A Calendar of Dinners
January 1
*Black Bean Soup
Roast Leg of Mutton, Currant Jelly
Stewed Tomatoes, Baked Sweet Potatoes
Macedoine Salad
Cheese Straws
Fruit Cake Coffee
*Black Bean Soup—2 cups black beans, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 onion, 1 lemon, 2 quarts stock or water, 2 stalks celery, 2 hard-cooked eggs, 1-1/2 tablespoons flour, 3 cloves, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, red pepper, and mustard to taste.
Wash beans and soak over night; in morning drain, cover with boiling water and boil 30 minutes; drain, throwing away water. Slice onion, dice celery, and cook 5 minutes in half of Crisco in soup pot; add beans, stock or water, and cloves. Simmer until beans are soft, add more water as stock or water boils away. Rub through sieve, add remaining Crisco and flour rubbed together, then heat to boiling point, add seasonings. Cut lemon in thin slices, removing seeds, and cut eggs in thin slices. Put them into a hot soup tureen, and strain soup over them.
January 2
Palestine Soup
*Jugged Hare, Red Currant Jelly
Brussels Sprouts Potato Puff
Endive Salad
Cheese Fingers
Vanilla Souffle Coffee
*Jugged Hare—1 hare, 1 cup Crisco, 1-1/2 pounds gravy beef, 1 onion, 1 lemon, 6 cloves, 1 cup port wine, few forcemeat balls, salt, red pepper and pepper to taste.
Skin, paunch and wash hare, cut it into pieces, dredge with flour, and fry in hot Crisco. Have ready 1-1/2 pints gravy, made from beef, and thickened with flour. Put this into jar; add pieces of fried hare, onion stuck with cloves, lemon peeled and sliced, and seasonings; cover jar tightly, put into saucepan of boiling water, and let it stew until hare is quite tender, taking care to keep the water boiling. When nearly ready pour in wine, add forcemeat balls, and allow to cook 10 minutes. Serve with red currant jelly.
For forcemeat balls, mix together in basin, 2 tablespoons Crisco,4 tablespoons crumbs, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning, 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind, seasoning of salt, pepper, red pepper, and paprika, and 1 beaten egg, form into small balls, roll in flour, and add to hare.
January 3
*Lobster Bisque Toasted Crackers
Olives Celery Pickles
Roast Pigeons Sweet Potatoes
Fried Hominy
Lettuce Salad Cheese Balls
Lemon Meringue Pie Coffee
*Lobster Bisque—4 tablespoons flour, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 head celery, 2 lobsters, 1 small onion, 6 whole white peppers, 4 sprigs parsley, 1 quart milk, white pepper to taste.
Cover lobsters with boiling water, add salt, celery diced, whole peppers, parsley and onion. Cook until lobsters’ claws can easily be pulled apart; it will probably take 25 minutes. When cool enough to handle, cut lobsters down back, remove meat from body and claws. Save coral. Put back all tough parts with small claws and shells, and cook for 20 minutes in same liquor. Liquor must be considerably reduced. Dry coral, rub through sieve. Blend Crisco and flour in saucepan over fire, stir in milk, let this come to boil, add 2 cups of strained lobster broth. Bring to boiling point, season with salt and pepper, and stir in sifted coral enough to give liquid bright pink color. Place lobster meat cut in fine pieces in hot tureen, pour hot mixture over and serve hot.
January 4
Lentil Soup
Roast Loin of Pork, Apple Sauce
Potato Balls Artichokes, a la Creme
*Orange Salad Cheese Fingers
Pineapple Pudding Coffee
*Orange Salad—1 tablespoon brandy, 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon chopped tarragon, 1 teaspoon chopped chervil, and 6 oranges.
Cut peel from oranges, carefully removing all pith, cut out pulpy pieces in each of natural divisions so that there is no skin of any kind or pips taken out with pieces fruit, sprinkle over these pieces tarragon, chervil, melted Crisco, brandy and sugar. This salad should be placed on ice if possible 1 hour before serving.
January 5
Cheese Canapes
Julienne Soup Bread Sticks
*Roast Stuffed Chicken, Brown Gravy
Creamed Cauliflower Potato Croquettes
Olive Salad Cheese Relish
Pistachio Ice Cream Coffee
*Roast Stuffed Chicken—6 tablespoons breadcrumbs, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons chopped cooked ham, 1 beaten egg, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 1 chicken, 2 tablespoons milk, seasoning red pepper, white pepper, salt, powdered mace and herbs to taste.
Clean and draw chicken. Melt Crisco, add it to crumbs, ham, egg, parsley, milk, and seasonings; mix and place in breast of fowl. If young chicken leave on feet, which should be scalded and skinned; if an older bird, cut off legs half-way to first joint, turn back pinions, run skewer through them, catching top part of legs; tie bottom part of legs together. Set in hot oven from 3/4 to 1-1/4 hours, according to size; baste well with melted Crisco, and about 15 minutes before it is finished dredge with flour and brown. To make brown gravy, pour from tin fat, sprinkle in 2 teaspoons browned flour, then add 1 cup boiling water, containing 1/2 teaspoon extract beef, salt and pepper; allow this to boil 3 minutes, strain over chicken, or serve in sauceboat.
January 6
Oyster Cocktail
Fried Cod Steaks
Potatoes au Gratin *Stewed Tomatoes
Cold Slaw Cheese Wafers
Cocoanut Pudding Coffee
*Stewed Tomatoes—1 can tomatoes, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 cup breadcrumbs, seasoning salt, pepper and paprika.
Empty tomatoes into double boiler, add breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, and paprika, and cook slowly for 1/2 an hour, stirring from time to time. Just before serving add Crisco and stir till melted. While the tomatoes will be ready with 1/2 hour’s cooking, they are improved by cooking 1 hour, and are better still if warmed again after cooling.
January 7
Clam Cocktail
Boiled Salmon with Parsley Butter
Roast Duck, Olive Sauce and Fried Hominy
Riced Potatoes French Peas
Creamed Salsify Celery Mayonnaise
*Cheese Ramekins
Banbury Tarts Coffee
*Cheese Ramekins—4 tablespoons flour, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup milk, 3 whole eggs, 1 white egg, salt, white pepper, and red pepper to taste, and 1/2 cup grated cheese.
In saucepan, mix Crisco and flour over fire, when smooth stir in milk, and cook until thick, add seasonings; mix well. Remove pan from fire, add yolks eggs 1 by 1, mix each thoroughly, then mix in cheese, and fold in stiffly beaten white egg. Pour into Criscoed ramekins, and bake in hot oven 15 minutes. Serve hot.
January 8
Cherry Cocktail
Corn Soup Crisp Crackers
Pot Roast with Dumplings
Lettuce and Radish Salad
*Cheese Biscuits
Spice Jelly Coffee
*Cheese Biscuits—4 teaspoons flour, 6 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 yolk of egg, 2 teaspoons cold water, salt and red pepper to taste.
Mix flour and cheese; add salt and red pepper to taste. Rub in Crisco lightly. Mix yolk egg with water; add enough of these to mix flour, etc., to stiff paste. Knead till smooth on floured board, then roll out and cut into biscuits with small cutter; lay on Criscoed tin and bake in quick oven 8 to 10 minutes, or until they are a delicate biscuit color. They require to be carefully watched, as they burn easily. Parmesan cheese is best, but other dry kinds can be used. The biscuits are brittle, so always prepare more than are actually required. They rewarm well with care.
January 9
Vermicelli Soup
*Beef Loaf, Tomato Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Baked Squash
Apple and Celery Salad
Cheese Wafers
Mince Pie Coffee
*Beef Loaf—2 pounds lean meat, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1/4 pound salt pork, 1 cup cracker crumbs, 3 beaten eggs, 1 teaspoon onion juice, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 cup beef stock, salt and pepper to taste.
Wipe meat, remove all skin and membranes, then put it through meat grinder, add Crisco melted, eggs, crumbs, onion juice, lemon juice, stock and seasonings. Press into greased pan and cover. Bake 1 hour. Baste occasionally during baking with melted Crisco.
January 10
Cream of Carrot Soup
Pickles Celery Olives
*Beef Steak and Kidney Pie
Baked Potatoes Scalloped Onions
Cauliflower Salad
Cheese Crackers
Lemon Snow Coffee
*Beef Steak and Kidney Pie—2 pounds lean steak, 4 sheep’s kidneys, some melted Crisco, salt and pepper to taste, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, and some pie crust.
Cut steak very thinly and dip it in melted Crisco, then in flour seasoned with salt and pepper. Roll up pieces of steak and lay them in fireproof baking dish. Skin kidneys, cut them in thin slices, leaving out fat in middle kidney; dip them also in seasonings and lay them on top of meat. Sprinkle in Worcestershire sauce and fill up dish with water. Roll pastry rather larger than size required for dish. Wet edge of dish and put narrow band of paste round; wet band, place on it remainder of paste, which cut to size of dish, then pinch edges, and brush over with beaten egg. Make large hole in top and into this put ends some leaf-shaped pieces of paste, with an ornament in center; brush leaves over with egg and bake in hot oven 1-1/2 hours.
January 11
Tomato Bisque
Pickled Peaches Celery
*Roast Rabbit, Currant Jelly Sauce
Hominy Squares
Riced Potatoes Boiled Onions
Cranberry Salad
Apricot Tapioca
Coffee
*Roast Rabbit—6 tablespoons breadcrumbs, 3 tablespoons chopped cooked ham, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind, 1/2 teaspoon powdered herbs, 3 chopped mushrooms, three beaten eggs, 1 rabbit, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste. Beat up eggs, add mushrooms, Crisco, ham, breadcrumbs, parsley, and seasonings, and mix well. Wipe rabbit, and season inside with pepper, salt, and powdered cloves. Lay forcemeat inside rabbit and sew top; skewer head back and legs on each side; roast 1 hour, basting well with melted Crisco. Serve hot with currant jelly sauce.
