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Cream of Mushroom Soup
Tuna Fish a la King in Patty Cases
Cabbage and Carrot Salad
Thousand Island French Dressing
Bran Muffins
Maple Charlotte with Maple Pecan Sauce
and Sponge Cake
Coffee with Honey and Whipped Cream

PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS

Sponge cake made
Maple charlotte made
Salad dressing made except for the addition of cream
Dry ingredients and shortening mixed for bran muffins
Peppers cooked
Tuna fish flaked
Cabbage shredded
Ingredients measured for tuna fish a la king
Patty cases made and baked.

MARKET ORDER

1 pound can tuna fish
1 quart milk
1 pint cream
1 pound butter
5 eggs
1 onion
1 lemon
1 apple
1/2 pound fresh mushrooms
1 small cabbage
1 carrot
1 head lettuce
1 large green pepper
4 1/2 cups chicken stock or
5 chicken bouillon cubes
1 pimiento
1 cup bran
1/4 cup chili sauce
1 1/2 cups maple syrup
1/4 pound shelled pecans
1/4 pound coffee
1/4 pint honey
1/2 cup salad oil
2 ounces Graham flour
3 ounces seedless raisins
1/2 package gelatin

CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP

Chop
Stems from 1/2 pound mushrooms, add
Skins from mushrooms
1 slice onion and
3 cups chicken stock or 3 cups water in which carrots have been
cooked, or 3 cups hot water in which 3 chicken bouillon cubes have
been dissolved. Simmer 20 minutes and strain. Melt
4 tablespoons butter or margarine, add
4 tablespoons flour mixed with
1 1/2 teaspoons salt and
1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add the strained stock and stir until soup
boils. Add
2 cups scalded milk, and when soup again boils, serve in bouillon cups.

This may be served at another meal if preferred.

TUNA FISH A LA KING IN PATTY CASES

Cook
1 large green pepper 2 minutes in boiling salted water to which
has been added
1/8 teaspoon soda. Drain and cut in strips. Cook 5 minutes in
1 1/2 tablespoons butter; remove pepper and to butter add
1 tablespoon cornstarch and
1 tablespoon flour; then add
3/4 cup highly seasoned chicken stock and
1/3 cup cream. Stir until sauce boils, add the peppers
1 pound can tuna fish separated in flakes
1 pimiento cut in strips
Salt to taste and
Few drops onion juice. Peel
1/2 pound mushroom caps, saute in
2 tablespoons butter, and add to tuna fish. Serve from the chafing
dish or in
Patty cases.

Two cups cooked chicken, cut in strips, or two cups crab meat may be used
instead of tuna fish.

[Illustration: TUNA FISH A LA KI