Cream Of Celery Soup

Planked Steak With Vegetables

Grapefruit, Date And Nut Salad

Maple Bavarian Cream

Cream Of Celery Soup

One bunch celery, 1 pint water, 1/2 t salt, 2 T butter, 2 T flour, 2 c milk. See p. 122.

Planked Steak

Rub the plank thoroughly with salt and put in the broiler under the gas to heat. When well heated place the steak on it, baste with 1 T butter, dust with pepper, and place under the flame, having it turned high at first. Brown first one side, then the other, lower the flame and cook from 8 to 12 m, according to the thickness of the steak. Mash 4 good sized boiled potatoes, add 1/2 c hot milk, 1 t salt and 2 T butter, beating very light. Put them into a pastry bag having a star tube at the end. When the steak is done, remove from the oven and press the potatoes through the tube, making a border of roses all around the plank.

Drain liquor from 1 can of peas, heat with 1/4 c water, season with 1 T butter, 1 t sugar and 1/2 t salt, and pour around the steak inside the potato border. Serve at once.

Grapefruit, Date And Nut Salad

Remove the pulp of 2 grapefruit, cut into pieces about 1 inch long, add 1/2 c dates stoned and cut into small pieces and 1/2 c nut meats. Cover with salad dressing, page 29, and serve on a lettuce leaf.

Maple Bavarian Cream

Soak 2 T gelatine in 2 T cold water. Boil 1/2 c maple sugar with 1/4 c water for 5 m, then slowly pour into the beaten yolks of 2 eggs, stirring constantly. Cook over hot water until the mixture coats the spoon. Remove from the fire, add the gelatine and stir over ice water until the mixture begins to thicken, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs and the whip from 1/2 c cream. Turn into a wet mould and chill.

Preparing The Meal

Immediately after breakfast make the Bavarian cream, then prepare the salad and set in a cool place until needed.

An h before dinner time wash and pare the potatoes and cook in boiling salted water. Also wash the celery and put on to cook. Open a can of peas, drain liquor from them and place peas in a sauce pan to be heated. Prepare the steak for broiling and heat the plank. Finish the celery soup, drain and mash the potatoes, keeping hot until needed. Broil the steak, and heat the peas. Serve the soup and when finished remove the planked steak from the oven, make a border of the potato roses, pour the peas around the steak and serve the dinner.