Full Menu: Hamburger Roll, Prune Cake and more

Full Menu from Good Housekeeping's Book of Menus (1922)

Asparagus and Nut Salad
Tomato and Barley Soup
Candied Yams
Celery Savory
Hamburger Roll
Boiled Oregon Prune Cake

Nut and Asparagus Salad
6 hard-cooked eggs
2tbs chopped hickory-nut-meats
1 cupful cooked asparagus-tips
1 tsp minced parsley
French dressing
Extra nut-meats, parsley, and asparagus-tips
Lettuce
Shell the eggs and cut in halves lengthwise. Mash the yolks add the nut-meats, the asparagus-tips and the parsley, and blend with four tablespoonfuls of French dressing that is not very sour. Fill the egg-halves with this mixture, arrange on lettuce-leaves and garnish with extra asparagus-tips, parsley, and nut-meats. If any of the asparagus mixture is left over, it can be blended with a mayonnaise or a bland boiled dressing and passed with the salad.
Did we eat it? Yes
Make it again? No
Notes: Used leftover mixture to make an egg salad sandwich. Also, didn't have parsley so used cilantro. The cilantro made the salad.

Tomato and Barley Soup
1 quart canned tomatoes
2 quarts boiling water
1 cupful pearl barley
1/4 tsp pepper
4 tbs margarin
2 medium-sized onions
1 1/2 tsp salt
Brown the margarin, put in the onions cut in small pieces, and fry until tender. Then add the boiling water, tomatoes, barley and seasonings. Cook for two to three hours, over a slow fire.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I Make it again? Yes
Notes: Used broth instead of water and left out the salt. Added a little basil and a little more barley.

Candied Yams
3 medium-sized sweet potatoes
2 tbs margarin
1 to 1 1/2 cupfuls sirup from canned peaches
Boil the potatoes until nearly tender. Peel and slice lengthwise. Lay in a shallow pan, preferably glass or earthenware, pour over them the juice, and add dots of margarin. Bake for thirty minutes in a 400 F oven. Raise the heat to brown, or brown under broiler flame.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I Make it again? Yes
Notes: The first group of potatoes I boiled and they turned to mush. The second time around simply peeled and sliced and added the juice.

Celery Savory
2 large stalks celery
1 large onion
2 green peppers
2 tbs butter
Chop all rather coarsely and fry slowly in the butter till tender. Serve with steak.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Yes

Hamburg Roll
2 pounds ground round steak
1/2 cupful soft bread-crumbs.
1 egg
1 3/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1 tsp sage
2 medium onions
1 cupful canned tomatoes
1 1/2 cupfuls bread flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tbs shortening
about 1/2 cupful milk
To the ground steak add the bread crumbs, the egg slightly beaten, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of salt, the pepper, and sage. Mix well, form into a long, narrow roll, and lace in a roasting pan. Slice the onion and place around the roll. Pour the tomatoes over the top. Bake 450 F for twenty minutes. Meanwhile sift together flour, baking powder and 1/4 teaspoonful of salt; work in the shortening thoroughly and add the milk gradually, mixing to a soft dough. Roll out into oblong shape and completely wrap around the meat loaf. Return to the oven and bake at 450 F for 12 minutes or until the dough is thoroughly baked and golden brown. Serve in slices with a gravy made from the juices in the pan.
Did we eat it? Yes
Would I make it again? Yes
Notes: Baking times took longer. Perhaps didn't make narrow enough. Don't do what I did and place it in the center to wrap. Next time will place on the edge and wrap over so the seam isn't at the top.

Boiled Oregon Prune Cake
1 1/2 cupfuls dried prunes
1/3 cupful melted shortening
3/4 cupful sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 cupful prune juice
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 3/4 cupfuls pastry flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg white
Wash the prunes. Soak overnight in cold water, pit, and cut to raisin size. Cover with boiling water, and cook until tender. Cream together the sugar and melted shortening. Add the egg-yolks, slightly beaten. Sift together the dry ingredients and add to the mixture alternately with the prune juice. Then add the prune pulp, vanilla, and last the egg-white beaten stiff. Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 325 F for one and 1/4 hours.
Did we eat it? Some of it.
Would I make it again? Probably not.
Notes: Surprisingly, wasn't very sweet. Might make a better muffin.