Another Every Day Dinner Menu
Liver With Mushrooms
Special Baked Potatoes
Green Salad, French Dressing
Bran Muffins
French Strawberry Pie
Liver With Mushrooms
1 pound liver
2 T. chopped onion
3 T. bacon fat
1 c. mushrooms cut into pieces and sauteed in butter
1/2 c. sour cream
2 T. flour
1 t. salt
Dash pepper
1 c. meat stock or bouillon
Cut liver into cubes and brown with onion in fat. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and cream, blended with flour and meat stock. Add seasonings. Add more liquid if needed. Heat thoroughly and serve on toast.
Special Stuffed Baked Potatoes
6 potatoes
1 t. salt
1/4 c. hot milk
2 T. butter
1/2 c. grated American cheese
Paprika
Select large, uniform potatoes, scrub, bake in hot oven 425 degrees about 1 hour or until soft. Cut in halves lengthwise, scoop out the insides, mix with salt, milk and butter. Beat until creamy. Refill shells; sprinkle with cheese and paprika, bake in moderate oven 350 degrees 5 to 10 minutes.
Green Salad
Mix lettuce, endive, chicory, romaine, celery, watercress, or other salad greens in a salad bowl. Toss thoroughly with French Dressing.
French Dressing
1/3 c. honey
2 t. salt
1 T. dry mustard
1 T. Worcestershire sauce
Dash of Tobasco
1 t. paprika
2 T. tarragon vinegar
1/2 c. cider vinegar
1 can tomato soup
1 1/2 c. salad oil
Mix all ingredients. Put into a jar. Keep in refrigerator. Shake well before using.
Bran Muffins
2 T. shortening
1/4 c. sugar
1 egg
1 c. bran
3/4 c. milk
1 c. flour
2 1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
Cream shortening and sugar well. Add unbeaten egg and beat well. Stir in bran and milk. Let soak until most of the moisture is taken up. Add sifted dry ingredients and stir only until flour disappears. Bake in greased muffin pans in hot oven 400 degrees about 30 minutes. Yield: 8 large or 12 small muffins.
French Strawberry Pie
1 baked pie shell (9 inch)
1 3-oz. package cream cheese
Cream
1 quart strawberries
1 c. sugar
3 T. cornstarch
1/2 pint heavy cream, whipped
Soften cream cheese with cream and spread on bottom of pie crust. Select best half of berries and arrange on top of cream cheese. Mash and cook remaining berries and put through sieve to extract juice. Combine sugar and cornstarch, add juice. Cook until thick and clear, stirring constantly. cool and pour over berries in the crust. Chill and when ready to serve top with whipped cream.
Note: Have you shopped at the White Star Market corner of Congress and Woodbine Streets? This modern grocery store is 100% self service. Whether you are looking for meat, vegetables, or anything in the grocery line, including specialties, you'll find the highest quality at the White Star. We are very proud to have them join "Home Cooking" as a sponsor.
Editor's Note: The White Star Market mentioned above has closed, but the building is still there. You can still see the old store. It is shuttered, but the stars are still on each panel. There appear to be apartments above the store.There is not much parking by today's standards.To see the inside of the market, view this original 1943 advertisement from Armstrong Flooring. A Rochester Ramble gives more information on the store and both interior and exterior pictures.
