Jones Apples

Wash and core apples, fill center with country sausage (link), bake in medium oven with half cup of water in the pan.

Helen Shurtleff, Xi.

Crabs - Creole Style

1 can crabmeat

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons chopped onion

2 tablespoons flour

2 cups tomatoes salt, pepper and paprika

Method :

Melt butter, add onion and cook until yellow, add flour. When smooth, add tomatoes. Cook ten minutes, add seasoning and crabmeat. Serve on toast.

Lelia Harwood Smith, Xi

Chicken A La King

Melt two tablespoons butter, add one-half green pepper, finely chopped, and one cup fresh mushroom caps, broken in pieces. Cook four minutes; then add two tablespoons of flour, stir until well blended. Add two cups cream gradually, stirring constantly until the boiling point is reached. Set sauce pan over hot water, add three cups of chicken, cut in cubes, cover and let steam until heated through. Cream one-fourth butter, add three egg yolks, one teaspoon onion juice, three teaspoons lemon juice, and one-half teaspoon paprika. Add to chicken mixture and stir until eggs are set. Serve on buttered toast or in patty shells.

Hazel Russell, Xi Harriet Wilson Davy, Xi.

Oysters With Celery

3 tablespoons finely chopped celery

1 pint oysters salt, paprika

2 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup cream 2 eggs

Method:

To the liquor from oysters add celery, salt and paprika. Simmer slowly five minutes; add butter and half the cream. When simmering, add the oysters and when edges curl add two eggs beaten into rest of cream; pour over toast. Serve with lemon points.

Harriet Wilson Davy, Xi.

Philadelphia Pepper Pot

1/4 cup sliced onion

1/4 cup chopped celery

5 cups chicken stock

1/4 cup chopped green peppers

1/2 pound honey comb tripe

4 tablespoons butter

1/2 teaspoon pepper corns finely pounded

3 1/2 tablespoons flour 1/4 tablespoon salt 1/2 cup heavy cream 1 1/2 cups potato cubes

Method :

Cook vegetables in three tablespoon butter fifteen minutes. Add flour and stir until well mixed. Add remaining ingredients except cream. Cover and let cook one hour. Just before serving add cream and remaining butter.

Ruth Wallis Wagner, Chi Alpha.

Ham a la King (For twenty People)

2 pounds cold boiled ham

11/2 quarts milk

3/4 cup flour for thickening

1 cup butter

6 hard boiled eggs

1 can pimentoes

1 can mushrooms (cut up)

Method :

Melt the butter, add the flour and milk, making a cream sauce. Cut ham very fine in squares, also eggs and pimentoes. Then add to cream sauce and serve in pattie shells or on toast.

Julia Winchell Campbell, Xi.

Wafers for Sunday Night Tea Mix barley-due with cream cheese and spread on Swedish wafers.

Bernice Waite, Xi.