January 12
Clear Soup
Roast Duck, Plum Jelly
Mashed Turnips *Potato Croquettes
Apple Salad
Hot Cheese Wafers
Grape Fruit Jelly Coffee
*Potato Croquettes—2 pints mashed potatoes, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste.
Mash potatoes by rubbing them through wire sieve with back of wooden spoon; dissolve Crisco, add it to potatoes with 1 of eggs well beaten and seasonings. Mix and divide into 10 or 12 pieces, form them into neat croquettes, brush over with remaining beaten egg, toss in breadcrumbs, and fry in hot Crisco.
January 13
Oysters on Half Shell
Radishes Pickled Pears
*Mutton Cutlets
Potato Balls Chestnut Puree
Lettuce, French Dressing
Pineapple Bavarian Cream
Cakes Coffee
*Mutton Cutlets—Slit 1 pound chestnuts, place in hot oven to loosen skins, shell and take off inner skin. Place in saucepan with gravy to cover and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Boil until tender, then drain and rub through sieve. Chop fine 2 slices ham, add 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1/4 pound chestnut puree, season with salt, pepper and red pepper. Add 1 egg yolk and mix. Trim 8 cutlets, make 1/4 cup Crisco hot in frying pan, cook cutlets 1 minute on right side only, then arrange them flat on dish, cover with another with weight on top, leave until cold. Spread puree over cooked side of cutlets, brush with beaten egg and cover with breadcrumbs. Fry on both sides, and place in oven 5 minutes. Dish in circle on mashed potatoes; fill center with fried potato balls and sprinkle with, chopped parsley. Serve with gravy.
January 14
Cream of Cheese Soup
Celery Olives
*Codfish Balls
Baked Potatoes
Baked Macaroni and Peas
Spinach Salad
Cheese Relish Fig Pudding
Coffee
*Codfish Balls—2 cupfuls mashed potatoes, 1-1/2 cupfuls shredded codfish, 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful Crisco, melted, 1/8 teaspoonful pepper. Put codfish in wire strainer, let cold water run through and squeeze dry. Mix the hot, unseasoned potatoes with codfish. To this add the melted Crisco, beaten egg and pepper. Beat well. Shape in balls and fry in deep Crisco until a golden brown color.
January 15
Vegetable Soup
Pickled Beets Celery Olives
Sauted Chicken, Brown Gravy
*Candied Sweet Potatoes
Lettuce and Green Pepper Salad
Plum Pudding, Hard Sauce
Coffee
*Candied Sweet Potatoes—12 sweet potatoes, 1 cup boiling water, brown sugar, 1/4 cup Crisco, salt, pepper, and powdered cinnamon. Pare and parboil potatoes, cut in halves, boil 10 minutes, drain, lay in greased baking dish. Spread with Crisco, sprinkle with brown sugar, salt, pepper, and powdered cinnamon, pour in boiling water and cook until tender. Baste often with sauce in pan while cooking. The cinnamon may be omitted.
January 16
*Lettuce Cocktail
Cream of Spinach Soup
Broiled Hamburg Steak
Baked Potatoes Brussels Sprouts
Pineapple Salad
Cheese Balls
Urney Pudding
Coffee
*Lettuce Cocktail—1 crisp head of lettuce, 4 tablespoons tomato catsup, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, 4 hard-cooked eggs, 4 tablespoons vinegar, 3 tablespoons sugar, 4 small onions, and salt to taste.
Cut lettuce fine with scissors and shred eggs and onions. Melt Crisco, when cool, add tomato catsup, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, vinegar and salt. At serving time pour this sauce over lettuce, eggs and onions. Serve very cold in cocktail glasses.
January 17
Prune Cocktail
*Brown Fricassee of Chicken
Boiled Rice Baking Powder Biscuit
Apple and Celery Salad
Mince Pie
Coffee
*Brown Fricassee of Chicken—Draw, singe, and joint chicken. Put 4 tablespoons Crisco in saucepan; when brown, put in chicken. Stir until every piece is nicely browned, then add 2 tablespoons flour, stir again, add 1 pint boiling water or stock, stir until it boils; add 1 teaspoon of salt. Cover, and let simmer gently until tender, then add 1 teaspoon onion juice, and little black pepper. Put neck-piece, heart, liver, gizzard, and back pieces in center of dish; put 2 pieces of breast on top, second joints on one side of plate, legs crossed on other, and wing at each end of plate. Pour sauce over, sprinkle with chopped parsley, and serve.
January 18
Broiled Halibut
Maitre d’Hotel Potatoes
*Escalloped Tomatoes
Lettuce, French Dressing
Pumpkin Pie Cheese Squares
Coffee
*Escalloped Tomatoes—Drain juice from 1 can tomatoes. Brush baking dish over with Crisco, and cover bottom with tomatoes; dot with Crisco, dredge with pepper and salt, and sprinkle generously with breadcrumbs: arrange another layer of tomatoes, and crumbs, and so proceed until dish is filled. Pour over all enough of juice of tomatoes to moisten well, and then finish dish with covering of crumbs. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven.
January 19
Consomme with Vermicelli
Grated Parmesan Cheese
Fried Oysters, Sauce Tartare
*Mushrooms Cooked Under Glass Bells
Supreme of Chicken
Asparagus, Cream Glacé
Orange Ice Coffee
*Mushrooms Cooked Under Glass Bells—Saute 1/2 pound of peeled mushroom caps, in 3 tablespoons Crisco, season with salt and paprika, add 1 cup of cream, cover and let simmer until reduced a little. Arrange mushrooms on round of bread in mushroom dish, pour liquid over, cover with glass bell and bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Send to table without removing glass, which confines delicate flavor and aroma of mushrooms.
January 20
Clam Chowder
Rolled Beefsteak, Peanut Butter Sauce
Succotash Boiled Onions
*Cream Cheese and Pimiento Salad
Baked Custard Lady Fingers
Black Coffee
*Cream Cheese and Pimiento Salad—Wash and dry 1 can pimientoes. Fill them with creamed cheese. Chill, slice and serve on crisp lettuce leaves with following dressing: Mix 1/2 tablespoon salt, 1/2 tablespoon mustard, 3/4 tablespoon sugar, and 1 tablespoon flour, and when thoroughly blended, add 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten, 3 tablespoons melted Crisco, 3/4 cup milk, and 1/4 cup vinegar. Cook in double boiler, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Strain and cool.
January 21
*Cream of Lettuce Soup
Roast Shoulder of Mutton, Caper Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Baked Squash
Celery Salad Cheese Wafers
Apple Tapioca Coffee
*Cream of Lettuce Soup—3 cups white stock, 2 heads lettuce, 2 tablespoons cooked rice, 1/4 cup cream, 1/4 tablespoon onion, finely chopped, 1 tablespoon Crisco, yolk 1 egg, nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste. Remove outer leaves from lettuce and shred it. Cook onion 5 minutes in Crisco, add lettuce, rice, and stock. Add cream, yolk egg slightly beaten, nutmeg, salt, and pepper to taste.
January 22
Filleted Anchovies with Lemon
Celery Ripe Olives
Salted Pistachio Nuts
Consomme, a la Royale
*Halibut Turbans
Roast Goose, Apple Jelly
Potato Puff Mashed Turnip
Endive and Roquefort Cheese Salad
Coupe St. Jacques Coffee
*Halibut Turbans—Have 4 slices halibut cut 1/2 an inch thick; remove skin and bone, thus securing 16 fillets. Dip in melted Crisco; squeeze over juice of 1 lemon, little onion juice and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Commencing with the widest end, roll each fillet into a “turban” and fasten by running through each Criscoed wooden skewer. Bake 20 minutes, basting with hot stock, or Crisco melted in hot water. Arrange crown shape on serving dish. Fill the center with boiled potato-balls, dressed with salt, Crisco, and chopped parsley. Serve with Hollandaise sauce.
January 23
Barley Soup Corned Beef
*Ladies’ Cabbage Fried Celery
Beet Salad
Cheese Crackers
Arrowroot Pudding with Stewed Fruit
Coffee
*Ladies’ Cabbage—Cut small, hard head cabbage into halves; remove core and harder portions, chop remaining part quite fine. Throw this into kettle of boiling salted water, boil uncovered for 30 minutes; drain in colander. Put cabbage back in saucepan, add 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour; dust flour over cabbage; stir carefully with wooden spoon, and add 1/2 pint of milk, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1 saltspoon of white pepper. Stand this on back part of stove to simmer 10 minutes; send to table.
January 24
Blue Points Brown Bread Sandwiches
Broiled Squabs
Potato Croquettes
*Cauliflower au Gratin
Asparagus Salad
Cheese Fingers
Spanish Cream
Coffee
*Cauliflower au Gratin—Boil 1 large cauliflower, drain it, and break sprigs apart. Arrange in layers in Criscoed baking dish, sprinkling each layer with cheese, seasoning it with pepper and salt, and little melted Crisco. When dish is filled pour on 1 cup white sauce, sprinkle top with crumbs and cheese, and let bake 15 minutes to brown.
January 25
Sardines on Toast, Caper Sauce
*Risotto Peas
Fried Canned Tomatoes
Lettuce and Hard-Cooked Eggs
Jellied Prunes Whipped Cream
Gold Cake
Coffee
*Risotto—1/2 pound rice, 1 small onion, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 1/2 pint tomato sauce, about 1 pint good stock, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and 1/2 teaspoon saffron.
