Mushrooms With Macaroni And Kidney

Brown Bread And Butter . Hermits

Tea

Mushrooms With Macaroni And Kidney

Boil until tender 1/2 pound macaroni; blanch; return to the saucepan and add 1/4 c each butter and grated cheese. Mix well together and set aside to keep warm until needed.

Make Tomato Sauce (p. 125), cooking in double boiler.

Remove the skin from a veal or lamb kidney, slice very fine, and saute in 2 T butter; when tender remove with a skimmer from the butter, and then saute in the same butter 6 mushroom caps, peeled and cut very fine. The canned or dried mushrooms may be used for this. If the dried are used they will need to be soaked several hours in cold water.

Add the mushrooms and kidney to the tomato sauce, arrange the macaroni in a circle in a serving dish and pile the kidney mixture in the center. Serve at once very hot.

Hermits

Cream together 1 c butter and 1 1/2 c sugar; then add I c chopped raisins, 3 eggs beaten well, 3 c flour sifted with 1 t cloves, 1 t nutmeg, and 1 t soda. Roll into a thin sheet, about 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick, cut into rounds and bake in a slow oven until brown.

Brown Bread

One c rye meal, 1 c granulated cornmeal, 1 c graham flour, 3/4 t soda, 1 1/2 t salt, 3/4 c molasses, 1 3/4 c milk or water. For directions see Lesson 17, page 31.

Preparing The Meal

In the morning after breakfast make the brown bread, hermits, and the lemon pie for dinner.

Then 1/2 h before lunch time cook the macaroni. While it is cooking slice the kidney and prepare the mushrooms, then make the tomato sauce. While that is cooking over hot water, add the cheese and butter to the drained and blanched macaroni. Saute the kidney in butter, remove when done and add to the tomato sauce, then saute the mushrooms in the same butter and add to the sauce.

Prepare the table and make the tea. Arrange the macaroni on a hot serving dish with the kidneys and mushrooms in the center.