Tomato Soup Roast Guinea Fowl—Giblet Sauce Rhubarb Sauce Potato SoufflÉs—Egg-Plant With Fine Herbs Dressed Head Lettuce Orange Ice—Chocolate Jumbles Coffee TOMATO SOUP 1 can tomatoes, or 1 quart tomatoes peeled and cut in pieces. 2 slices onion. 2 sprays parsley. Bit of bay leaf. 4 cloves. ½ teaspoon peppercorns. Few gratings nutmeg. 3 tablespoons butter. 2 tablespoons flour. Salt, pepper, cayenne. Process: Cook the first six ingredients together twenty minutes. Rub through a purÉe strainer, keep hot. Melt butter in a sauce-pan, add flour and stir to a smooth paste, let cook one minute; dilute with tomato mixture to the consistency to pour. Combine mixtures and season with salt, a few grains cayenne and a grating of nutmeg. Reheat and serve with crisp, toasted Saratoga Wafers. ROAST GUINEA FOWL Clean, singe, draw and truss in the same way as for roasting chicken. Stuff if desired. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Lay very thin slices of fat salt pork over the breast, wings and legs. Place in a covered roasting pan, pour in one-half cup water, set in oven and roast from forty-five minutes to one hour (continue cooking if liked well done), turning so as to brown evenly. (When the roasting pan is used there need be no basting.) If roasted in RHUBARB SAUCE The young, tender stalks of rhubarb need only be washed, tops and root cut off, then cut in one-inch pieces (without peeling). Put in a sauce-pan, add just enough water to prevent burning. Cook slowly until soft. Add sugar to sweeten to taste, cook five minutes, cool and turn into serving dish. POTATO SOUFFLÉS Select six medium-sized, rather flat potatoes. Wash, pare and trim them square, then cut lengthwise in slices one-eighth of an inch thick (no thicker). Wash and dry them on a towel. Drop a few at a time into hot Cottolene (not smoking hot), fry them four minutes, turning them occasionally. Remove with skimmer to a croquette basket, let stand five minutes while the fat is heating. When hot enough to brown an inch cube of bread in forty seconds, place the basket containing potatoes into fat, shake constantly and fry two minutes. Drain on brown paper. Repeat process until all potatoes are used. Sprinkle with salt and dispose around roasted Guinea Fowl. EGG-PLANT SAUTÉ (With Fine Herbs) Pare a medium-sized egg-plant, cut in very thin slices, sprinkle with salt and pile in a colander. Cover with a plate and weights to press out the acrid juice; let stand two hours, sprinkle with pepper, dredge with flour, and sautÉ in hot butter until crisp and a golden brown. Mix together one-half teaspoon each finely chopped parsley and chives, one-fourth teaspoon very finely chopped chervil and sprinkle lightly over egg-plant as soon as crisp. Arrange on hot serving dish and serve at once. DRESSED HEAD LETTUCE Remove the outer green leaves from two medium-sized heads of crisp head lettuce. Wash carefully, without separating the leaves; ORANGE ICE 4 cups water. 2½ cups sugar. 2 cups orange juice. ½ cup lemon juice. Rind of two oranges. Process: Pare the rind as thinly as possible from two oranges; add to water and sugar, and cook twenty minutes. Remove rind, add fruit juice, strain, cool and freeze. Serve in stem glasses. CHOCOLATE JUMBLES 1/3 cup Cottolene. 1 cup sugar. 2 squares chocolate grated. 1 tablespoon milk or water. 2 eggs beaten thick and light. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 2 cups flour. ¼ teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Process: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly, add chocolate, milk and eggs. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt; add to first mixture. Add more flour if necessary. Dough should be soft. Toss on a floured board, roll out to one-half inch thickness, shape with a doughnut cutter, sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake ten to twelve minutes in a hot oven.
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