Watermelon with Sherry Sauce ConsommÉ Printaniere—Imperial Rings Stuffed Hearts with Vegetables Potato Puff Cabbage Salad Raspberry Whip—White Nut Cake Iced Coffee WATERMELON WITH SHERRY SAUCE Scoop balls out of the center of watermelon using French potato cutter. Pour over Sherry Sauce and place them carefully in a freezer, packed in salt and ice, let stand until thoroughly chilled (about one and a half hours). Serve with Sherry Sauce in tall champagne glasses. SHERRY SAUCE Cook one cup sugar with one-fourth cup of water three minutes. Cool slightly and add one-half cup Sherry, three tablespoons Sloe gin and a sprinkle of salt. Chill and pour over watermelon balls. CONSOMMÉ PRINTANIERE To one quart of Chicken ConsommÉ add one tablespoon each of cooked carrot and turnip, cut in small fancy shapes (using French vegetable cutter for this purpose), small peas, French beans and asparagus tips. Heat these vegetables in a small quantity of hot consommÉ; drain, place them in hot soup tureen and pour over boiling consommÉ. IMPERIAL RINGS Cut stale bread in one-third inch slices. Stamp out circles three inches in diameter; with a smaller cutter (size of top of pepper shaker) STUFFED HEARTS WITH VEGETABLES Clean and wash three calves' hearts; stuff and skewer into shape. Draw small strips of salt pork (lardoons) through edges of hearts. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and brown well in hot Cottolene, with two slices onion, four slices carrot, one blade celery cut fine, two sprays parsley, two small bits bay leaf, three cloves and one-half teaspoon peppercorns. When hearts are richly browned, remove to Dutch oven, casserole or deep baking dish. Add two cups Brown Stock, cover closely and cook slowly in the oven until tender (about two hours), basting six times while cooking. Cut three slices of stale bread one-third inch thick, shape with large round cutter; with a small cutter remove centers to form rings: brush with melted butter and brown delicately in the oven. Arrange them on hot serving platter, set a heart in each ring and surround with new carrots and turnips cut Julienne style and cooked in boiling salted water until tender. There should be one and one-half cups each. Drain and dress with MaÎtre d'HÔtel Butter. STUFFING FOR HEARTS ½ cup cracker crumbs. ½ cup stale bread crumbs. 2 inch cube fat salt pork finely chopped. 2 blades celery finely chopped. ½ teaspoon finely chopped parsley. 1 tablespoon onion finely chopped. Salt, pepper. Process: Mix ingredients in the order given and season well with salt and pepper. POTATO PUFF Prepare two and one-half cups hot mashed potatoes. Add two and one-half tablespoons butter, one-half teaspoon baking powder, season with salt and pepper and moisten with one-half cup hot cream or milk, beat thoroughly. Add the whites of two eggs beaten until NEW CABBAGE SALAD Mix two cups of new cabbage, finely shredded, with one-half cup of celery cut in small pieces and one mild onion finely chopped. Add one-half tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce to one cup of boiled salad dressing and mix thoroughly with cabbage. Chill. Serve in onion cups or in nests of crisp lettuce leaves. RASPBERRY WHIP 1½ cups red raspberries. 1 cup powdered sugar. White 1 egg. Process: Mix sugar with berries and turn into bowl in which white of egg is slightly beaten, then mash berries and sugar and mix thoroughly with egg. Beat with a wire whip until mixture is stiff to stand. Pile lightly on a chilled serving dish and surround with macaroons. Serve with GOLDEN SAUCE 1 egg. 1 cup powdered sugar. 3 tablespoons Sherry wine. Process: Beat yolks until thick and light, add one half the sugar gradually, beating constantly: beat whites until stiff, gradually adding the remaining half cup sugar. Combine mixtures, add wine and beat thoroughly. WHITE NUT CAKE 1/3 cup Cottolene. 1½ cups fine sugar. ¾ cup cold water. 2¼ cups pastry flour. 4 teaspoons baking powder. ¼ teaspoon salt. Whites 4 eggs beaten until stiff. ½ teaspoon Almond extract. 1 cup English walnut meats broken in pieces. Process: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, beating constantly. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt, add alternately to first mixture with water, add nut meats and extract; cut and fold MAPLE FROSTING 1 cup maple sugar. ½ cup boiling water. White 1 egg. 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar. Process: Boil sugar, water and cream of tartar together until it spins a thread from tip of spoon. Pour slowly in a fine stream on the beaten white and continue beating until of the consistency to spread over cake. (To get the exact proportion of sugar, weigh one level cup of granulated sugar to ascertain by weight how much Maple sugar is required for this amount of water and white of one egg. It will weigh about one-half pound.) New Cabbage Salad July
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