  WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY PLANS "GOOD bran bread," said Bob, reaching for another piece. "I like that recipe," said Bettina, "and it is so easy to make." "What have you been doing all day?" Bob asked, "Cooking?" "No, indeed. Charlotte was here this afternoon and we made plans for the tea we are going to give at her house on Washington's birthday. Oh, Bob, we have some of the best ideas for it! Our refreshments are to be served from the dining-room table, you know, and our central decoration is to be a three-cornered black hat filled with artificial red cherries. Of course we'll have cherry ice, and serve cherries in the tea, Russian style. The salad will be served in little black three-cornered hats; these filled with fruit salad, will be set on the table and each guest will help herself. The thin bread and butter sandwiches will be cut in hatchet shape. And—oh, yes, I forgot the cunningest idea of all! We'll serve tiny gilt hatchets stuck in tree-trunks of fondant rolled in cocoanut and toasted brown. Isn't that a clever plan? Charlotte saw it done once, and says it is very effective." "It sounds like some party! And I'll feel especially enthusiastic if you don't forget to plan for one guest who won't appear—or perhaps I should say two, for I know Frank won't want to be forgotten." For dinner that night Bob and Bettina had: BETTINA'S RECIPES (All measurements are level) Corned Beef au Gratin (Three portions) 1½ C-milk ½ slice of onion 1 piece of celery 2 T-flour 2 T-butter 1 egg 1 t-salt ¼ t-paprika 1 C-chopped corned beef Place the milk, onion and celery over the fire. Allow to get very hot. Remove from the fire and let stand for ten minutes. Remove the celery and onion from the milk. Melt the butter, add the flour. Mix well and slowly add the milk. Cook until the consistency of white sauce. Add the egg, well beaten, the salt, paprika, and beef. Pour into well-buttered individual dishes. Place in a moderate oven and bake twenty-five minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to stand two minutes. Remove from the moulds and garnish with parsley. Baked Tomatoes and Cheese (Three portions) 1 C-canned tomatoes ½ t-salt ¼ t-paprika ¼ C-fresh bread crumbs 3 T-cheese, cut fine ¼ C-cooked celery 1 T-butter Mix the tomatoes, salt, paprika, cheese and celery. Add half the bread crumbs. Pour into a well-buttered baking dish. Melt the butter, add the remaining crumbs and place on top of the mixture. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Gluten Bread (Ten slices) 1 C-gluten flour 1½ t-baking powder ¼ t-salt ¼ C-bran 2 T-sugar 1/3 C-milk 1/3 C-water 1 t-melted butter Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, bran and sugar. Add the milk and water. Beat vigorously for one minute and then add the butter. Pour into a well-buttered bread pan and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. |
|