Wash rice in several courses of water, drain and dry. Peel and chop onion. Melt Crisco in stewpan; when hot add onion, fry over gentle fire until light fawn color, then add rice; shake pan over fire for a few minutes, so as to fry rice a little. Next add seasoning, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and saffron; moisten with little stock, and add more as rice begins to swell. When stock is used up, gradually add sauce. When rice is tender mix in grated cheese. It is then ready to serve. In preparing this dish remember that rice should be well done, and should be neither too dry nor too moist.
January 26
Onion Soup
Roast Chicken, Chestnut Stuffing,
Giblet Sauce
Cranberries Celery au Jus
Baked Macaroni with Cheese
*Grapefruit Salad
Burnt Almond Ice Cream
Coffee
*Grapefruit Salad—Take out inside of grapefruit, and cut edge of shell into points; slice meat of fruit with 2 oranges, 1 cup pineapple, 1 cup cherries, 1/2 cup chopped nut meats, 1 diced apple, the juice of 1 lemon, and 3 tablespoons powdered sugar; fill shell, and serve with following dressing:
Beat yolks 2 eggs until creamy, then add to them 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard and same quantity salt. Next beat in slowly 4 tablespoons melted Crisco and 6 tablespoons hot vinegar. Cook in double boiler until it thickens. When cold, and just before serving, 1 cup of cream, sweet or sour, may be folded in.
January 27
Shrimp Cocktail
*Salmon Croquettes, Tomato Sauce
French Peas Mashed Potatoes
Pickled Mangoes
Cottage Pudding, Maple Sauce
Coffee
*Salmon Croquettes—1 pound can salmon, 1/2 teaspoon salt, red pepper to taste, 1/4 cup crackercrumbs, 1/2 teaspoon grated onion, 1 well beaten egg, 1 tablespoon Crisco, and 1 tablespoon chopped parsley.
From 1 can salmon, opened neatly, take fish and chop it fine; add salt and pepper, Crisco, parsley and crackercrumbs; moisten it with the egg and mix well, turn out upon dish; then roll into cones, dip these in beaten egg seasoned with salt and pepper, roll in breadcrumbs. Fry in deep Crisco until delicate brown, drain them a moment, arrange neatly on hot dish and serve with tomato sauce. The Crisco should be heated until crumb of bread becomes golden brown in 40 seconds.
January 28
*Croutes, a la Marie
Oyster Balls, Horseradish Sauce
Potato Souffle
Baked Cucumbers
Nut and Celery Salad
Chocolate Bavarian Cream
Coffee
*Croutes, a la Marie—Pass 1 small tureen foie gras through fine wire sieve. Put in basin, add 1 teaspoon Crisco, pepper and salt to taste, and then stir in gently 1/2 a gill cream. Pipe with a star tube on to round croute of short crust; garnish with pimientoes cut in strips and whipped cream.
January 29
Lobster Canapes
Cream of Oyster Soup Crackers
Olives Celery
Planked Shad, Roe Sauce
Duchess Potatoes
Cucumbers, French Dressing
*Cabinet Pudding
Coffee
*Cabinet Pudding—8 stale lady fingers, 12 macaroons, 3 tablespoons cherries, currants, and citron peel chopped fine, 1 tablespoon sugar, 3 eggs, 1 pint milk, 2 teaspoons Crisco, and vanilla extract.
Decorate bottom of mold with some fruit, lay row macaroons round edge of bottom. Cut ladyfingers into pieces, mix with fruit and loosely fill mold. Beat eggs with little cold milk, and 2 teaspoons Crisco, scald remainder of milk, and pour on to eggs, beating at the same time. Sweeten and flavor to taste. Gently pour this into mold. Cover with Criscoed paper and place in steamer to cook until set. This will take 3/4 of an hour. Let pudding stand 1 minute or 2 before turning out. Serve with custard sauce.
January 30
*Croutes, a la Rosamonde
Roast Tenderloin of Pork
Sweet Potatoes, Southern Style
Spinach, a la Creme
Parmesan Cheese
Apple Salad
Cranberry Pie
Coffee
*Croutes, a la Rosamonde—Take some small round tomatoes, and cut in slices 1/4 inch thick. Lay in dish and sprinkle with melted Crisco, vinegar, pepper and salt. Then make some round croutes of short paste little larger than tomato; place 1 slice tomato on each, 1 rolled fillet anchovy on top, and garnish with 1 hard-cooked egg yolk and small piece white endive.
January 31
Spinach Soup
*Irish Stew Baked Macaroni
Onion and Lettuce Salad
Cheese Puffs
Golden Parfait
Coffee
*Irish Stew—1 pound middle neck mutton, 2 pounds potatoes, 4 onions, 1 tablespoon Crisco, bunch of herbs, pepper and salt, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, and cold water.
Put Crisco into saucepan with mutton which should be cut into small pieces. Peel and quarter onions, and put them in saucepan, add herbs and barely cover with cold water. Peel potatoes, choose small ones and do not cut them up, and lay over meat, sprinkle little salt and pepper on potatoes and bring to boil. Then add flour and stand saucepan where it will stew gently 2 hours. Take out herbs, season to taste with salt and pepper. Dish up meat in circle on flat dish, put potatoes and onions in center, leaving 1 potato in saucepan, to mash and thicken the gravy a little, pour gravy over stew, and sprinkle with parsley. Inferior cuts of mutton can be used advantageously for this dish, such as scrag-end or breast of mutton; the bones and gristle with long stewing give a nice flavor to the dish.
February 1
*Braised Loin of Mutton with
Mushrooms
Boiled Potatoes
Spinach Garnished with Hard-Cooked
Eggs
Spiced Currants
Carrot Salad Coffee Jelly
Coffee
*Braised Loin of Mutton with Mushrooms—3 pounds loin mutton, 1 stalk celery, 1/2 teaspoon whole peppers, 1 bunch of sweet herbs, 2 tablespoons Crisco, pepper, salt, red pepper, 1 turnip, 1 carrot, 2 or 3 cloves, sprig of parsley, and 2 tablespoons flour.
Remove bone from mutton, thoroughly rub it with salt, pepper, and red pepper; roll up and tie into roll; cut up celery, onion, carrot, and turnip, and lay them at bottom of stewpan with sweet herbs and parsley; lay mutton on top of these, and pour round enough water to 3 parts cover it, simmer slowly 1-1/2 to 2 hours; lift mutton into dripping tin with few tablespoons gravy; set in brisk oven until brown; strain gravy and skim off fat, put Crisco into saucepan, and when brown, add flour, and brown also; then add gravy gradually, little pepper and salt, and 1 dozen button mushrooms, skinned; boil 8 minutes; dish mutton with mushrooms round, and gravy strained over.
February 2
*Artichoke Soup
Fried Fillets of Fish, Sauce Tartare
Riced Potatoes
Onions Stuffed with Nuts
Egg Salad Toasted Cheese
Russian Charlotte
Coffee
*Artichoke Soup—2 pints white stock or water, 1 pint milk, 2 pounds Jerusalem artichokes, 2 onions, 1 bay leaf, 1 strip celery, 2 tablespoons Crisco, pepper and salt to taste.
Wash artichokes, put 1 tablespoon vinegar into basin of water and keep artichokes in it as much as possible while paring them, to preserve their whiteness. Cut onions, bay leaf, celery, and artichokes into slices, melt Crisco in stewpan, fry vegetables 10 or 15 minutes without browning; then pour in stock and boil until tender. Rub through fine sieve, return to saucepan, add milk and seasoning, bring to boil and serve.
When a thicker soup is desired 1 dessertspoon of cornstarch, flour, or a mashed potato should be blended with little milk or stock, and added to soup a few minutes before serving.
February 3
Consomme du Barry
Roast Ribs of Beef
*Franconia Potatoes
Corn Cakes
Mashed Turnips
Radish Salad
Marshmallow Pudding
Coffee
*Franconia Potatoes—Pare 10 medium-sized potatoes; parboil five minutes. Place on grate under roast ribs of beef. Baste with melted Crisco, and bake from 20 to 30 minutes, turning often.
February 4
Steamed Oysters
Lamb’s Tongues, Tremont Style
Browned Potatoes
* Anchovy Fritters Romaine Salad
Madeira Jelly
Coffee
*Anchovy Fritters—Pound yolks 2 hard-cooked eggs with 1/2 dozen bottled anchovies, 1 teaspoon capers 4 tablespoons Crisco and 4 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese. Rub all through fine wire sieve and add yolk 1 raw egg and 1 tablespoon breadcrumbs. Season with pepper and with salt if it is needed.
Form paste into small balls, roll first in breadcrumbs, then in egg and again in crumbs, and drop into hot Crisco. Serve on napkin with grated Parmesan cheese. The recipe as here given may be doubled, and “redoubled” as many times as it is thought the demand for fritters will warrant.
February 5
Broiled Smelts
Chicken, a la Florentine
Brussels Sprouts with Cheese
Spanish Salad Cheese Loaf
*Date Souffle
Coffee
*Date Souffle—Stone and chop 1/2 pound dates and cook them in 1/2 cup boiling water, mashing until smooth. Add 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, stiffly beaten whites 5 eggs, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and salt to taste. Pour into Criscoed souffle mold and bake until brown, or 25 minutes. Serve cold with boiled custard or whipped cream.
February 6
Rose and White Radishes with Butter
Cream of Mutton Soup
Baked Bluefish, Breslin Style
*Planked Chicken
Jerusalem Artichokes Saute
Apple and Cress Salad
Snow Pudding with Chocolate Sauce
Coffee
Planked Chicken—Cream together 1/4 cup Crisco, 1 teaspoon minced onion, 1/4 tablespoon each of minced red pepper, green pepper, and parsley, 1/2 clove minced garlic, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice.
