Tomato CanapÉ Cold Veal Loaf—Whipped Cream Horseradish Sauce Creamed New Potatoes Steamed Summer Squash Lettuce, Garden Cress and Onion Salad Sliced Peaches—Chocolate Layer Cake Iced Coffee Lemonade TOMATO CANAPÉ Fry circles of bread, cut one-third inch thick, in deep hot Cottolene. SautÉ slices of tomato in hot butter. Drain both on brown paper. Cover each circle of bread with a slice of tomato, sprinkle with salt, pepper and a few grains cayenne. Garnish each with a slice of cucumber and the white of "hard boiled" eggs, cut in the shape of petals to represent field daisies. COLD VEAL LOAF Have the bone of a knuckle of veal sawed in three pieces at the market. Wash, wipe, and put in kettle with two pounds of lean veal, one onion sliced, six slices carrot, one blade celery broken in pieces, one spray parsley and one-half teaspoon peppercorns; cover with boiling water and cook slowly until meat is tender. Drain; chop meat finely and season well with salt, pepper and a few grains cayenne. Reduce liquor to one cup, strain and reserve. Garnish the bottom of a granite, brick-shaped bread pan with the white of "hard boiled" egg cut to resemble three daisies; put a dot of the yolk in center of each and arrange sprays of parsley between each daisy. Put a layer of meat, then a layer of thinly sliced eggs sprinkled with parsley, finely chopped. Cover with remaining meat; pour over strained liquor, press and let stand until cold and jellied. Remove to serving platter, garnish with parsley and small round radishes cut to resemble tulips. Slice thinly and serve with WHIPPED CREAM HORSERADISH SAUCE 4 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish. Few drops onion juice. Few grains cayenne. 1½ tablespoons vinegar. ¼ cup heavy cream whipped. ¼ teaspoon salt. Process: Mix the first five ingredients thoroughly, then fold in the whipped cream. Chill and serve. CREAMED NEW POTATOES Cut two and one-half cups cold, boiled new potatoes in one-half inch cubes. Add one and one-half cups White Sauce. Season highly with salt and white pepper, and reheat in double boiler. Remove to hot serving dish and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. STEAMED SUMMER SQUASH Wash and cut in quarters. Cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain through double cheese cloth. Pass through ricer or mash with potato masher, and season with butter, salt and a little black pepper. Reheat and serve. LETTUCE, GARDEN CRESS AND ONION SALAD Separate the crisp heart leaves of two heads of lettuce; arrange them on a shallow serving dish to represent a full-blown rose. Pick over, wash and dry a bunch of garden cress, chop finely and sprinkle over lettuce leaves. Chop one small onion very fine and mix with French dressing. Pour over lettuce. Serve at once. SLICED PEACHES Scald fine, ripe peaches; remove skins, cut in halves and remove stones. Slice lengthwise and arrange in serving dish in layers. Sprinkle each layer with sugar and lemon or orange juice. Chill and serve with cream and sugar.
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