Meat Souffle - Mushroom Sauce

Baked Potatoes Wax Beans

Strawberry Sponge Cake

Meat Souffle

1 c finely chopped cooked meat, 1/2 c hot Medium White Sauce, yolks 2 eggs, whites 2 eggs. See p. 196.

Mushroom Sauce

To 1 c Medium White Sauce add 1 small can mushrooms, strained and rinsed. Heat thoroughly and serve poured around the souffle.

Wax Beans

Wash well, remove all the strings by cutting off the stems and drawing down the side of the bean, then cut into inch lengths. Cover with boiling salted water and cook until tender, about 1 h. Drain, reserve 1 c for future use, then add 2 T butter, 1/2 t salt, and dash of pepper to the remaining beans, shake over the fire until thoroughly hot, then serve.

Sponge Cake

Beat 2 eggs until thick, add 3/4 c sugar gradually, beating well, then add 1/3 c water and 1/3 t vanilla. Mix and sift 1 1/2 c flour, 1 1/2 baking powder, and 1/4 t salt. Fold lightly into the first mixture. Turn into 2 layer cake pans and bake in a slow oven about 1/2 h.

Strawberry Sponge

Cut 1 pt. strawberries into small pieces and cover with 3/4 c sugar; spread this between the layers of the sponge cake. Cover the top layer with a meringue made by beating the white of 1 egg until stiff and adding 1 T sugar, or with whipped cream. Put a border of whole berries around the edge of the cake. In this case make the meringue with the white of 1 egg left from Wednesday's dessert, saving the other for Friday's dessert.

Preparing The Meal

About 1 1/4 h before dinner time prepare the wax beans and put on the stove to cook. Then wash and scrub the potatoes and place in the oven. Make 1 1/2 c Medium White Sauce and while it is cooking over hot water put enough cold beef through the meat grinder to make I c, then finish the meat souffle, using 1/2 c White Sauce and set in the oven, in a pan of water, to bake, allowing about 45 m for its baking. Now make the sponge cake and put in the oven. While the dinner is cooking in the oven, prepare the Strawberry Sponge, then finish the Mushroom Sauce by adding 1 small can mushrooms to the remaining cup of White Sauce. Now make the meringue or whip the cream, whichever is desired, and set in a cool place until needed. By this time the beans are cooked, may be drained, seasoned and reheated.

Put the layers of cake together with the Strawberry filling before serving the dinner, then cover with the meringue, etc., just before serving the dessert.