Split 1 young chicken as for broiling, place in pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dot over with Crisco, and bake until nearly done in a quick oven. Then Crisco plank, arrange upon it border made from 2 cups of hot mashed potatoes to which have been added seasoning and beaten yolks of 3 eggs. This is put on with a pastry tube and may be made as fanciful as desired, with rosettes and pyramids. Brush over with beaten egg diluted slightly with water, and place chicken in center. Peel and saute 8 large mushroom caps, place on chicken (which has been spread with prepared butter), place in very hot oven to brown potatoes and finish cooking chicken. Serve on plank at once.
February 7
Crab Canapes
St. Germain Soup
*Braised Fillet of Beef
French Bean Salad
Bar-Le-Duc Cream
Fruits Nuts
Biscuits Cheese Coffee
*Braised Fillet of Beef—Tie up fillet of beef neatly with string and put in stewpan, bottom of which has been well Criscoed and lined with thin slices fat bacon and 2 sliced onions. Cook for 20 minutes, then barely cover with stock, add 1 wineglass of sherry, and bring to a boil; then add 1 small onion stuck with cloves, 1 small turnip, 1 carrot, 1 bouquet of herbs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt and pepper to taste.
Let meat simmer gently in this for 1-1/2 to 2 hours. For garnish, take equal quantities of French peas and string beans, artichoke bottoms, new carrots and turnips. Cut latter in uniform shapes with fancy vegetable cutter, and cook them separate in consomme. Strain off about 3/4 pint of stock from fillet of beef, and pour on brown roux, made with 2 tablespoons each of flour and Crisco; stir until it boils, add small piece of glaze and reduce a little over quick fire. Add dash of kitchen bouquet, salt, and pepper. Dish up fillet of beef, glaze it with some of sauce, and arrange vegetables around it in little heaps, each kind separate. Serve remainder of sauce in a boat.
February 8
Faubonne Soup
Baked Fish
Grenadins of Veal
Roast Pigeons Endive Salad
*Fruit Snowballs
Coffee
*Fruit Snowballs—Cream 1/4 cup Crisco with 1/2 cup sugar, add 1/4 cup milk, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and 3 stiffly beaten egg whites. Mix and divide into small Criscoed molds, cover with Criscoed papers, and steam 35 minutes. Turn out, sprinkle with powdered sugar, garnish with candied cherries and pineapple and serve with custard sauce made with egg yolks.
February 9
Petite Marmite
*Goulash of Veal
Cauliflower, Cream Sauce
Braised Endive Orange Salad
Mousseline Pudding
Coffee
*Goulash of Veal—1-1/2 pounds lean veal, 1 pound partly cooked new potatoes, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 small onion, 1/2 pint cream, paprika, pepper, and salt. Free meat from skin and sinews and cut it into dice. Cut potatoes into cubes. Melt Crisco in saucepan, add meat and fry lightly for several minutes, add onion, finely chopped, stir over fire for about 5 minutes, season with salt and pepper to taste and add potatoes. Pour off superfluous fat, mix carefully and moisten with cream and 1 tablespoon rich white stock, season with a sufficiency of paprika pepper to give sauce a pink tint, and cook gently for 20 minutes. It is best to cook the Goulash at latter stage in a fireproof earthenware stewpan, in which it should be sent to table. Great care must be taken so as not to break potatoes while cooking. Serve very hot.
February 10
Broiled Beefsteak
Baked Potatoes Creamed Onions
Waldorf Salad
Jellied Figs Nut Cookies
Coffee
*Waldorf Salad—1 quart chopped apples, 2 cups diced celery, 1-1/2 cups blanched and shredded almonds, and 2/3 cup rolled pecan nut meats.
Dress with following dressing, adding little more sugar and lemon juice to taste, just before serving. Mix 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, 1 teaspoon each mustard and white sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add 2 well beaten egg yolks and then beat in slowly 4 tablespoons lemon juice. Cook in double boiler till it thickens. Then add whites 2 eggs beaten stiff. Keep on ice till wanted. Stir in 1 cup whipped cream just before serving. This is very good made with 5 egg yolks and 1/2 cup thin cream if whipping cream is unobtainable.
February 11
Cream Soup
Flounder au Gratin
Veal Cutlets, Brown Gravy
Creamed Potatoes
Cauliflower Polonaise
Radish Salad
*Friar’s Omelet
Coffee
*Friar’s Omelet—Peel and core 1 pound cooking apples, and boil to pulp with little water and sugar. When nearly, cold add 1 tablespoon Crisco and 1 or 2 well beaten eggs.
Crisco a pudding dish and coat thickly with breadcrumbs. Pour in mixture and cover thickly with more breadcrumbs. Cook in oven for 3/4 of an hour. A little lemon peel can be added if liked.
February 12
Gravy Soup
Fish Souffle
Beef Olives
Braised Turnips Carrots
Potato Puff
Apple and Grapefruit Salad
*Coburg Pudding
Coffee
*Coburg Pudding—3 cups milk, 1/2 cup rice, 1 cup boiling water, 1 egg, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon, 1 tablespoon Crisco, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Well wash rice, sprinkle it into boiling water and cook gently until all water is absorbed. Heat milk, in double saucepan if possible, add half-cooked rice and boil gently until it is perfectly soft and of thick creamy consistency. Should it become too thick before it is really soft, add more milk. Beat egg, until very light, add half sugar to it. When rice is cooked, whisk egg in at once, a little at a time. Then add salt and piece of Crisco size of walnut. Turn mixture into dish in which it is to be served. Mix rest of sugar with cinnamon. Sprinkle this evenly over top of rice. Put rest of Crisco in small pieces over top of pudding just before it is required. Place pudding in front of fire, or in oven for second or two, when Crisco, etc., will form a delicious sauce over surface of pudding.
February 13
*Bombay Toast
Boiled Halibut, Lobster Sauce
Roast Capon Beet and Potato Salad
Cheese Ramekins
Peach Border
Coffee
*Bombay Toast—Fry the required number of croutes in Crisco. When cold spread with paste of pounded chicken and cream. Chop some capers, and lay in a thick line across the chicken paste. On one-half put grated yolk of hard-cooked egg, on the other half put grated white of hard-cooked egg, and serve.
Saint Valentine’s Day
February 14
Cupid Canapes
Clam Bouillon
Fillets of Fish
*Supreme of Chicken
Martinique Potatoes Spinach
Kumquat and Celery Salad
Tutti Fruitti Ice Cream Mints
Coffee
*Supreme of Chicken—Remove breast meat from 2 young chickens and trim into shape. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dip in cream, roll in flour and saute in Crisco until delicately browned. Place in small pan, dot over with Crisco, and bake until tender.
Remove to cutlet-shaped pieces of hot boiled ham (cut very thin), garnish top of each with 3 short stalks of asparagus, seasoned with Crisco, and pour around following sauce: Melt 3-1/2 tablespoons Crisco, add 3-1/2 tablespoons flour, and stir until well blended; then pour on gradually while stirring constantly 1 cup chicken stock and 1/2 cup cream. Bring to boiling point, season with salt and paprika, and add yolk of 1 egg.
February 15
Swedish Soup Poached Eggs on Top
Stuffed Breast of Veal
Stewed Tomatoes Fried Carrots
*Apple Tartlets
Coffee
*Apple Tartlets—Line some tartlet tins with Crisco pastry. Fill with stewed apples to which a little melted Crisco and grated nutmeg have been added. Cover with a meringue and brown in the oven for a few minutes.
February 16
Consomme Colbert
Braised Mutton Cutlets with Kidneys
Stuffed Potatoes *Salsify Fritters
Spinach Salad
Cheese Balls
Meringues, a la Chantilly
Coffee
*Salsify Fritters—3 heads salsify, lemon juice, salt, 2 tablespoons milk, 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, fried parsley, 4 tablespoons flour, and 2 eggs. Wash, scrape, and soak the salsify in cold water seasoned with salt and lemon juice to taste. Boil in salted, acidulated water until tender. Take it up when done, drain, and cut the salsify into pieces all the same size. Sieve the flour into a basin, work in the yolks of the eggs, the milk, and the melted Crisco. Beat to a smooth batter, season with salt and pepper to taste. When ready to fry, beat up the whites of eggs very stiffly and stir them lightly into batter. Drop the salsify into the batter, then into hot Crisco and fry to a golden brown color. Take up, drain, and serve garnished with fried parsley.
February 17
Strained Gumbo
Oyster Souffle
*Calf’s Head, Vinaigrette
Baked Eggplant String Beans
Russian Salad Ambrosia
Coffee
*Calf’s Head, Vinaigrette—Clean and scald 1/2 a calf’s head. Cover with water and boil 1/2 an hour, then plunge into cold water. When cool, remove meat and cut in small squares. Make a roux of 1 tablespoon Crisco and 2 tablespoons flour cooked thoroughly; add 4 cloves, 3 whole peppers, small onion, carrot, 2 bay leaves, dash of thyme, and 2 tablespoons strong vinegar. Add the meat. Simmer 2 hours; remove into deep dish and cover with vinaigrette sauce, which is made with 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon paprika, dash white pepper mixed with 3 tablespoons tarragon or plain vinegar. Add 6 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon gherkins, and 1 teaspoon each chives and parsley all chopped very fine, and 1 tablespoon minced green pepper. Blend well before pouring over meat. This may be served either hot or cold. Garnish with cucumber pickles cut into fan shapes.
February 18
*Cheese Canapes
Lamb Chops
French Peas Baked Potatoes
Artichoke Salad
Russian Charlotte Preserved Ginger
Coffee
*Cheese Canapes—8 croutes bread, 1/4 pound cheese, 2 tablespoons Crisco, salt and red pepper to taste, 1 teaspoon mustard, and 1 dessertspoon sherry.
