TO-DAY DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 3

TO-DAY DINNER.

'/'PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS! BY. AN . • expert. •- ■■' : V (Specially/Written for The Dominion.) ... .. Tomato Soup. Cauliflower or Celery au Gratin. ,• lentil Puree and Potato Chips. Baked Onions. / Rhubarb' Tart .: 'A good vegetarian 'dinner is not devoid of flavour. r Tho'cook heeds to tasto the dishes ; before dishing them. Remember that vegetables, if. over-cooked, aro watery and flavourless; ■' ■ ■•■■■' ' ■ Cauliflower :au Cfratin. . Method of Preparation—Boil a cauliflowerin the usual way;-and make. melted butter sauce for it. 'Into the sauce put. about a cupful of; grated'cheese. The'amount of cheese depends upon its .flavour. Then pour the sauce over the cauliflower,, and sprinkle grated cheese over it. Next hold • the dish_ in front of a firo, or under tfce ; gas t grill; to toast _ the cheese on top of'it.. This will only take about two minutes.- If the oven is very hot itmay be placed in it to .brown, but one of the former.,ways', is .thoV better.; , , . ' ' . Puree- of Lentils. 1 . . ' Method of Preparation—Boil the soaked, lentils'in fresh'water for two or three-hours, 1 or, until' they 'are quite' soft.' It is . very impnstarit thnt they should be thoroughly cooked. THey'should- be cooked in just enough water tb ibe served in the dish with them-as - a puree. Water may. be added'while thoy are cooking, and:.this, is generally.,necessary, as they absorb a great quantity of it. The best way is to. put the lentils'through a sieve after.'they', are cooked, but this is uot 'neces-' sary. Add salt, 'and butter: to them when dishing. '-Some people like .an onion cooked' with the. lentils, -but they,are. served with- other "vegetables,.! and- do .: not seem-.so mashy ; if tho onion-is cooked separately.

FOB AND SUNDAY. . Ingredients—Beef for roasting, 6 eggs;. 1 pint milk,-leeks and jieas,, potatoes, 31b. apples, currants,. raisins, -peel, 41b. suet,. spice (cornflour,'and 'lemon or; cream),' lamb and mint, or chiicken-.and .'ham, pastry. ' 1 •••' • For' Sunday's Supper—cups grated cheese, 6 eggs,i pint cream; 1' pint milk; pastry, J pint milk?. 1 .. I-.'-packet -lemon . jelly, 'vanilla, salad. < : . . ■ . .GERTRUDE I VET.