Sunday suppers; being fifty-four chafing-dish recipes, old and new

_ SUNDAY

SUPPE

ALICE LAIDLAW WILLIAM

THE LIBRARY

OF

THE UNIVERSITY

OF CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

IN MEMORY OF
HARRY MONTEFIORE GOLDBERG

PRESENTED BY
Josa Goldberg

SUNDAY SUPPERS

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Jfecipes. Old and New

ALICE LAIDLAW WILLIAMS

DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1912

COPYRIGHT, 191*,
BY DUFFIELD & COMPANY

JANUARY

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min'?

We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne" — BURNS.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Caviar on Toast

* Ham and Sweet Potatoes

Cold Chicken, Jelly
Lettuce with French Dressing

Cream Cheese
* Chafing dish.
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SUNDAY SUPPERS

New Year's Punch

Brandied Peaches and Vanilla Ice Cream
New Year's Cookies

PUT six slices of boiled ham cut
thin, into blazer over open fire.
When they have cooked five min-
utes, add six slices of cold boiled
sweet potatoes. Cook till the edges of
ham curl. In a bowl have mixed tea-
spoon of English mustard, one tablespoon
of vinegar, two teaspoons of granulated
sugar. Mix well, and pour over ham.
Cook about two minutes, sprinkling on
a little more sugar as it cooks.

JANUARY

"I do not ask that Fate should bake
For me so very large a cake.
But when my cake, if ever, comes,
Vouchsafe it to me full of plums."

— E. S. MARTIN.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Orange Slices in Rum

* Calf's Brains in Black Butter

Pickled Beets Cottage Cheese

Plum Cake

* Chafing dish
3

UNDAY SUPPER

PLACE in lower half of chafing
dish one pair and a half of
blanched brains in boiling water
with a bay leaf and some tyme.
Cook till tender. Remove, place on a
dish and cut in small pieces and put into
the blazer a full tablespoon of butter.
Allow to burn brown and then quickly
add a scant teaspoon of vinegar. Cook
the boiled brains in the butter for two min-
utes, stirring gently.

JANUARY

"When icicles hang by the wall,

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,

And Tom bears logs into the hall,

And milk comes frozen home in
pail . . ." — SHAKESPEARE.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Red Peppers and Raw Cabbage., chopped

with French Dressing. (On toast.)
* Sausages and Baked Beans

Tomato Pickle or Catsup
* Chafing dish.
5

UNDAY SUPPER

Hot Coffee

Celery Salad

Cake and Preserves

PLACE eight Deerfoot sausages
in blazer over open fire. Fry
till cooked, then push aside
and lay in fat eight tablespoons
of cold baked beans. Heat thoroughly
and serve.

JANUARY

"Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups overflow with wine."

— THOMAS CAMPION.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Grape Fruit
Hot Cocoa or Chocolate

* Chicken a la Newburg
Asparagus Tips with Mayonnaise
Triffle,

(whipped cream, wine and macaroons.)
* Chafing dish.
7

U N D A Y

UPPERS

USE double boiler. Whip a
half pint of cream and yolk
of two eggs, add one wine
glass of sherry. Pinch of red
pepper and a salt spoon of salt. Heat
over double boiler till very hot, then add
cold chicken cut in small squares and heat
again.

JANUARY

'Then wilt thou speak of banqueting de-
lights,

Of masques and revels which sweet
youth did make." — CAMPION.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Anchovies on Toast. (Salted or oil)

Hot Tea

* Pigs in Blankets

* Chafing dish.

9

SUNDAY

UPPER

Lettuce Salad with Mayonnaise Dressing

Cheese
Nut Cake and Cream

CHOOSE plump oysters (3
apiece is sufficient) ; wrap each
in a slice of bacon fastened
with a small skewer and cook
in blazer over flame till bacon is crisp.

10

FEBRUARY

"He heard the bacon sputter on the fork."

— INGELOW.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Raw Oysters on half shell

Hot Tea

* Bacon and Kidneys
Lettuce, French Dressing

Swiss Cheese
Oranges or Bananas,

cut up, sugared and chilled

Cake

* Chafing dish.
11

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PLACE eight slices of bacon in
blazer. Cook till crisp. Push
aside and in the fat put four
split lamb's kidneys. Cook till
tender, then add a well mixed sauce
of two drops of tabasco, dash of paprica,
one-fourth of onion grated, one tablespoon
of Worcestershire sauce, one-fourth tea-
spoon English mustard. Cook four
minutes more.

FEBRUARY

"Would you know how first he met her?
She was cutting bread and butter."