Cut the croutes of bread out of slices of stale bread with a round cutter 2 inches across. Fry the bread a golden color in hot Crisco. Cut up cheese; put it into a mortar with Crisco, and pound until it becomes a smooth paste; then season with salt and red pepper to taste. Add the mustard and sherry. When all ingredients are thoroughly mixed, put it on the croutes of bread; place them in oven until hot through, then serve at once.
February 19
*Mulligatawney Soup
Roast Pork, Frozen Apple Sauce
Potatoes Creamed Onions
Indian Salad
Toasted Biscuits Cheese
Mocha Souffle
Coffee
*Mulligatawney Soup—Saute in 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, 1 minced onion, 1 tablespoon minced cooked ham, 3 cloves, 1/2 carrot, and 1 stick celery, minced fine, 1/2 cup cooked chicken cut in dice, and 3 pints of chicken stock. Cook fifteen minutes, add 1/2 a green apple, diced, 1/2 cup stewed or canned tomatoes, 1 teaspoon tomato catsup, 1 teaspoon curry powder, 2 tablespoons boiled rice, 1 teaspoon salt, and 2 drops Tabasco sauce. Simmer 1/2 hour and serve with or without thin slices of lemon cut in quarters.
February 20
*Onion Cocktail
Halibut, a la Martin
Roast Mutton, Currant Mint Sauce
Okra and Tomatoes
Cucumber Jelly Salad
Spanish Cream Coffee
*Onion Cocktail—2 cups diced apples, 1 cup diced onions, 1 cup seeded raisins. Fill cocktail glasses with onions, apples, raisins, pour over a sour dressing made as follows: 1/4 cup each of vinegar and water, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt and red pepper to taste, and 2 teaspoons sugar. Place in small saucepan over fire until Crisco melts, then stir in well beaten yolks of 2 eggs, stirring constantly until thick. Place in ice box to cool before using.
February 21
Boiled Halibut, Anchovy Butter
Pigeons, a la Chasseur
Griddled White Potatoes
*Stewed Lettuce
Oyster Salad Cheese Relish
Pineapple Cream
Coffee
*Stewed Lettuce—Wash the desired number of heads of lettuce, cutting off the stalks at the roots, and put into a saucepan with 1 onion sliced, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, and salt and pepper to taste, with a very little water, to cook slowly for 2 hours. By this time the water should have pretty well cooked away, leaving the lettuce fairly dry. Remove from it the onion and parsley, put into a dish, dress well with melted butter and send to table hot.
Washington’s Birthday
February 22
Cherry Cocktail
Olives Salted Nuts Oyster Soup
Fried Chicken, Cream Gravy
Peas Sweet Potatoes
White Grape Salad Beaten Biscuits
*Washington Pie
Martha Washington Fruit Cake
Fruit Punch
Coffee
*Washington Pie—3/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon Crisco; beat together thoroughly; add 1/2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 beaten eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon lemon; make into 3 cakes and put jelly or custard between.
February 23
Red Cabbage Soup
*Broiled Kidneys with Green Peppers
French Peas Fried Bananas
Grapefruit and White Grape Salad
Cheese Balls
Russian Jelly
Coffee
*Broiled Kidneys with Green Peppers—Split some fine beef kidneys, remove the outer skin and sinews, and wipe well. Sprinkle the kidneys with pepper and salt, and let stand for an hour or more. Dip them then, into melted Crisco and broil over a clear fire. Meanwhile, chop 2 green peppers, freed from their seeds, and fry with 1/2 a teaspoon chopped onion and 1 tablespoon chopped parsley in Crisco till the pepper is quite done, having no more moisture, or Crisco that is in the pan, than is necessary to cook the green peppers. Dish the kidneys and surround with the sauce of green peppers.
Vegetarian
February 24
Cream of Celery Soup
*Mock Veal Roast Stewed Turnips
Asparagus Salad
Cheese Crackers
Apple Pie
Coffee
*Mock Veal Roast—1/2 pint shelled roasted peanuts, 1/2 pint lentils, 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, 1/2 pint toasted breadcrumbs, milk, pepper and salt to taste.
Soak the lentils over night; drain, bring them to a boil; throw away water; cover with fresh water and boil until tender; drain again; press them through a colander. Add nuts, chopped or ground, melted Crisco, breadcrumbs and seasoning, with sufficient milk to make it the consistency of mush. Pour into baking dish and bake in a moderate oven 1 hour. Beans or peas may be substituted for lentils.
February 25
Clam Broth with Whipped Cream
Boiled Fish Dressed Cucumbers
Panned Chicken
Riced Potatoes *Stuffed Green Peppers
Celery and Lettuce Salad
Caramel Rice Pudding
Coffee
*Stuffed Green Peppers—6 large green peppers, 1 pint boiled rice, 1 tomato, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 medium-sized onion, and 1 teaspoon salt. Cut the tops from peppers and remove seeds. Add to rice the onion and tomato, chopped and salt. Wash peppers, stuff them with boiled rice, put on tops and stand them in a baking pan. Cover bottom of baking pan with a little water; add to it the Crisco. Bake in a quick oven 20 minutes, basting 2 or 3 times.
February 26
Cream of Beet Soup
Pork Tenderloins, Apple Sauce
Baked and Glazed Potatoes
Buttered Parsnips
*Raisin Pudding, Liquid Sauce
Coffee
*Raisin Pudding—Wash and dry 1 pound Sultana raisins; Crisco a pudding dish; put in a layer of boiled rice, over it a layer of raisins, and continue until the dish is nearly full, having rice on top. Beat 2 eggs; add 2 teaspoons sugar, 1 pinch of salt, 3 tablespoons melted Crisco, and 2 cups sweet milk; pour it over pudding, and bake 1/2 hour. Serve with liquid sauce.
February 27
Sago Soup
Brown Stew of Mutton Chops
Stewed Turnips Boiled Potatoes
*Cabbage Salad
Lemon Sponge Coffee
*Cabbage Salad—Shave 2 cups shredded cabbage in thin strips or chop fine and mix with the following dressing: 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup hot vinegar, 1 teaspoon dry mustard, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, 1/2 onion, cut fine, and 1/2 cup sweet or sour cream, milk or water. Dissolve the sugar in cream. Mix with rest of the ingredients. Mix while hot and serve with the salad slightly warmed.
February 28
Consomme with Spaghetti
*Chicken Souffle Creamed Potatoes
Celery and Apple Salad
Stuffed Dates Coffee
*Chicken Souffle—2 cups cold roast chicken, a 1/4 cup cold boiled ham or tongue, 5 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons flour, 1/2 cup cream, 3/4 cup chicken broth, a 1/4 cup chopped nut meats, salt and paprika to taste, and 4 eggs beaten separately.
The chicken, ham or tongue should be chopped very fine before measuring. Melt 3 tablespoons Crisco in a frying pan; add the chopped meat and stir over fire until Crisco is absorbed. Make a sauce of 2 tablespoons Crisco, the flour, broth and cream. Pound the meat in a mortar, adding meanwhile the sauce. Press the whole through a fine sieve; add the nut meats, seasonings and yolks of eggs. Mix thoroughly, and fold in the whites of eggs. Bake in a Criscoed dish till firm in the center. Serve with mushroom or tomato sauce. This may also be cooked in individual dishes. 25 minutes will be needed for cooking in a large dish, about 12 minutes in individual dishes. It is better to cook a souffle too long than too short a time always, provided that the temperature be kept about 208° F.
March 1
*Toad in the Hole
Pressed Beef with Aspic
Beet and Endive Salad
Compote of Fruit, Maids of Honor
Coffee
*Toad in the Hole—2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 pound link sausages, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, and 3 cups milk. Sift the flour and salt into a basin; beat up eggs well, and after mixing them with the milk and melted Crisco, pour gradually on flour, beating it well with a wooden spoon. When quite smooth, pour it into a well Criscoed fireproof dish; skin the sausages and lay them in the batter, and bake in a moderate oven for 3/4 of an hour. Serve in small squares arranged neatly overlapping each other on a hot dish.
March 2
*Oxtail Soup
Trout, Black Butter Sauce
Stewed Steak and Oysters
Pear Salad
Cheese Eclairs
Sweet Omelet
Coffee
*Oxtail Soup—1 oxtail, 2 quarts second stock or water, 2 onions, 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 2 strips celery, 4 tablespoons Crisco, a 1/2 cup diced lean ham or bacon, a boquet-garni, 12 whole peppers, 2 cloves, salt, 1 glass sherry, and 1 tablespoon cornstarch.
Cut the tail into small joints, put it into a stewpan, cover with cold water, boil up and strain. Dry the pieces of oxtail, roll them in flour, put them with ham and sliced vegetables and Crisco into the stewpan, and fry until brown. Then add stock, herbs, whole peppers, cloves, and salt, boil and skim well. Put on lid and cook very gently for about 4 hours. Strain, remove fat, return to stewpan, and when soup boils add sherry and cornstarch smoothly mixed together, stir and cook for a few minutes. Serve smaller pieces of tail in soup, remainder may be reheated in a good brown sauce, and used as an entree.
Vegetarian
March 3
*Grilled Mushrooms
Vegetable Soup
Cheese Omelet
Baked Beans
Iced Asparagus
Fruit in Jelly
Coffee
*Grilled Mushrooms—1 cup mushrooms, pepper and salt to taste, Crisco, and lemon juice. Carefully peel the mushrooms, cut off a portion of stalk, and season with salt. Broil them over a clear fire, turning them once, and arrange them on a very hot dish. Put a small piece of Crisco on each mushroom, season with pepper and salt to taste, and squeeze over them a few drops of lemon juice.
