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 king]
PUFF PASTE
Wash
1 cup butter, shape in circular piece,
reserve 1 tablespoon, and put
remainder in pan between two pans of ice. Work
the reserved butter into
1 1/2 cups bread flour, mix to a dough
with
5/8 cup ice water, knead 5 minutes, cover
and let stand 5 minutes.
Pat and roll 1/4 inch thick, keeping corners square. Place butter in center of one side of pastry, fold other side over butter, fold one end over butter, other end under butter, pressing edges together. Turn 1/4 way round, pat, lift, roll 1/4 inch thick, fold in 3 layers and turn. Repeat 4 times, chilling between pans of ice when necessary, and folding the last time in 4 layers. Chill, roll out, shape, chill again and bake in hot oven, reducing heat after pastry has risen.