— THACKERAY.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY . FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Pickled Salmon on

Bread and Butter Squares

* Curry of Mutton and Rice

Orange and Banana Salad, Mayonnaise

Wine Jelly and Whipped Cream

Hot Coffee

Chafing dish.
13

SUNDAY SUPPERS

MELT one tablespoon of butter
in blazer. Add half of an
onion and cook for two
minutes. Then add one cup
of mutton broth or stock and one teaspoon
of curry powder, slowly stirring all the
time. After it is well mixed, add the mut-
ton, cut in thin slices and one cupful of
cold stiff rice. Break the rice into four
pieces carefully (don't crumble) and let
the whole cook gently for ten minutes.

FEBRUARY

"The Compline hour is past and gone,
Evening service is over and done,
The monks repair
To their frugal fare,

A snug little supper of something light
And digestible, 'ere they retire for the
night"
— From the INGOLDSBY LEGENDS.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Anchovies (with one Chopped Onion,

Parsley, Hard Boiled Egg, Mixed

with French Dressing on Toast)

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SUNDAY SUPPERS

* Roast Beef Devilled

Potato Salad
Coffee
Meringues and Cream

* Chafing dish.

MELT in blazer one tablespoon
of butter, two teaspoons of
English mustard (mixed), two
tablespoons of chopped pars-
ley, one onion minced, and two table-
spoons of vinegar. Stir and cook three
minutes. Add one saltspoon of salt, red
pepper and one tablespoon of Worcester-
shire sauce. Put in the roast beef cut in
small squares. Cook for five more minutes.

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FEBRUARY

"The true essentials of a feast

Are only fun and feed." — HOLMES.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Orange Slices in Sherry

* Ham and Eggs
Tomato Jelly, Mayonnaise,

with Chopped Celery
Apple Pie
Coffee

* Chafing dish.
17

SUNDAY SUPPERS

IN the blazer melt two tablespoons of
butter. Add one large, finely minced
onion and a teaspoon of dry mustard.
Cook a minute then put in eight or
ten large slices of cold boiled ham cut
thin. While this is cooking break four
eggs in a bowl and beat well. When
the ham begins to brown slightly, pour
in the beaten eggs and cook for two or
three minutes more.

18

MARCH

Sweets and sweet looks were studied then,
And both were pleasing to the men.
Dishes were bright, and so were eyes,
And lords made love, and ladies pies.

— PRAED.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Soup in Cups

Coffee

* Devilled Kidneys

* Chafing dish.

19

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Cabbage Salad with Green Peppers.

Cream Cheese and Guava Jelly

Caramel Custard

MELT one tablespoon of butter
in blazer and add one onion
minced, one teaspoon of mixed
English mustard, two or three
drops of tabasco, two tablespoons of
vinegar, one tablespoon chopped celery
and parsley. Mix and stir continually,
and add one tablespoon of Worcestershire
sauce, salt and red pepper, then add the
kidneys split and salted inside. Cook for
ten minutes and serve on toast.

20

MARCH

"Darkly the humorist muses on Fate;
Ghastly experiment life seems to him.
Subject for merriment, somber or grim,
Is it his doom — or is't something he ate?"
-E. S. MARTIN.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Broiled Sardines on Toast

with Lemon Quarters
* Sweetbreads, Toasted Triscuits spread

with Cream Cheese

Celery Salad Charlotte Russe

After-dinner Coffee

*• Chafing dish.

21

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE sweetbreads blanched and
larded with cooked bacon. At
the table melt two tablespoons
of butter in blazer and after
dipping the sweetbreads in the white of
egg, cook for fifteen or more minutes but
do not scorch; cover and put aside while
you make in lower portion of chafing dish
a brown sauce ; melt a tablespoon of butter,
add a tablespoon of flour, stir continually
till a light brown, then add one cup of
broth or water and keep stirring until it
thickens. Pour over the sweetbreads and
serve on slices of cold boiled or broiled
ham.

MARCH

" 'Oh, Oysters, come and walk with us,'

The Walrus did beseech,
'A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk

Along the briny beach/'

— LEWIS CARROLL.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
* Oysters Broiled Hot Tea

Cold Chicken
Lettuce with Bacon and Mayonnaise

Rolls

Cream Puffs

* Chafing dish.

23

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PLACE sixteen large fat oysters
in the blazer, which has been
well rubbed with butter and
very hot. Turn quickly when
the oysters brown, or they will scorch ; add
more butter if they stick to pan, and
sprinkle with red pepper and salt.

24

MARCH

"Hast thou for cooking a turn, little Lady

Clarissa?
In with them,
In with your fingers, . . ."

— CLOUGH.

MOXDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Shad Roe

Hot Tea or Coffee

Grape Fruit Salad and Cold Tongue

Hot Toast
Washington Pie (Two-layer Jelly Cake)

* Chafing dish.
25

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE shad roe blanched and
par-boiled beforehand. Put in
blazer four teaspoons of butter
(one teaspoon for each half
roe) , when piping hot put in roes and turn
carefully for fear of burning or breaking;
add salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle
with some parsley (chopped) and lemon
j uice.