March 4
Spanish Soup
*Baked Stuffed Heart
Mashed Potatoes Fried Beets
Red Cabbage Salad
Orange Pudding
Coffee
*Baked Stuffed Heart—Take an ox heart and season it inside with salt and pepper, and fill it quite full of herb forcemeat; fasten it up with a needle and string, rub the heart over well with melted Crisco and fold it up in a well Criscoed paper; tie it up, put heart in a baking tin in the oven, keeping it well basted with melted Crisco, then remove the paper and dish upon a hot dish, and serve round it a good brown sauce or tomato sauce or brown caper sauce, and garnish with olive potatoes. This should be served while hot.
March 5
*Scotch Broth
Browned Veal Knuckle
Riced Potatoes Buttered Parsnips
Olive and Lettuce Salad
Cheese Straws
Apricot Parfait
Coffee
*Scotch Broth—2 pounds neck mutton, 1 cup barley, 1 cup peas, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 1 teaspoon sugar, 3 onions or leeks, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 small cabbage, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 16 cups water or stock, salt and pepper to taste.
Prepare vegetables and cut them into small pieces. Put water or stock into large earthenware pan, and when it boils, add meat and barley. Boil up, skimming frequently, add vegetables, and then simmer for 3 hours. Now stir in one extra carrot grated, salt and pepper, sugar and Crisco. Simmer again for 30 minutes. Add parsley and broth is ready to serve.
Vegetarian
March 6
Spinach Soup
*Egg Cutlets, Cream Sauce
Potatoes Brussels Sprouts
Tomatoes, French Dressing
Cheese Fingers
Sultana Pudding Coffee
*Egg Cutlets—Put 2 tablespoons Crisco into a pan, when melted, add 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk gradually, boil for 3 minutes, stirring all the time, then add 2 raw yolks of eggs, remove from the fire, add 2 tablespoons cooked chopped peppers, 6 chopped mushrooms, red pepper, white pepper, salt and nutmeg to taste and four chopped hard-cooked eggs. Turn on plate to cool. Shape into cutlets. Brush over with beaten egg, roll in fine breadcrumbs and fry in hot Crisco. Serve very hot with cream sauce.
March 7
*Tapioca Puree
Brazillian Stew
Beans Mashed Potatoes
White Grape Salad
Wafers Cheese
Ginger Ice Cream Coffee
*Tapioca Puree—1 quart white stock, or half stock and half milk, 1/4 pint cream, 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon fine sago or crushed tapioca, salt and pepper to taste.
The stock should be well flavored, otherwise it must be simmered with a little onion, carrot, celery, and herbs, and strained for use. Bring stock to boiling point, sprinkle in sago, or tapioca, and stir and cook until it becomes transparent; then let soup cool slightly. Mix yolks of eggs and the cream together, then the melted Crisco, and add to soup and stir till it thickens; it should have the consistency of single cream. When a thicker soup is desired, mix teaspoon flour or cornstarch with a little milk, and add it to soup at same time as sago or tapioca. Season to taste, and serve.
March 8
Turnip Soup
Beef Stew with Dumplings
Parsnips Mashed Potatoes
Russian Salad
Cheese Crackers
*Bird’s Nest Pudding Coffee
*Bird’s Nest Pudding—3 eggs, 3/4 cup flour, 6 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup blanc-mange, pinch baking powder, pistachio nuts or cocoanut, angelica and apricot jam.
Break eggs into basin, add sugar to them, and beat over saucepan of hot water until mixture is consistency of thick cream. Melt Crisco; sieve flour and baking powder together. Stir Crisco and flour quickly and lightly into egg mixture, turn into well-criscoed mold, and bake in a moderate oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Turn out when done, and let the cake get cold. Rub some apricot jam through a hair sieve, put a thin layer of this over the cake, roll it either in chopped pistachio nuts or desiccated cocoanut. Stand on a dish. Have ready some blanc-mange eggs, fill the center with these, and arrange round the base of the nest some pieces of angelica to represent twigs. It is now ready to serve. The blanc-mange eggs are made by either filling some egg-molds with blanc-mange, or by emptying out some eggs, and using the shells. The eggs must be emptied through as small a hole as possible. When set, the shells are broken away carefully.
March 9
*Veal and Ham Pie
Baked Sweet Potatoes Fried Parsnips
Salad of Canned Asparagus Tips
Cheese Fritters
Caramel Pudding with Meringue
Coffee
*Veal and Ham Pie—1-1/2 pounds veal, 2 hard-cooked eggs, few grains red pepper, dust of powdered mace, 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind, 1/2 pound ham, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 6 whole peppers, powdered sweet herbs, and pastry.
Cut veal and ham into very thin pieces; mix on a plate, flour, salt, pepper, sweet herbs, lemon rind, red pepper, and mace, roll in this seasoning each piece of veal, and lay in a pie dish, alternately, layers of veal, ham, and egg, cut in slices; pile this in center of dish, add 1/2 cup water; line edge of dish, cover and decorate with Crisco Flake Pastry; when baked add a little very good seasoned stock, which should become a jelly when the pie is cold, or a little gelatine may be added; garnish with parsley if served cold.
March 10
Cream of Cabbage Soup
Celery Olives
*Halibut, a la Poulette, White Sauce
Baked Potatoes
Macaroni, Italian Style
Chicory Salad Cheese Crusts
Plum Pudding Coffee
*Halibut, a la Poulette—Slice of halibut, weighing 2 pounds, 1/4 cup melted Crisco, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, few drops onion juice, pepper and salt to taste.
Clean fish and cut into neat fillets. Add seasonings to melted Crisco, and put dish containing Crisco in saucepan of hot water to keep Crisco melted. Take up each fillet separately with a fork, dip in Crisco, roll and fasten with small wooden skewer. Put in shallow pan, dredge with flour, and bake 12 minutes in hot oven. Remove skewers, arrange on platter for serving, pour around 1-1/2 cups white sauce, and garnish with yolks of 2 hard-cooked eggs rubbed through a strainer, whites of hard-cooked eggs cut in strips, lemon cut fan-shaped, and parsley.
March 11
Asparagus Soup
Baked Salmon, Hollandaise Sauce
Mashed Potatoes *Spinach, a la Creme
Escarole Salad Cheese Straws
Cocoanut Pudding Coffee
*Spinach, a la Creme—2 pounds spinach, pepper, salt, and nutmeg to taste, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup thick cream, and 1 teaspoon sugar.
Wash and pick spinach, throw it into a pan of boiling water containing a little salt and soda; boil until tender, 10 to 15 minutes; pour on to a wire sieve, and squeeze out all the water; rub through the sieve with a wooden spoon; put spinach into a saucepan, with seasoning, butter, and cream. The spinach may be prepared as above and mixed with white sauce instead of cream; garnish with fried croutons.
March 12
Porterhouse Steak, Maitre d’Hotel Butter
French Fried Potatoes
Stewed Tomatoes
Shredded Cabbage, Cream Dressing
*Apple Pie Cheese Coffee
*Apple Pie—Use Crisco Plain Paste. For filling for a medium-sized pie tin, use 3 cups pared and sliced apples, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and grated rind of 1/2 lemon.
March 13
Baked Stuffed Haddock
Julienne Potatoes Creamed Cucumbers
Egg Salad
*Steamed Graham Pudding, Hard Sauce
Coffee
*Steamed Graham Pudding—1/2 cup molasses, 1/2 cup milk, 1 egg, 1/4 cup Crisco, 1-1/2 cups graham flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup stoned and chopped dates.
Melt Crisco, add molasses, milk, egg well beaten, dry ingredients, mixed and sifted, and dates; turn into Criscoed mold, cover, and steam 2-1/2 hours. Serve with hard sauce. Figs cut in small pieces may be used in place of dates.
March 14
*Breaded Chops
Baked Potatoes Celery Hearts
Creamed Carrots and Peas
Lettuce, French Dressing
Apricot Whip, Custard Sauce
Coffee
*Breaded Chops—Wipe and trim mutton chops, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dip in crumbs, egg, then crumbs, and fry in hot Crisco from 5 to 8 minutes, then drain. Do not fry more than 4 chops at a time, and allow the Crisco to reheat between fryings. After testing Crisco for temperature put in the chops, then lower the heat that the surface of the chops may not be burned while the inside is yet under done.
March 15
*Sardine Canapes
Baked Beans
Baked Potatoes
Apple and Celery Salad
Cheese Wafers
Date Cream Pie
Coffee
*Sardine Canapes—Take 6 or 8 sardines, mash up with yolk of a hard-cooked egg, pepper and salt to taste, a little lemon juice and 1 teaspoon melted Crisco. Have some rounds of bread fried a pretty golden brown color in hot Crisco, spread the mixture on the croutes; garnish round the edges with some finely chopped parsley and white of 1 egg rubbed through sieve.
March 16
*Clam Bisque Crackers
Codfish Balls
Escalloped Tomatoes
Cucumber Salad
Bermuda Onions
Custard Pie
Coffee
*Clam Bisque—2 cups clams, 2 tablespoons chopped onions, bit of bay leaf, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 cups chicken stock, 1 teaspoon salt, pepper and red pepper to taste, 1 pint hot cream, and 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce.
Chop clams, and cook in stock 20 minutes. Melt Crisco, add onions, cook 5 minutes; add flour, strained clam liquor, cook 5 minutes; add seasonings, cream, and serve.
St. Patrick’s Day
March 17
Irish Potato Bisque
Olives
Salted Pistachio Nuts
*Boiled Salmon, Parsley Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Brussels Sprouts
Shamrock Salad
St. Patrick’s Pie
Green Frosted Cakes
Green Mints
Coffee
*Boiled Salmon—Put the salmon in enough boiling water to cover, add 1 teaspoon salt to each quart of water; boil 1 minute, then draw on one side, and simmer slowly until cooked, allowing 10 minutes to the pound; drain thoroughly, and serve on folded napkin; decorate with parsley.
