Buffet Supper
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Veal Loaf Spanish Sauce Scalloped Succotash Cole Slaw Hot Buttered French Bread Currant Jam Peppermint Ice Cream Chocolate Potato Cake Coffee
Drum Cake Centerpiece—Make 2 or 3-layer chocolate cake. Frost with white icing. When icing is set, melt chocolate over warm water and with paint brush paint rim on cake as pictured to simulate rim and lacings of drum. Use peppermint sticks as drumsticks. Place cake on wax paper, then on red or white paper sprinkled with stars.
Veal Loaf with Spanish Sauce
2 pounds veal 1 cup bread crumbs 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1½ teaspoons salt 1 tablespoon catsup 1 slightly beaten egg 1 cup rich milk 6 slices bacon
Grind veal. Add other ingredients except bacon and mix well with hands or spoon. Pack into greased loaf pan, cover top with bacon strips and bake in moderate oven, 350 degrees, for about 1½ hours. Serve hot with Spanish sauce. Serves 8 to 10.
Spanish Sauce
2 tablespoons shortening ½ cup chopped onions 1 clove garlic 2½ cups canned tomatoes 2 teaspoons salt 1 bay leaf 8 whole cloves 1 teaspoon chili powder 2 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon celery seed
Melt shortening, add onion and peeled and chopped garlic and cook 5 minutes. Add other ingredients and simmer slowly for about 45 minutes. Strain, reheat and serve hot.
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