MARCH

'Cooks need not be indulged in waste,
Yet still you'd better teach them,
Dishes should have
Some sort of taste, . . ."

— LEWIS CARROLL.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Fruit in Glasses

* Mushrooms Saute

Cold Roast Beef Lettuce

Cream Cheese and Bar-le-duc Jelly

(or Guava Jelly)
Coffee Jelly and Whipped Cream
* Chafing dish.
27

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PLACE in blazer butter the size of
a big egg, let it melt; then
place in mushrooms, heads down.
Cover carefully and add butter
whenever it begins to blacken and disap-
pear. Cook till the mushrooms are tender ;
add salt and red pepper.

APRIL

"I speak severely to my boy;

I beat him when he sneezes.
For he can thoroughly enjoy

The pepper when he pleases."

— LEWIS CARROLL.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
* Green Peppers, stuffed
Hot Cocoa or Chocolate
Cold Meat and Lettuce Salad

Swiss Cheese and Onion Sandwiches
Oranges and Bananas in Sherry Wine
* Chafing dish.
29

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE the green peppers cleaned
beforehand, parboiled and
stuffed with chopped fried
liver, bread crumbs and a
tiny bit of onion and butter; season.
Melt a tablespoon of butter in blazer ; then
place stuffed peppers in melted butter,
cover, and cook till tender.

SO

APRIL

" 'A loaf of bread,' the Walrus said,

'Is what we chiefly need;
Pepper and vinegar beside are very good,

indeed.

Now if you're ready, Oysters dear,
We can begin to feed.' '

— LEWIS CARROLL.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Oysters Fried

Club Sandwiches (Toast, Cold Chicken,
Lettuce, Mayonnaise; Fried Bacon)

* Chafing dish.

31

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Hot Coffee

Olives
Prune Jelly and Cream Plain Cake

MELT in blazer two tablespoons
of butter ; sprinkle oysters with
red pepper and salt, and roll
in fine cracker dust; when but-
ter is boiling, place in oysters and turn
when brown. When cooked on both sides
squeeze lemon juice and sprinkle with
red pepper and serve.

APRIL

"Hot-cross buns, hot-cross buns;
One a penny, two a penny;
Hot-cross buns" — MOTHER GOOSE.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Curried Eggs
Hot-cross Buns split, buttered and pieces

of Fried Crisp Bacon Laid Between

Hot Tea

Cold Lamb with Thick Mint Sauce
Preserves and Cake

* Chafing dish.

33

SUNDAY SUPPERS

MELT one tablespoon of butter
in blazer; add one small
chopped onion and brown;
add a mixture of one table-
spoon of flour and one teaspoon of curry
powder. When this boils, stir in two cups
of soup of chicken or veal stock; stir con-
stantly till thick ; then add two tablespoons
of cream and six hard boiled eggs cut in
thick slices. Heat thoroughly; salt, pep-
per and serve.

34

APRIL

"A merciful Providence fashioned us holler
0' purpose roe might our principles
swallow." — J. R. LOWELL.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
*Clams Newburg

Chicken, Cold

Jelly, Lettuce and Mayonnaise
Strawberry Shortcake

* Chafing dish.
35

UNDAY SUPPER

MELT two tablespoons of butter
over boiling water; when
melted, add slowly the yolks of
two eggs and a cup of cream
beaten together. Stir constantly. As soon
as it thickens, add a wine glass of Sherry ;
salt and cayenne pepper to taste and one
pint of clams with the tongue end cut off.
Cook till the clams puff out a little.

MAY

"But I was thinking of a way
To feed one's self on batter,

And so go on from day to day
Getting a little fatter."

— LEWIS CARROLL.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Salted Anchovies, whole, on toast (heated,
with slices of lemon)
* Eggs with Tomatoes
Cabbage and Green Pepper Salad

Chocolate Cake and Whipped Cream
* Chafing dish.
37

UNDAY SUPPER

IN the blazer melt a piece of butter size
of a small egg; add a chopped onion
and cook till brown; then stir in two
tablespoons of flour, and when this
boils, add a half pint of stewed tomatoes
cut in small pieces. When this boils, add
very slowly, six eggs, beaten together;
season and remove when they thicken.

38

MAY

"Then lassies gay played cheese and

ballads
And learned to dress their hair and

salads." — PRAED.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Stewed Mushrooms

Iced Ginger Ale with Lemon Peel

Cold Roast Beef
Potato Salad Swiss Cheese

* Chafing dish.
39

SUNDAY SUPPERS

USE only fresh mushrooms.
Over hot water melt one table-
spoon of butter; add table-
spoon of flour, mix, and place
in mushrooms; cook fifteen minutes. Add
salt and red pepper and one cup of cream,
and yolk of one egg, beaten together. Stir
gently for four minutes and serve on toast.

40

A Y

"And I being provided thus
Shall, with superb asparagus,
A book, a taper and a cup
Of county nine, divinely sup."