Serve with parsley sauce. For sauce. Blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour, add 1 cup milk, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste, stir till boiling, then boil 8 minutes, add 2 tablespoons chopped parsley, mix well and use.
March 18
*Broiled Spanish Mackerel
Grilled Guinea Chicken
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Baked Eggplant
Cold Asparagus, Vinaigrette
Devilled Cheese
Macedoine of Fruits
Coffee
*Broiled Spanish Mackerel—Split a good-sized Spanish mackerel down the back, clean and wipe as dry as possible, leaving the head and tail on or off, as desired. Sprinkle well with salt and pepper. Rub the wire broiler with Crisco and lay on this, flesh side up. Turn when the flesh is tender and broil on the skin side until brown and crisp, and serve with cucumbers dressed with oil and lemon juice.
March 19
*Chickens Stewed with Olives
Chartreuse of Spinach
Baked Squash
Asparagus Salad
Rhubarb Tarts
Coffee
*Chickens Stewed with Olives—Cut 2 young chickens into joints and put to cook in 3 pints of water with pepper, salt and an onion. Cook until the chickens are very tender. Take up, drain and wipe chickens and fry them in Crisco till they brown. Strain water in which chickens were cooked and take a little more than 1/2 a pint of it for sauce. Put this into the frying pan in which chickens were fried, thicken it a little, and into it put 2 dozens olives, chopped, and 1 tablespoon capers. When it is quite hot and smooth pour over chickens and serve.
March 20
*Princess Soup
Veal Chops, Horseradish Sauce
Fried Carrots
Baked Asparagus Tips
Spinach Salad
Peach Mousse
Coffee
*Princess Soup—Chop very fine 1 cup sorrel, and cook in 1 tablespoon Crisco. Add 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon tarragon or white wine vinegar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon flour, and when boiling add 1 pint hot water. Cook for 1/2 hour, then add 1 quart white stock and a grating of nutmeg and dash of red pepper. Bring to a boil, add beaten yolk of 1 egg and 1 cup cream and serve.
March 21
Baked Shad Roe with Bacon
*Broiled Lamb Chops, Mint Jelly Sauce
Cucumbers Baked Asparagus Tips
Shrimp Salad
Rice Souffle
Coffee
*Broiled Lamb Chops—Trim and flatten chops, sprinkle each with sherry wine, rub with salt and white pepper and broil over a clear fire until they are done, according to the tastes of those who are to eat them. Melt together 4 tablespoons Crisco, if there are 8 chops, a small tumbler mint jelly, add to it chopped parsley and a few drops of lemon juice and pour over chops just as they are to be served.
March 22
Czarina Soup
*Guinea Hen, Roasted
Mashed Potatoes Creamed Onions
Dandelion Salad
Frozen Pudding Coffee
*Guinea Hen, Roasted—Truss 2 guinea hens, cover breasts with thin slices of bacon, and put in roaster and bake, basting often until tender. Remove bacon and brown. Melt in roasting pan 2 tablespoons Crisco, stir in 2 tablespoons flour, pour in gradually 2 cups scalded cream, and stir constantly. Strain, season with salt and white pepper, and, if liked, a tiny grain nutmeg, and pour this over guinea hens, or pass separately. Serve with these, potato balls of uniform size, which have been sauted in Crisco and sprinkled with chopped parsley.
March 23
Cream of Cauliflower Soup
Flounder au Gratin
*Mutton Cutlets, a la Soubise
Potatoes Tossed Tomatoes
Combination Salad
Apple Dumplings
Coffee
*Mutton Cutlets, a la Soubise—6 mutton cutlets, 1/2 cup dried beans, brown sauce, 2 onions, 3 tablespoons Crisco, and 1/2 cup white sauce. Trim cutlets, season them with pepper and salt, and fry in hot Crisco.
Soak dried beans in water for several hours, then boil them in a stewpan until tender. Drain, and pass them through a sieve. Melt Crisco in a saucepan, stir in sieved beans, add to them the onions, previously boiled and sieved, season, and stir over fire until hot. Then add white sauce. Dish cutlets in a circle on a hot dish, and put puree of beans and onions in center. Pour some brown sauce round and serve.
March 24
Calf’s Tail Soup
*Braised Fillet of Veal
Braised Belgian Endive Potato Puree
Beet and Cabbage Salad
Banana Trifle
Coffee
*Braised Fillet of Veal—3-1/2 pounds veal, 1/4 pound larding bacon, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 1/2 lemon, forcemeat, stock and a little celery.
Remove bone, fill in cavity with forcemeat. Cut some even strips of bacon 1/4 of an inch thick, and with a larding needle thread neatly on top of meat. Slice vegetables, place them in a pan, set veal on these, sprinkle with a little lemon juice. Cover with Criscoed paper, and add stock to come three-parts up the meat. Cover closely and set pan in oven (in order to get top heat also) or over a gentle fire, and simmer 2-1/2 to 3 hours. Remove veal to a dripping tin with very little stock, and brown in front of fire or in hot oven. Reduce stock in pan, meanwhile, by fast boiling without lid, and strain round meat. Garnish with cut lemon, and, if liked, with curled bacon and forcemeat balls.
The forcemeat is made as follows: Add 1/4 cup Crisco, 4 tablespoons chopped cooked ham, 1 cup breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon mixed herbs, thyme, and marjoram. Add salt and pepper to taste, and mix with 2 well-beaten eggs.
March 25
Scallop Chowder
*Boiled Cod, Oyster Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Stewed Corn
Watercress, French Dressing
Cheese Biscuits Ginger Pudding
Coffee
*Boiled Cod—Wash the fish (about 2 to 3 pounds cod), and put into a fish-kettle, containing enough boiling water to cover it. Add some salt, bring quickly to boil; then draw pan to side of fire, and let it stay in hot water until cooked. Do not let water boil or simmer again. Cod cooked in this way has a much finer flavor than if it is allowed to simmer or boil. Take up fish on drainer, slide it on to a hot dish on a folded napkin, and serve garnished with sprigs of crisp parsley. Send to table with oyster sauce, which is made as follows: 4 tablespoons Crisco, 6 tablespoons flour, 1 small onion, 1/2 carrot, 12 whole peppers, 1/2 bay leaf, 1 clove, 1 bouquet garni, small blade mace, salt, and ten oysters. Peel the onion, scrape carrot; put them into saucepan with bay leaf, whole pepper, bouquet garni, and clove; add milk, and bring to boil. When milk boils take out mace and bay leaf. Melt Crisco in small saucepan; mix in flour smoothly; whisk into this hot milk. Stir until it boils, then let it simmer from 10 to 15 minutes. Take out bouquet; rub sauce through a sieve. Take 10 oysters and their liquor and put into a saucepan and bring to boiling point. Then take the oysters and cut each in quarters. Heat the sauce and add the oyster liquor, reduce well, strain and return to saucepan; stir in 1 yolk of egg, bind, and then add oysters and lemon juice. Stir till hot, but it must not boil. Season to taste and serve.
March 26
Pepper Cocktail
*Fried Pigeons
Baked Onions Mashed Potatoes
Celery and Nut Salad
Cheese Custards
Orange Ice Cream
Coffee
*Fried Pigeons—4 pigeons, 1/2 pound sausage meat, 1 egg, carrot, turnip, onion, celery, mace, and cloves. Empty and split pigeons in halves, lengthways; remove 1 joint of wing and of leg, and truss neatly; wash thoroughly.
Put into a stewpan, a small bit turnip and carrot, small onion, bit of celery, blade of mace, few cloves and whole peppers; place pigeons on top; add 2 cups water, and all giblets of pigeons nicely cleaned and prepared; cover all with Criscoed paper and cover them with lid, and cook gently 1 hour. Remove pigeons from pan, and dry each thoroughly. Divide sausage into 4 portions; fill hollow of pigeons with these, and with floured hands pat it quite smooth, using flour all over pigeons. Have an egg well beaten; cover carefully with it, and roll in fine breadcrumbs. Put into hot Crisco, and fry a golden brown. Have the following sauce in dish, and place the pigeons neatly in center: Strain liquor pigeons were stewed in, and into pan put 1 tablespoon flour and 1 tablespoon Crisco, moisten it with a little cold water; then add to it the liquor, a 1/4 teaspoon meat extract, 1 small tomato chopped up, and salt to taste; let all boil for 10 minutes; then strain. It may require more stock or water to be added to make sauce a good consistency.
March 27
Grape Fruit Cocktail
Roast Duck, Currant Jelly
*Creamed Turnips
Sweet Potato Croquettes
Apple Salad
Cheese Straws
Marmalade Ice Cream
Coffee
*Creamed Turnips—Wash turnips, and cut in 1/2 inch cubes. Cook 3 cups in boiling salted water 20 minutes, or until soft. Drain, and serve with the following sauce: 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and pepper to taste. Put Crisco in saucepan, stir until melted and bubbling; add flour mixed with seasonings, and stir until thoroughly blended. Pour on gradually the milk, adding about 1/3 at a time, stirring until well mixed, then beating until smooth and glossy.
March 28
Anchovy Eclairs
*Planked Shad, Butter Sauce
Cucumbers Potato Puff
Asparagus Salad
Cheese Sandwiches
Cafe Parfait
Coffee
*Planked Shad—Clean and split down the back a good 3-pound shad. Heat plank very hot, lay fish upon it, skin side down, or that portion will be raw. The hot plank cooks it. Brush flesh carefully over with olive oil, then sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven. Baste frequently with melted Crisco. It may be cooked in a gas range having the flame over the fish. When cooked pour over the fish 2 tablespoons melted Crisco and juice of 1 lemon. Garnish with parsley and quarters of lemon. Set the plank on a serving dish and serve with butter sauce.
