What's For Dinner

Page 12

SAUSAGES PANIROILED SAUSAGES ...Sausage, as bacon, should always be cooked over low heat, draining off excess fat as it accumulates. To panfry sausage, put it into a heavy pan, either hot or cold, and cook over moderate heat, turning frequently until browned and thoroughly cooked. Allow about 30 minutes for sausage cakes and 15 to 20 minutes for the small cased sausages. Cream gravy may be made from fat remaining in pan at end of cooking. Biscuits are delicious with this gravy. SAUSAGE WITH APPLE RINGS ... Panfry sausage. Remove from pan to a hot platter. Pour off excess fat. In the remainder of fat put slices of apple cut ~ inch thick, from which cores have been removed. Cook one side until delicately browned and beginning to look transparent. Turn, sprinkle generously with granulated sugar and continue cooking until apples are transparent. Remove to platter with sausages and serve piping hot. About ten minutes will be required for cooking apples. SAUSAGES WITH PEACH HALVES ... Prick the casing of sausages with a fork. Place on a rack of the broiler. On broiler rack also place peach halves, with a little butter in hollow of each. Have broiler rack set about four inches under a moderately hot flame or element. Turn sausages once during cooking to get an even brown. Broil fruit and sausages from 12 to 15 minutes. Arrange on hot platter, garnishing with parsley. Serve with mashed potatoes and mixed green salad. SAVORY SAUSAGES 1 pound small sausages lI.I teaspoon salt lI.I cup diced celery ~ teaspoon sugar lI.I cup tomato ketchup Creamed potatoes lI.I cup water Prick sausage casings and panfry slowly until done; remove to a serving dish and pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat from pan. Cook celery in this fat; add ketchup, water, salt and a dash of pepper and sugar. When sauce is boiling, pour over sausages on a chop plate and surround with creamed potatoes sprinkled with chopped parsley. Serve with buttered onions, cinnamon apple salad and tapioca pudding. SAUSAGE ROLLS WITH CREAM GRAVY ... Prepare biscuit dough, using a prepared biscuit Hour if desired. Pat or roll to Y3 inch in thickness and cut into triangles or in four or five inch squares. Panfry sausage ten minutes. Drain well and place one sausage on each piece of biscuit dough. Wrap dough around sausage. Put into a baking pan and bake in a hot oven of 450 degrees F. about 15 minutes or until biscuit dough is baked. While biscuits bake, make a cream gravy with sausage fat. Serve over baked rolls. With this dish serve buttered lima beans, molded fruit salad and jelly roll.

10

SAUSAGES lAKED WITH KIDNEY lEANS 1 pound sausages 1 medium can kidney Parsley beans Prick casings of sausages and panfry until brown. Pour off excess fat. Place in baking dish and pour kidney beans over sausages. Bake in a slow oven of 350 degrees F. for about 30 minutes. Place beans on hot platter and surround with sausages or serve in baking dish. If desired, beans may be poured over sausage in frying pan and simmered slowly for 20 minutes on top of stove. Baked beans with tomato sauce may be used in place of kidney beans. Serve with cold slaw, pickles and apple pie. CASSEROLE OF SAUSAGES, APPLES AND SWEET POTATOES 1 pound link sausages lI.I cup brown sugar 3 medium-sized sweet lI.I cup sausage potatoes drippings 3 large red apples lI.I cup boiling water Fry sausage links, which have been pricked with fork, until golden brown. Boil sweet potatoes until tender, pare and cut in halves lengthwise. Line bottom of well greased casserole with sweet potatoes. Place browned sausages over potatoes, and over sausages put apples cut in generous slices but not pared. Sprinkle with brown sugar, and pour drippings, diluted with water, over all. Bake in a moderate oven of 375 degrees F. for about 40 minutes. Serves 3 or 4. Serve with salad of lettuce hearts with cheese dressing and pineapple pudding. SAUSAGE AND SAUERKRAUT CASSEROLE 2 pounds sausage, 2 cups or more made Into patties sauerkraut 2 cups noodles Salt Cook noodles in boiling salted water until tender. Place layer of cooked noodles in baking dish. Cover with sauerkraut. Brown sausage patties in frying pan and place a layer over kraut. Repeat using a second layer of noodles, kraut and sausage. Add 2 cups water and bake in a moderate oven of 350 degrees F. about 1 hour. Serve with boiled potatoes, apple sauce and cherry cobbler. SAUSAGE AND LIVER LOAF 1 pound ground 1 tablespoon minced parboiled liver onion 1 pound bulk pork 2 tablespoons ketchup sausage 2 tablespoons prepared 1~ cups dry bread horseradish crumbs 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 cup milk Cook liver for a few minutes in hot water. Grind and combine with sausage. Add bread crumbs and seasonings and moisten with beaten egg and milk. Pack into greased loaf pan and bake in a moderate oven of 350 degrees F. for 1~ hours. Serve with creamed cabbage, pickles, and pineapple with chocolate cookies.


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.