— STEVENSON.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Cold Jelly Stock in Cups and Lemon Slices
* Mutton and Asparagus Tips

Saratoga Potatoes (hot)
Tomatoes Raw with Salt and Cream Cheese

* Chafing dish.
41

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Crackers
Pineapple Ice and Sponge Cake

TAKE the yolks of two hard
boiled eggs, and one table-
spoon of butter and rub them
to a cream; add two cups of
milk and heat in blazer. Stir constantly
till mixed. Add two cups of finely cut
mutton and one cup of cooked asparagus
tips. Season and cook about five minutes.

M A Y

"Starvation isn't the plan as
He's to be saved upon."

— BRET HARTE.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Fruit in Orange Skins (very cold)

* Creamed Chicken

Fresh Vegetable Salad Iced Tea

Vanilla Ice Cream with Brandied Peaches

* Chafing dish.
43

SUNDAY SUPPERS

OVER boiling water, put two
tablespoons of butter and one
tablespoon of flour, cook and
add one cup of cream and
one cup of chicken or veal soup stock.
Stir till it is smooth and add two cups of
cold chicken with pimettos or green pep-
pers and cook till thoroughly heated
through, and serve on toast. Garnish
with fried bacon (very dry).

JUNE

"No, you won't 'eed nothin' else
But them spicy garlic smells."

— KIPLING.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Clams on Half Shell (if desired)

Hot Coffee
* Calf Brains, Creamed

Pickled Beets
Baked Potato Skins Stuffed with Potatoes

and Cheese

Chocolate Blanc Mange and Sponge Cake

* Chafing dish.

45

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE the brains parboiled and
skinned in advance. Put in
double boiler over hot water
one tablespoon of butter and
one-fourth of a small onion minced very
fine; add one tablespoon of flour. Stir
and pour in slowly two cups of milk. Stir
till smooth, then add the brains cut in
small pieces. When the brains have
cooked three minutes, add two drops of
tobasco, one-half teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce, salt and pepper and the yolk of one
beaten egg slowly. Keep stirring for two
minutes and serve on pieces of bread.

46

JUNE

Let endless Peace your stedfast hearts

accord,

And blessed Plentie wait upon your board.

— SPENCER.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Polenta

Iced Tea with a Bunch of Mint

Cold Meat Hot Rolls

Lettuce and French Dressing

Strawberry Shortcake

* Chafing dish.

47

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PREPARE in advance six
squares of boiled corn-mush,
cold; also one cup of grated
Swiss cheese. Prepare also in
advance a sauce of one-half can of to-
matoes, one chopped onion, one teaspoon
of sugar and pinch of salt, mix and strain
through a colander; put on stove in double
boiler and thicken with one scant table-
spoon of cornstarch for fifteen minutes.
At the table, dip your slices of cold boiled
mush in a beaten egg and place in blazer
with butter, size of egg. Fry until a light
brown. Warm the sauce and when the
mush is ready put on a platter and pour
over the tomato sauce. Then sprinkle on
each square grated Swiss cheese in good
measure.

48

JUNE

'When roasted crabs spit in the bowl."
— SHAKESPEARE.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Olives, Peppers and Cabbage cut fine on
Toasted Rounds of Bread with

French Dressing
*Soft Shell Crabs.

Watercress Salad
Cream Cheese Crackers

Iced Tea with a dash of Sherry
Strawberries in Wine Jelly

with Whipped Cream
* Chafing dish.
49

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PREPARE the crabs in advance.
Remove shells and the side
pieces. Dip the crabs in white
of egg and sprinkle with salt
and pepper and flour. Melt four table-
spoons of butter in blazer and when the
butter boils put in the crabs and cook till
brown on both sides for about ten minutes.

50

JUNE

Let no man irked by tedious fate
The worth of victuals underrate,
But thankful be, if so he may,
Environ three square meals a day.

— E. S. MARTIN.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Melons with Chopped Ice

* Fried Tomatoes

Cold Roast Beef Saratoga Chips

Iced Tea with Claret and Lemon Juice

Ice Cream and Cake

* Chafing dish.

51

UNDAY SUPPER

M

'ELT in blazer two tablespoons
of butter and a small chopped
onion. When the butter is
very hot, place in the toma-
toes. Cut in thick slices and do not peel.
Salt and pepper and cook till tender.

JUNE

'Tis the voice of the lobster. I heard him

declare :

"They have baked me too brown,
I must sugar my hair."

— LEWIS CARROLL.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Jellied Eggs, Dressed

Coffee

* Lobster Newburg

Lettuce, French Dressing

Crackers and Cheese

Blackberry Tarts

* Chafing dish.

53

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE a cold boiled lobster cut in
small pieces. Place yolk of
two eggs beaten and mixed
with a cup of thick cream in
the chafing dish over hot water. Stir con-
stantly, and when thick, add lobster, heat
through and add a wine glass of sherry.
Salt and red pepper. Do no allow to boil.

