Mock Pigeon - Dressing Espagnole Sauce

Baked Sweet Potatoes Combination Salad

Washington Pie

Mock Pigeon

Cut veal steak into strips 6 inches long and 3 inches wide. Cover with Dressing, L. 27, roll up and skewer into shape or tie with a string.

Put in roasting pan, dredge pigeons with flour and sprinkle with dots of butter. Cover bottom of pan with hot water. Bake in moderate oven 45 m, or until meat is tender.

Espagnole Sauce

Into a saucepan place 1/4 c butter. When melted add 1 T each of finely chopped onion and carrot, small piece of bayleaf, sprig of thyme and sprig of parsley. Cook, stirring constantly, until all the ingredients are well browned, then add 4 T flour and brown; add 2 c brown stock, salt and pepper to taste. If the stock is not available use hot water. Boil the sauce 5 m or longer, strain and serve.

Combination Salad

Mix together 1/2 c cooked peas, 1/2 c cooked kidney beans, 1/2 c string beans, 1/4 c celery, cut in small pieces, 1/4 c nut meats and 2 hard-cooked eggs. Cover with Salad Dressing, L. 15, and serve on lettuce leaf.

Washington Pie

Beat the yolks of 4 eggs until light, add 1 1/2 c sugar and beat until creamy. Add gradually 1/2 c boiling water. When well blended add 2 c flour, sifted twice with 2 t baking powder and cut and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs.

Bake in two layers about 20 m in a moderate oven, or until a straw inserted into the center of the cake can be withdrawn clean. The cake when done shrinks away from the sides of the pan. See Cake Baking, Helpful Suggestions - page 105. Put the layers together with a cream filling and serve cold. Whipped cream may be spread on the top or the cream filling may be used, or it may be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Cream Filling

Put 1 c milk in double boiler to heat, adding to it 1/2 c sugar. Beat 2 1/2 T flour with a little cold milk until smooth and about as thick as cream and add to the hot milk. Cook directly over the flame for a minute or so, letting it boil so as to thoroughly cook the flour.

Beat 1 egg slightly so as to mix the white and yolk well, then gradually and slowly pour onto it the hot milk mixture, stirring all the time. Return to the double toiler, cook 2 m, remove from the fire and add 1 t butter. Beat well for a few minutes, then set aside to cool. When cold add 1 t vanilla. When ready to serve spread on the cake between the layers.

For Baked Potatoes see Lesson 6.

Preparing The Meal

Prepare the Washington Pie and put into the oven to bake with the Mock Pigeons and Potatoes about 3/4 h before dinner. Make the Salad.

As soon as the Washington Pie is done remove from the oven, let cool, then put together with the Cream Filling which should have been made in the morning. In the meantime make the Espagnole Sauce and serve the dinner.

Note

There will probably be some good meat juices left in the pan. Pour a little hot water into this, stirring it well all around the pan and scraping up every bit that has adhered to the bottom of the pan. Then pour this into a jar and save to be used later in gravies, soups, etc.