Flank Steak Braized With Vegetables

Banana Salad Wafers

English Apple Tart

Flank Steak Braized With Vegetables

Score a flank steak, dredge well with flour, sprinkle with dots of butter and place in an oblong baking pan. Over this place a thick layer of thinly sliced raw potatoes; then a layer of thinly sliced onions; over the whole pour 2 c stewed tomatoes. Cover tightly and place in the oven. Cook slowly 2 1/2 or 3 h. One-half hour before the meat is done, remove the cover, add a layer of boiled rice, if necessary more moisture, and cook uncovered the remaining time. In this case use the Risotto left from lunch instead of the plain boiled rice.

In serving carefully transfer the steak to a hot platter, preserving the contour of the various layers. Slice down through the layers as through a loaf.

Banana and Nut Salad

Remove the skins from 4 bananas, slice through the middle, lengthwise, place the halves on a lettuce leaf on a fruit plate, cover with Salad Dressing, sprinkle with chopped nuts and serve.

English Apple Tart

Fill a deep baking dish with 4 good-sized apples sliced thinly, and sprinkle over them 3 T sugar. Remove all membrane from 1/4 pound suet, chop it fine, and add gradually, while chopping, 2 c pastry flour, 1/2 t salt, and just enough ice-water, 1/4 to 1/2 c, to moisten. Knead a moment, and roll it out in a sheet. Put it over the top of the apples, making a hole in the center; brush with beaten egg and bake in a moderate oven 1 h. Serve either plain or with cream and sugar.

Preparing The Meal

Three hours before dinner time prepare the steak and place in the oven. If a fireless cooker is available, after cooking 1/2 h in the oven the steak may be removed to the "cooker" and cooked for 5 h.

About 1 1/4 h before dinner make the apple tart and place in the oven. Do not make the salad until just before serving the dinner as the bananas discolor when exposed to the air.

When the dinner is served turn out the oven burners leaving the tart in the oven unless already too brown.