JULY

"For barring drink, there is naught so good
Up to the limit's edge, as food.

— J. S. MARTIN.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Anchovies on Toast
Pineapple Lemonade

* Eggs a la Swiss (Cold Meat if Desired)

Bean Salad, Mayonnaise

Raspberries and Cream

* Chafing dish.

55

SUNDAY SUPPERS

MINCE two onions and place,
with one tablespoon of butter,
in blazer, add three tomatoes
cut up. Cook till tomatoes are
tender, then break two eggs in a bowl and
mix in with tomatoes. Add salt and red
pepper, and cook five minutes. Before
serving sprinkly thickly with one cup of
grated Swiss cheese.

56

JULY

"/ love no roast but a nut-brown toast
And a crab laid in the fire;

A little bread shall do me 'stead;
Much bread I don't desire.

— BISHOP STILL.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Devilled Crabs on Toast

Ginger Ale in Cracked Ice and a Spray

of Mint
Tomatoes and Mayonnaise

Crackers and Cheese

One-half Melons with Vanilla Ice Cream

* Chafing dish.

57

SUNDAY SUPPERS

MAKE a sauce of tablespoon of
butter, teaspoon of English
mustard, one tablespoon of
Worcestershire sauce, one-half
tablespoon of chopped parsley, three drops
of tobasco sauce, plenty of salt and red
pepper. Cream these together. (Dash of
onion essence if desired.) In blazer melt
four tablespoons of butter and in this place
the crabs. Cook about four minutes,
spread the sauce over the crabs and cook
another five minutes. Serve with lemon
quarters.

58

JULY

"Sweet when the morn is gray,
Sweet when they're cleared away
Lunch, and at close of day

Possibly sweeter." — CALVERLY.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY * SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
* Frogs' Legs and Mushrooms

Iced Coffee and Cream

Watercress Salad with Hard Boiled Eggs

and Tomato Jelly, Dressed with

Mayonnaise

Blackberries and Cake

* Chafing dish.

59

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE the frogs' legs skinned
and blanched in advance; half
pound of mushrooms is suffi-
cient. At the table, salt and
pepper and roll frogs' legs in flour. Place
in blazer three tablespoons of butter, and
place the mushrooms in first. After five
minutes put in legs with several sprigs of
parsley (and, if desired, some chopped
olives) . Cook till the legs are brown.

60

JULY

For cooking was allied to taste
And girls were taught to blush — and baste.

— PRAED.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Halibut Steak with Tomatoes

Cold Meat and Vegetable Salad

Raspberry Ice (very much sweetened)

with Whipped Cream

* Chafing dish.

61

SUNDAY SUPPERS

SPRINKLE the steaks (cut in con-
venient sizes for the chafing dish)
with pepper and salt and dip in
the white of egg ; mix with a little
cold water and then roll in uncooked
Wheatena. Place in blazer three table-
spoons of butter and when very hot put
in the steaks and brown. Care should
be taken not to have too hot a flame. Re-
move the halibut and in same melted butter
lay six slices of tomatoes, let them fry
lightly. Add more butter if necessary.
Place the tomatoes on top of the steaks.

62

AUGUST

"The falling waters led me;
The foodful waters fed me;
The purple berries in the wood
Supplied me necessary food. . . ."

— EMERSON.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

One-half Melons, with Chopped Ice
* Creamed Sweetbreads

Lettuce Salad
Blueberry Pie

Iced Coffee and Whipped Cream

* Chafing dish.

63

UNDAY SUPPER

PREPARE in advance one pair
of sweet-breads (parboiled and
cut in squares). Make a sauce
by melting one tablespoon of
butter over hot water; add slowly one
tablespoon of flour, stirring constantly.
Add one cup of cream and mix till smooth.
Season with plenty of red pepper and salt
and add sweetbreads. Heat thoroughly
and serve.

AUGUST

"Not all on books their criticism waste;
The genius of a dish some justly taste
And eat their way to fame/' — YOUNG.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Cold Jellied Soup in Cups

* Eggs au Burre Noir

Watercress Salad

Peaches and Cream

* Chafing dish.

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Hot Tea

SUNDAY SUPPERS

IN the blazer melt four tablespoons
of butter till almost black. Break
four eggs carefully into the black
butter slowly and cover them with
the butter. Add red pepper and salt and
one-half tablespoon of vinegar and imme-
diately remove and serve on toast spread
with anchovy paste.

66

AUGUST

"The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass.
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass."

— MARVELL.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Fresh Pineapple and Bananas in Glasses

* Corn Fritters

Cold Meat Romain Salad

Ginger Ale in Cracked Ice

Peach Shortcake

* Chafing dish.

