Beef Olives

Mashed Potatoes 'Knofli

Maple Custard Pie

Beef Olives

Cut 1 thin steak from the round into strips 4 inches long and 2 inches wide. Put 1/2 c fine bread crumbs into a bowl, add 1/2 t salt, dash of pepper and about 2 T melted butter, or enough to moisten crumbs. Spread each strip of meat with the crumbs, roll up compactly, and tie into shape. Put 1 T butter in a saucepan, add 1 T flour, mix well and brown the flour. Add slowly 2 c stock or hot water. When boiling add 1 T each chopped parsley and onion, a bit of bay leaf, 1/2 t salt, and the "beef olives." Simmer 1 1/2 h or until meat is tender. Strain out of the brown gravy, remove the strings from the "olives" and serve in a mound of mashed potatoes with brown gravy poured around or served separately.

Knofli

Beat 2 eggs slightly and add 1/4 c milk. Add gradually 1 c flour mixed and sifted with 1 t salt. Place a colander over boiling water, turn in 1/3 of the mixture, and force through the colander into the water, using a potato masher. As soon as the "buttons" come to the top of the water, remove with a skimmer to a hot vegetable dish, sprinkle with salt and grated cheese; repeat until all the mixture is used. Stand in the oven 5 m, then serve.

Maple Custard Pie

Grate 1/2 pound maple sugar; beat it with the yolks of 3 eggs until light. Mix 1 T flour to a smooth paste with cold milk, adding the latter gradually until 1 c has been used, then strain into the sugar and egg mixture. Add 1 T lemon juice and turn at once into a pie plate lined with partially baked paste. Bake in a moderate oven until the custard is set. Under no consideration let the custard boil.

Beat the whites of 3 eggs until light and stiff, add 3 T powdered sugar and beat until dry and fine. Heap over the top of the pie, dust thickly with powdered sugar, and brown in a very slow oven. Meringues will not fall id dusted with sugar and browned slowly.

For Pastry see p. 130. Make enough for Tarts to be used the following day, keeping the extra paste in a cold place until ready to use.

Mashed Potatoes

See p. 15 - 4 potatoes, 1 1/2 T butter, 1/4 c hot milk, 1/2 t salt.

Preparing The Meal

About 1 3/4 h before dinner prepare the beef olives and cook. One hour later wash and pare the potatoes and cook in boiling salted water. Also make and cook the Knofli. Place in the oven, then drain and mash the potatoes, arrange in a mound on a hot platter, put the beef olives around it and pour the brown gravy over all, or else serve in a separate dish as desired. Have the pie made in the morning, cut and ready for serving.