ConsommÉ with Egg Balls Celery Olives Breaded Sea Bass—Sauce Tartare Norwegian Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes Cabbage Relish Lemon Pie Cheese CafÉ Noir CONSOMMÉ WITH EGG BALLS To six cups of hot ConsommÉ add egg balls, serving three or four in each portion. EGG BALLS 1 hard cooked egg. 1/8 teaspoon salt. Few grains pepper. Few drops onion juice. 1 teaspoon thick cream. ¼ teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Process: Mash yolk, rub through a sieve, add finely chopped white, seasonings, parsley and cream. Moisten with some of the yolk of a raw egg until of the consistency to handle. Shape with the hands in tiny balls and poach two minutes in boiling water or a little consommÉ. Remove with skimmer. Serve at once. BREADED SEA BASS Remove the skin from a sea bass, bone and cut fillets in pieces for serving. Rub over with the cut side of a lemon, sprinkle with salt, pepper, dredge with flour. Dip in egg (diluted with two tablespoons cold water) then in fine cracker crumbs; repeat. Place in croquette basket and fry in deep, hot Cottolene. Drain, arrange on hot serving platter. Garnish with Norwegian Potatoes, parsley and slices of lemon. Serve Sauce Tartare in a sauce boat. (For recipe for Sauce Tartare see page 84.) NORWEGIAN POTATOES Wash, scrub and pare six medium size potatoes. Cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain, pass through ricer. Add six anchovies drained from the oil in bottle and cut in one-fourth inch pieces, one-half teaspoon finely chopped parsley, one-half teaspoon French mustard, salt if necessary, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, a few grains nutmeg, two tablespoons butter, and yolks two eggs slightly beaten. Beat thoroughly, place on range and cook slowly three minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from range, spread mixture on plate to cool, then mold like small eggs. Roll in crumbs, egg and crumbs. Arrange in croquette basket and fry a golden brown in deep, hot Cottolene. STEWED TOMATOES To one can of hot tomatoes add two-thirds cup toasted bread crumbs. Season with salt, few drops Tobasco sauce, two tablespoons sugar, and one-fourth cup butter. Heat to boiling point and turn into hot serving dish. CABBAGE RELISH Chop crisp, white cabbage very fine (there should be two cups). Chop one green pepper and one medium-sized Bermuda onion the same. Mix well and season with one teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon black pepper, one teaspoon celery seed and three tablespoons sugar. Dilute one-fourth cup vinegar with two tablespoons cold water; add to relish. Chill and serve in crisp lettuce leaves. LEMON PIE ¾ cup sugar. 1 cup boiling water. 2 tablespoons cornstarch. 2 tablespoons flour. 2 egg yolks slightly beaten. 4 tablespoons lemon juice. Grated rind one lemon. 1 teaspoon butter. Few grains salt. Process: Mix sugar, cornstarch, flour and salt, add boiling water gradually, stirring constantly. Cook over hot water until mixture thickens; continue stirring. Add lemon juice, rind, butter, MERINGUE Whites 2 eggs. 2 tablespoons powdered sugar. ¼ teaspoon lemon or orange extract. Process: Beat whites until stiff and dry; add sugar by the teaspoonful; continue beating. Add flavoring, drop by drop. Spread unevenly over pie and bake fifteen minutes in a slow oven; brown the last five minutes of baking. CAFÉ NOIR (AFTER-DINNER COFFEE) To prepare after-dinner coffee, use twice the quantity of coffee or half the quantity of water, given in recipe for Boiled Coffee (see Page 30). This coffee may be prepared in the Percolator, following the directions given in the foregoing. Milk or cream is not served with black coffee. Serve in hot after-dinner coffee cups, with or without cut loaf sugar. January
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