67

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE a thick batter prepared
beforehand with one pint of
milk, one-half cup of flour,
pinch of salt, one-half can of
corn or same quantity of fresh corn
chopped, one teaspoon of baking powder
and one tablespoon of cold melted butter.
At the table, place one tablespoon of but-
ter in blazer and when melted, fry as
many small cakes as you desire, a few at
a time.

68

AUGUST

"He makes the figs our mouths to meet
And throws the melons at our feet."

— MARVELL.

MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Melons Cold Tea

* Lobster Creamed
Lettuce Sandwiches

Blueberry Cake
* Chafing dish.
69

SUNDAY SUPPERS

THE meat of two small boiled
lobsters. With double boiler
melt tablespoon of butter and
one tablespoon of flour; add
one cup milk and half cup of cream. Stir
gently and put in the lobster with pinches
of salt and red pepper. Stir constantly,
till heated thoroughly. Then add another
one-half cup of cream, heat through and
serve with lemon juice.

70

AUGUST

rl see what I eat is the same thing as I eat
what I see." — LEWIS CARROLL.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Tomatoes Deviled

Cold Meat Orangeade

Mayonnaise and Lettuce, and Cream Cheese

Fresh Peach Ice Cream

* Chafing dish.
71

UNDAY SUPPER

HEAT in blazer two tablespoons
of butter and cook in this
thick slices of tomatoes, turn
and cook till tender. Keep
covered while the sauce is made. In the
lower half of the chafing dish make a
sauce of one tablespoon of butter, half a
grated onion, one tablespoon of vinegar,
two drops of tabasco. Saltspoon of salt
and saltspoon of mustard, and add very
slowly two beaten yolks of eggs. Stir
constantly, and when eggs are all poured
in put out flame. Pour over the cooked
tomatoes and serve.

SEPTEMBER

" The duck was tender, but the peas

Were very much too old,
And just remember, if you please,
The next time you have toasted cheese,

Don't let them send it cold.

— LEWIS CARROLL.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Raw Tomatoes with Salt and Cream
Cheese Balls stuffed with Fresh

Red Peppers

* Duck and Rice Cakes

* Chafing dish.

73

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Saratoga Potatoes and Hot Rolls

Toast Cheese on Cracker
Nut Cake and Cream

After-dinner Coffee

PLACE in blazer two tablespoons
of butter, three tablespoons of
currant jelly or grape jelly and
one wine glass of port or
sherry wine. Put in this salted pieces of
cold duck and cold, previously fried, rice
cakes. Heat thoroughly for five or six
minutes. Baste often and serve.

SEPTEMBER

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing

sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that around the

thatch-eaves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-
trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the
core. . . ."

—KEATS.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
75

SUNDAY SUPPERS

* Fish and Sauce

Iced Tea and Ginger Ale

Cold Meat (if desired)

Russian Salad (tomatoes, potatoes, onions,

lettuce, peppers and beets and nuts

with a French dressing)

Grapes and Cakes

* Chafing dish.

ANY cold fish will do, broken in
small pieces. In blazer put
one tablespoon of butter, one
tablespoon of vinegar, one
small onion chopped fine, one tablespoon
of sherry, plenty of salt, red pepper and
three drops of tabasco. When the sauce
commences to boil put in two cups of the
fish and heat through thoroughly.

76

SEPTEMBER

"Some hae meat and cannot eat,

Some wad eat that want it.
We hae meat and we can eat

An say the Lord be iharikit" — BURNS

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Game in Wine Sauce

Vegetable Salad with Mayonnaise

Apple Pie and Cheese

* Chafing dish.

77

SUNDAY SUPPERS

MELT in blazer one tablespoon
of butter, one tablespoon of
currant jelly and one table-
spoon of sherry. Salt and
pepper to taste six slices of cold game and
place them in the sauce and cook five
minutes.

78

SEPTEMBER

The child, the seed, the grain of corn,

The acorn on the hill;
Each for some separate end is born. . . .
— R. L. STEVENSON.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Chopped Olives and Sardines

on Slices of Lemon
A Good Vegetable Salad with Cold Bacon

and Mayonnaise

Cream Cheese with Guava Jelly
Hot Tea

* Corn Oysters

* Chafing dish.

79

SUNDAY SUPP

HAVE prepared in advance one
cup of fresh corn cut from the
cob (without any kernels)
mixed with salt and red pepper
and one well-beaten egg. In blazer put
one tablespoon of butter, heat and add corn
mixture in dabs like little cakes. Cook till
brown and serve with maple syrup.

80

SEPTEMBER

(I own that nothing like good cheer suc-
ceeds. ." — PRAED.

MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Four Slices of Hard Boiled Eggs and

Tomatoes in layers with Pin Olives

Hot Tea or Coffee

* Shrimp-wiggle

Hot Triscuits spread with Cream Cheese
Deep Apple Pie and Cream

* Chafing dish.
81

SUNDAY SUPPERS

IN blazer melt two large tablespoons
of butter; one and one-half of flour;
one saltspoon of salt and cayenne
pepper; and a large cup of milk.
Stew till it thickens; add one cup of
shrimps (prepared) and one cup of
French green peas. Heat thoroughly and
serve on big rarebit crackers.

