THE RURAL NEW -YORKER 
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liaVC a young, tender goose for the main 
course here, and begin the dinner with 
halves of grape-fruit instead of oysters? 
Their golden bowls will add a charming 
color note to the holly decorated table. 
For an excellent soup chop one can of 
corn, add a quart of water, and let sim¬ 
mer for a few minutes, then rub through 
a sieve. Scald five cupfuls of milk with 
one onion, thinly sliced, in it. then re¬ 
move the onion. Melt two tablespoonfuls 
of butter in a saucepan, add two table¬ 
spoonfuls of flour, and then gradually the 
hot milk, and cook slowly for a moment 
or two, and add the corn, season with 
salt and pepper, reheat, and serve with 
a spoonful of popcorn in each dish. 
If you are to have a fish course, have 
in this way. Chop as much crisp cabbage 
as will be needed, with one-half of a 
small red pepper. Mix well with French 
dressing, and arrange in a mound in the 
center of a salad dish, edge it with very 
crisp lettuce hearts, and mass with may¬ 
onnaise or cream dressing, and then dec¬ 
orate with thin strips of red and green 
pepper. 
As for the dessert, if there is to be a 
Christmas cake for the centerpiece, to be 
cut at the close of the meal, ice cream is 
the best to serve with it, or a delicious 
old-fashioned Christmas plum pudding 
might take the place of the cream and 
cake. For this soften one cupful of stale 
bread crumbs in one cupful of milk. In 
a mixing bowl put one cupful of brown 
A Decorated Christmas Cake. 
fillets of flounder, or any fresh white fish 
that can be easily boned and cut into 
oblong pieces of the right size for one 
service. Wipe each piece dry; dip them 
into well-seasoned flour, and fry evenly, 
in deep fat, until a golden brown on both 
sides. Have ready a cupful of mayon¬ 
naise or cream salad dressing, thick and 
smooth, and to this add a teaspoonful of 
finely chopped pickles and parsley, and a 
few drops of onion juice, and if necessary 
a dash of lemon juice, for it should be 
rather tart. Serve the fish on a long 
narrow platter, on a folded napkin, and 
garnish it with slices of lemon and pars¬ 
ley, and pass the sauce with it. 
Choose your goose with cai’e, one from 
four to live months old is best, one a 
year old should be steamed before it is 
baked. Singe it and remove all pinfeath¬ 
ers; wash and scrub,it in hot soapsuds, 
then draw and wash again in cold water 
and wipe. For the filling mix together 
three cupfuls of mashed potatoes, oue 
cupful of fine stale bread crumbs, soft¬ 
ened with one cupful of milk, two table- 
spoonfuls of finely minced fat pork, two 
small onions finely chopped, one-half cup¬ 
ful of butter, one egg, salt, pepper, and a 
little sage. Fill the goose with this, 
truss, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and lay 
several thin strips of salt pork over the 
breast. Place on a rack in a dripping- 
pan, put in a hot oven, and bake from 
two to three hours, according to the size 
of the bird, basting every half hour with 
the fat in the pan. Remove the pork a 
half hour or so before taking from the 
oven-, that the breast may be evenly 
browned. 
For a delicious apple sauce to go with 
the goose, quarter and core, but do not 
pare, some deep red apples. Put in a 
saucepan, sprinkle with sugar, add a few 
whole cloves and the juice and pulp of 
two tart oranges, and water enough to 
prevent the apples from burning, and 
cook quickly to a mush, stirring occa¬ 
sionally, then rub through a sieve. 
Glazed sweet potatoes go nicely with 
goose. Wash and pare medium-sized ones. 
Cook them 10 minutes in salted water, 
then drain and cut into halves length¬ 
wise, and put them in a buttered baking i 
dish. Make a syrup by boiling three ' 
minutes one-half cup of sugar and four I 
tablespoonfuls of water, add a tablespoon¬ 
ful of butter, and brush each piece of 
potato all over with this, and bake them 
for half an hour, basting three or four 
times in the meantime. 
A verV pretty Christmas salad is made 
sugar, two cupfuls of raisins, seeded and 
chopped, two cupfuls of currants, one cup¬ 
ful of walnut meats, one-half cupful each 
of sliced citron, and chopped candied 
lemon or orange peel, and one teaspoon¬ 
ful each of cloves, cinnamon, and mace. 
To the crumbs add the beaten yolk of 
three eggs, and the last mixture with one 
and one-fourth cupfuls of sifted flour, 
then fold in the whites of eggs beaten 
stiff. Turn the mixture into a well oiled 
mold or individual ones, and steam 3 y 2 
hours. For the sauce mix one-half cup 
of butter with two of powdered sugar, 
then add flavoring, and beat until smooth 
and creamy. Just before the coffee have 
nuts and raisins. 
A cranberry pie makes a delicious 
Christmas dessert easy to make. Stew 
the fruit down thick. Line a deep round 
pie plate with a rich flaky pie crust, and 
fill this two-thirds full with the fruit, 
and cross the top with strips of the pas¬ 
try, using the little pastry wheel to cut 
them with, and finish the edge with one 
of these strips, cut very narrow. Bake it 
in a quick oven, and send it to the table 
decorated with holly. 
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