked fish (leftover)
1 small onion
1½ cupfuls medium-thick seasoned white sauce
1 cupful dry bread-crumbs
Paprika
Pare and cut the cucumbers and onion into cubes. Add the salt and cook in boiling water until the cucumbers are tender. Drain and add the white sauce and flaked fish. Place the mixture in ramekins and dust with bread crumbs and paprika. Bake until browned on top in a 500 F. oven. St. Paul, Minn.

Hawaiian Delight
1½ cups pastry flour
3 tsp baking-powder
½ tsp salt
2 tbs sugar
1 egg
¾ cups milk
1 tbs melted shortening
¼ tsp cinnamon
1 can grated pineapple
Sift together the pastry flour, baking powder, salt, and one tbs of sugar. Beat the egg until light and to it add the milk and melted butter. Add gradually to the dry ingredients, stirring all the while. Beat well, spread in a greased cake pan, and sprinkle the top with a mixture of one tbs of sugar and cinnamon. Bake at 400 F. for twenty minutes. Cut into squares and serve hot with the grated pineapple over it. San Francisco, Cal.

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