82

OCTOBER

"We changed the subject, told a fable,
Believed that dinner was on the table"

— PRAED.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Caviar on toast with lemon.

* Chicken Curried Hot Corn Bread

Tea
Lettuce with French Dressing and Swiss

Cheese

Squash Pie

* Chafing dish.

83

SUNDAY SUPPERS

MELT one tablespoon of butter;
add one small, finely chopped
onion and gradually add one
small tablespoon of curry-
powder and one cup of thin mutton or
chicken broth. Heat and add one and
one-half cups of cut up chicken. Cook
for five or seven minutes.

84

OCTOBER

Come, Althea, let us two

Go to feast, as others do:

Tarts and custards, creams and cakes,

Are the junkets still at wakes.

— HERRICK.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Soup in Cups, with

Anchovy Paste Sandwiches
* Chicken Livers, Pear Salad (onions,
pears, parsley and walnuts
with mayonnaise)

* Chafing dish.
85

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Brown Bread and Butter

Hot Ginger Bread with Cream

Cider

ONE tablespoon of butter in
blazer, add four or six livers
cut in small pieces, stir con-
stantly and sprinkle with one
tablespoon of flour. Cook five minutes,
then slowly add one cup of soup stock,
celery-salt and paprika. Now place the
blazer over hot water and add one-half a
cup of sherry, six stoned olives and salt.
Let it cook slowly for eight minutes, keep-
ing covered. Serve on toast.

86

OCTOBER

"Now, if you're ready, Oysters, dear,
We will begin to feed."

— LEWIS CARROLL.

MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Olive Relish Sandwiches
Cream Cheese Balls stuffed

with Red Peppers
* Oysters Deviled

Toast

Tea or Coffee

Brandied Peaches and Charlotte Russe

* Chafing dish.

87

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PUT in blazer one tablespoon of
butter. Melt it and put out the
lamp. Make sauce by adding
to butter one-half teaspoon of
curry-powder, two teaspoons Worcester-
shire sauce; two saltspoons of salt and red
pepper. Light the lamp and add one-half
cup of oyster juice and let it boil. Then
put in oysters (as many as you will for
four people), keep turning and cook till
they puff out.

88

OCTOBER

"It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place"

— STEVENSON.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Fried Hominy and Sausages

Hot Tea or Coffee

Rolls
Lettuce and Grape Fruit Salad,

French Dressing
Caramel Custard
* Chafing dish.
89

SUNDAY SUPPERS

IN blazer put in desired amount of sau-
sages (small dainty ones preferable).
After they are well cooked push to
one side and place in fat the cold
hominy cakes (which have been prepared
before and laid in white of eggs and
cracker dust) and cook till a good brown.

90

NOVEMBER

"Sing a song of seasons,
Something bright in all
Flowers in the summer.
Fires in the fall." — STEVENSON.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Oranges and Bananas in Orange Peel Cups
with Sherry if desired
* Kidneys and Ham

Salad of Lettuce and French Dressing

Sponge Cake. Preserved Ginger

* Chafing dish.

91

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PUT in blazer two tablespoons of
butter. After it is melted, put
in six kidneys, split, cleaned and
cut in small pieces. Pour over
one cup of stock soup (or beef ex-
tract, if stock not procurable) and one
small onion chopped very fine, a few drops
of tabasco sauce, plenty of salt and red
pepper. Serve with cold ham and slices
of lemon.

NOVEMBER

The auld wife sat at her ivied-door,
Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese.

— CALVERLY.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Cold Chicken

Potato Salad. Hot Tea or Coffee

* Cheese Fondu, a la Swiss

Grapes

* Chafing dish.
93

SUNDAY SUPPERS

IN blazer put one cup of white wine,
heat and add one cup of Swiss cheese
.which has been passed through a
colander. Stir constantly until cheese
is melted. Add plenty of red pepper and
at the last moment put in eight green mint
cherries and some of the liquor. Serve
on toast and eat immediately.

NOVEMBER

"Love that sweetens sugarless tea,
And makes contentment and joy agree"

— HOOD.

MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Oyster Cocktails

* Eggs and Anchovy

Chicken Salad. Cheese Crackers

Hot Tea or Cocoa

Apple Pie and Whipped Cream

* Chafing dish.

95

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PLACE in blazer two tablespoons
of butter and one tablespoon
of flour. Cook till they boil,
then add one cup of milk, stir
till smooth. Add one tablespoon of
anchovy paste and red pepper. Cook for
about one minute, then add six hard boiled
eggs cut in large pieces. Cook three
minutes and serve on toast.

