This section is from the book "Lessons In Cooking Through Preparation Of Meals", by Eva Robeeta Robinson. Also available from Amazon: Lessons in Cooking Through Preparation of Meals.
Braized Heart With Dressing
Baked Potatoes Creamed Onions
Apple Farci And Cream
Wash a calf's heart and remove the veins, arteries, and clotted blood; stuff with bread dressing 3/4 c bread crumbs, 1/4 c stock or hot water, 1 t sage, ground, 1 T chopped onion, 1 t chopped red pepper, and 1 t salt, and sew together at the top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, roll in flour and brown in hot fat; place in a small deep baking pan, fill the pan half full of boiling water, cover closely, and bake slowly 2 h, basting every 15 m. It may be necessary to add more water. Remove the heart from the pan and thicken the liquor with flour mixed to a thin paste with cold water, using 2 T flour for every c of liquid. Season with salt and pepper and pour around the heart before serving.
Remove the outer skins from 6 good sized onions and boil until tender, about 1 h. Cover with 1 1/2 c medium white sauce (3 T butter, 3 T flour, p. 38), and serve.
Wash and core 4 good sized apples, Jonathan preferred. With a vegetable scoop or a teaspoon remove several pieces from the sides of each apple, taking care, however, that the cavity so made does not extend to the core.
Put 4 figs, 8 dates, 1/4 c raisins, 1/4 c nut meats, and the pieces of apple through the food chopper, and fill the cavities of the apples, cores and all with this mixture. Place in a small baking pan with 1/2 c water and 2 T butter, sprinkle with 1/4 c sugar, cover and bake slowly until tender. Remove from the pan, adding whatever syrup there may be left to each apple, and serve either plain or with cream.
About 2 h before dinner time stuff and bake the heart.
Prepare onions and potatoes. If the onions are of medium ic allow I h for cooking. If large allow 2 h or cut in quarters. Put the potatoes in to bake (p. 19) 1 h before nner. Make the Apple Farci.
Fifteen minutes before serving make the White Sauce r the onions, drain the onions, put into a serving dish, and cover with the White Sauce.
Remove the heart from the pan and make gravy, if sired. Serve the dinner.
 
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