Few grains salt.
PROCESS: Mix sugar, cornstarch, flour and salt, add boiling water
gradually, stirring constantly. Cook over hot water until mixture
thickens; continue stirring. Add lemon juice, rind, butter, and egg
yolks. Line a pie pan with Rich Paste, wet edges, and lay around a rim
of pastry one inch wide; flute edge. Cool mixture and turn in lined pan.
Bake in a moderate oven until crust is well browned. Remove from oven,
cool slightly, spread with meringue, return to oven to bake and brown
meringue.
MERINGUE
Whites 2 eggs.
2 tablespoons powdered sugar.
1/4 teaspoon lemon or orange extract.
PROCESS: Beat whites until stiff and dry; add sugar by the teaspoonful;
continue beating. Add flavoring, drop by drop. Spread unevenly over pie
and bake fifteen minutes in a slow oven; brown the last five minutes of
baking.
CAFE NOIR (AFTER-DINNER COFFEE)
To prepare after-dinner coffee, use twice the quantity of coffee or half
the quantity of water, given in recipe for Boiled Coffee (see Page 30).
This coffee may be prepared in the Percolator, following the directions
given in the foregoing. Milk or cream is not served with black coffee.
Serve in hot after-dinner coffee cups, with or without cut loaf sugar.
[Sidenote: _January_
_Third Sunday_]
Menu
NOODLE SOUP
BOILED BEEF--HORSERADISH SAUCE
BAKED POTATOES
MACARONI WITH TOMATO SAUCE
CHIFFONADE SALAD
STEAMED COTTAGE PUDDING
BANANA SAUCE
COFFEE TEA
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NOODLE SOUP
2 quarts Chicken Consomme.
1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley.
1 recipe noodles cut very fine (see below).
PROCESS: Cook fowl same as for Boiled Fowl (do not tie in cheese cloth).
Drain fowl from stock, and strain. When cold, remove fat, and clear.
Reheat, add noodles, and simmer twenty minutes. Sprinkle with parsley
and serve very hot.
NOODLES
1 egg.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
Flour.
Few grains nutmeg.
PROCESS: Beat egg slightly, add seasonings, add flour enough to make a
stiff dough. Knead on a floured board until smooth and elastic. Roll out
on a sheet as thin as paper, cover and let stand for half an hour. Roll
loosely and cut the desired width, either in threads or ribbons, unroll
and scatter over board; let lay half an ho
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