96

NOVEMBER

"But now the supper crowns their simple

board
The halesome parritch chief o' Scotia's

food. — BURNS

MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four
Pickled Salmon on Bread Squares

* Turkey

Cranberry Jelly Celery Salad

Pumpkin Pie or Coffee Jelly

* Chafing dish.

97

SUNDAY SUPPERS

PLACE one tablespoon of butter,
one tablespoon of flour and one
cup of turkey stock over hot
water. Mix well and add one
cup of finely cut cold turkey. Heat
thoroughly and season with salt and pep-
per and just before serving add a wine
glass of sherry.

98

DECEMBER

"Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green

holly;
Most friendship is feigning, most loving

mere folly.

Then heigh ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly"

— SHAKESPEARE.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Caviar on Toast

* Oysters and Sausages

Celery and Cabbage Salad. Hot Tea

* Chafing dish.

99

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Toasted Biscuits with Cheese sprinkled
over them and heated

Triffle

(Crushed Macaroons in Whipped Cream
and Preserved Strawberries)

FRY in under part of chafing
dish eight small sausages. Put
the pan aside ; in the upper part
of chafing dish place two
tablespoons of butter and one-half an
onion grated, one tablespoon of flour and
one and one-half tablespoons of curry
powder. When this is boiling put in one
cup of oyster juice and one cup of milk.
Allow this to come to a boil and stir till
smooth. Then add two cups of oysters,
adding a great deal of red pepper, and
cook seven minutes. Serve the oysters
over the sausages split open.

100

DECEMBER

"That all-softening, overpowering knell,
That toscin of the soul — the dinner-bell."

— BYRON.

MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

* Oysters

Cold Roast Beef Potato Salad

Pickled Walnuts Coffee or Tea

French Rolls or English Muffins

Apple Tarts

* Chafing dish.
101

SUNDAY SUPPERS

MELT two tablespoons of butter
in blazer and put in sixteen or
eighteen large oysters. Salt
and pepper (red) when they
begin to curl at edges, and add one
wine glass of sherry. Cook two minutes
and serve on soft toast.

102

DECEMBER

Man cannot live on bread alone.
Oh, tell me, sibyl, tell me whether
A man might live on bread together?

— E. S. MARTIN.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY

, Supper for four
Hot Soup in Cups
* Eggs on Toast

Bacon and Lettuce Salad with Mayonnaise

Corn Bread (cold or hot)

Cranberry Tarts

* Chafing dish.

103

SUNDAY SUPPERS

HAVE prepared in advance four
hard boiled eggs. Chop the
whites and have the yolks put
through a sieve. Have four
pieces of hot buttered toast covered and
ready, and spread with anchovy paste.
At the table melt one tablespoon of butter
in blazer, when boiling add one tablespoon
of flour, and slowly one cup of milk. Add
salt, with paprika to taste. Add the
cooked whites to this sauce. Remove at
once, spread on the prepared toast, then
sprinkle with the yolks, adding one-half
teaspoon chopped parsley and more pap-
rika.

104

DECEMBER

Here we securely live, and eat
The cream of meat,

And keep eternal fires,
By which we sit, and do divine,

As wine
And rage inspires.

— HERRICK.

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MONDAY THURSDAY

TUESDAY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY

SUNDAY
Supper for four

Anchovy Paste and

Hard Boiled Egg Slices

* Chicken Piquant

Tomato Jelly Salad

* Chafing dish.

105

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Swiss Cheese Sandwiches or Hot Rolls

Olives
Gateau de ris After Dinner Coffee

HEAT two tablespoons of butter
in blazer, add one teaspoon of
chopped onion, cook till it
turns color. Then add two
tablespoons of flour, stirring constantly,
and two cups of hot water or soup stock.
Then put in one cup of chopped celery,
plenty of salt, paprika, juice of half a
lemon and two cups of finely cut cold
chicken. Heat thoroughly, then pour over
the chicken the yolks of two well-beaten
eggs. Cook three minutes more.

106

DECEMBER

Christmas loves this a merry, merry place,
Christmas saith with fondest face,
Brightest eye, brightest hair:
"Ben, the drink tastes rare of sack and'

mace.
Rarer

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Supper for four

Grape Fruit

* Turkey

Cranberry Jelly Celery Salad

Hot Tea or Coffee or Punch

* Chafing dish.

107

SUNDAY SUPPERS

Rolls Cheese Balls Mince Pie

Raisins and Nuts

OVTER hot water heat one cup of
turkey stock. When hot, lay
in large pieces of cold turkey.
Mix in a bowl two table-
spoons of butter, yolk of two hard boiled
eggs, one-half teaspoon of mustard, one
teaspoon of vinegar, plenty of salt and
pepper. Stir into this a little of the stock
and when creamy pour in chafing dish,
stirring constantly for a few minutes. At
the last put in one warm glass of sherry
and a little currant jelly. Cook a mo-
ment more and serve.

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