March 29
Printanier Soup
Broiled Chicken, Oyster Sauce
*Duchesse Potatoes
String Beans
Watercress, French Dressing
Cheese Biscuits
Lemon Meringue Pie
Coffee
*Duchesse Potatoes—Wash, peel and boil two pounds potatoes, drain off water and dry in oven, then rub through sieve, add 3 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon cream, seasoning salt, pepper and grated nutmeg. When well mixed lay on floured board and divide into 12 pieces, shape each piece into a square, put them on a buttered tin, brush over with beaten egg and bake in hot oven till well browned.
March 30
Cream of Barley Soup
*English Chicken Pie
Broiled Tomatoes
Cucumber Salad with Red Peppers
Biscuits Cheese
Coffee
*English Chicken Pie—1 chicken, 1/2 pound veal fillet, 4 ounces bacon, 3 hard-cooked eggs, 1/4 pound mushrooms, 2 tablespoons Crisco, pepper and salt to taste, chopped parsley, puff-pastry, stock, and 1 egg.
Cut fowl into small joints, season these with salt and pepper. Slice veal thinly, line bottom of fireproof dish with this, place on top a layer of chicken. Chop mushrooms finely, saute them in Crisco in small stewpan; sprinkle half of this over pieces of chicken, then layer of hard-cooked eggs, over that thin slices bacon and chopped parsley. Continue in this way until all ingredients are used up and the fireproof dish is full; fill dish three parts full with stock. Put a strip of pastry round the edge of dish, wet this lightly with water, cover the pie with puff-pastry rolled out to the proper size and thickness; press down the paste on to the wet edge of paste, trim round. Decorate the paste at the edge according to taste; brush over pie with beaten egg, make a slit in the center of the lid, and place a circle of pastry leaves round it. Put pie in moderate oven, and bake about 1-1/2 hours. Pour in a little stock before serving.
March 31
Deviled Clams
*Broiled Lobsters, Melted Butter
Potatoes au Natural Baked Macaroni
Romaine Salad, French Dressing
Snow Pudding, Chocolate Sauce
Coffee
*Broiled Lobsters—Kill lobsters by cutting tails off with one stroke of the knife, just where they join the body. With another clean cut divide each lengthwise into 2 equal parts, shell and all. Take out coral, the one long intestine and stomach. Crack claws with a hammer. Put within a Criscoed broiler, split side downward, and broil over fire. As soon as juice begins to run freely withdraw long enough to baste liberally with melted Crisco, and return to fire, turning often to keep in juices. Cook about 10 minutes on split or flesh side, and 8 upon other. Have ready sauce made by rubbing 2 tablespoons Crisco to cream with lemon juice and finely-minced parsley, adding little red pepper, and baste lobsters with this while hissing hot. Serve half lobster to each guest.
April 1
*Fried Oysters, Tartare Sauce
Roast Guinea Hens
Rice Croquettes en Surprise
Lettuce, Asparagus and Red Pepper
Salad
Cheese Wafers
Pineapple Mousse
Coffee
*Fried Oysters—Wash, drain, and dry oysters between 2 towels; let stand in a marinade 10 or more minutes, then drain again. Roll in crackercrumbs, seasoned with salt, pepper, and paprika. For 2 cups oysters, beat 2 eggs with 2 tablespoons cold water until well mixed; dip oysters, crumbed, into egg, and roll again in crumbs.
Fry 1 minute in hot Crisco. Use frying-basket and cook 6 oysters at a time. Drain and serve at once with tartare sauce.
The marinade is made as follows: Take 1 part melted Crisco and 3 of vinegar, with salt and pepper to taste. Stir oysters into this and let stand 10 minutes, then drain off any of the marinade that has not been absorbed.
April 2
Emergency Soup
*Veal Pot Pie Baked Dumplings
Cabbage Salad
Cheese Crackers
Fruit Jelly, Whipped Cream
Coffee
*Veal Pot Pie—Wipe piece of veal from shoulder; and cut into pieces for serving; add 1/2 inch strip salt pork or bacon for each piece of veal, cover with cold water, put over fire and bring quickly to boiling point, then, after boiling five minutes, skim and let simmer until meat is tender. When nearly tender, add salt and pepper to taste, and biscuit mixture cut into rounds. Cook ten minutes without lifting cover. Serve meat in center of platter, dumplings at ends and sauce, thickened, if needed, with flour and water, over whole. Dumplings may be steamed 15 minutes over saucepan boiling water. This is usually preferable, to avoid removing them from fire until instant of serving. Beaten yolks of 2 eggs, diluted with 1/2 cup cream and added to sauce, gives a richer dish.
Biscuit mixture is made as follows: Sift 1 quart good flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt, putting it through sifter 2 or 3 times. Rub into flour 1 large tablespoon Crisco and add sufficient sweet milk to make dough as soft as can be rolled and cut. Roll about 3/4 inch thick, cut with round biscuit cutter.
April 3
Crecy Soup
Mutton Cutlets Savory Lentils
Roast Pigeons Chipped Potatoes
Egg and Lettuce Mayonnaise
*Apricot Fritters, Vanilla Sauce
Coffee
*Apricot Fritters—6 apricots, 1/2 pint syrup, half lemon, frying-batter, Crisco and vanilla sauce.
Select firm, ripe apricots, or preserved ones can be used, cut them in halves, and take out stones. Stew them gently in syrup with grated rind of 1/2 lemon. When they are tender, drain well, and let them cool. Have ready some frying-batter, dip apricots into it, then fry in plenty of hot Crisco. When a nice golden color, take them up, drain on paper, dish up on a napkin and serve with vanilla sauce.
April 4
Brown Soup
Mousse of Ham
Veal Olives
Mashed Potatoes Spinach
Pear Salad
Cheese Ramekins
*Rice Souffle Fruit Custards
Coffee
*Rice Souffle—4 tablespoons ground rice stirred to smooth paste with 1/2 tablespoon Crisco and 6 tablespoons milk. Add remainder of a pint of milk, and put all into a saucepan, and stir till it thickens. Add beaten yolks 4 eggs and 2 tablespoons sugar well stirred, also add the well whisked whites of 4 eggs. Mix all thoroughly, place in a Criscoed souffle dish, and bake for 1/2 hour. Serve instantly.
April 5
*White Soup
Fried Fillets of Haddock
Roast Chicken, Bread Sauce
Potato Chips Brussels Sprouts
Cress and Orange Salad
Iced Castle Puddings
Coffee
*White Soup—2 small onions, 1 turnip, 1 pound potatoes, 1 stalk celery, 2 small parsnips or artichokes, 3 pints water, 1/2 pint milk, 1 tablespoon flour or cornstarch, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and salt to taste.
Cut about 2 pounds of any white vegetables, previously washed and peeled, into pieces, or preferably several kinds mixed, and boil them until soft in the water with salt and Crisco. Rub them through sieve or colander, put them back in the stew pan with milk, and let boil. Put in flour, mixed smoothly with little cold water or milk; let soup boil for 10 minutes, and then serve.
April 6
Broiled Soft Shell Crabs
*Sweetbreads with Mushroom Puree
Boiled Bermuda Onions
New Green Peas
Lettuce and Radish Salad
Fried Cornstarch Pudding
Coffee
*Sweetbreads with Mushroom Puree—Blanch and prepare sweetbreads, by cutting away all the windpipes and fibrous nerves. When they are quite cool, put under a weight to flatten well. Dip them in melted Crisco and broil, without browning too much, over a clear fire.
Put sweetbreads on very thin slices of round toast and serve with this puree poured over all: Chop 1 dozen fresh mushrooms and put them to cook with 1/2 pint of cream and 1/2 cup fine breadcrumbs. Cook them in double boiler till mushrooms can be pressed through rather fine sieve. Return this puree to fire, season with salt and white pepper, and let get as hot as possible before using it for sweetbreads.
April 7
Grilled Brook Trout
*Spring Lamb Steak, a la Minute
Lentil Croquettes
Potato Rissoles
Grapefruit Salad
Cheese
Crackers
Golden Parfait
Coffee
*Spring Lamb Steak, a la Minute—Rub some fillets of spring lamb steak with salt and pepper, and fry them gently in 3 tablespoons Crisco which has been melted in an iron frying pan, until thoroughly cooked. Remove from frying pan and keep hot. Put 12 large fresh mushroom caps in pan and cook until tender, adding 1/4 cup cream and salt and pepper to taste. Put lamb steak on hot platter, garnish with mushroom caps, and pour sauce around.
April 8
*Red Pottage
Boudins of Ham with Peas
Roast Ribs of Beef Yorkshire Pudding
Potatoes
Cauliflower
Chiffonade Salad
Rhubarb Tart and Custard
Coffee
*Red Pottage—1/2 a pound dried beans, 1 teacup tomato puree, 1 beet, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 onions, piece of celery, 1 small piece of parsnip, 2 quarts good stock. Put Crisco in saucepan then add onions, celery and parsnip; cook a little, do not let it get very brown, then add dried beans, tomato puree; sliced beet and add pepper and salt to taste and then stock, and boil till all is tender. Rub through a fine sieve, reheat and serve.
April 9
*Corn Chowder
Broiled Steak
Baked Potatoes
Horseradish, Cream Dressing
Scalloped Tomatoes
Celery Salad
Cherry Sponge
Coffee
*Corn Chowder—1 can corn, 1 cup salt pork cut in cubes, 1 cup potatoes, 1/2 cup chopped onions, salt and red pepper to taste, 3 cups water, 2 cups milk, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour, and 1/2 cup crackercrumbs. Cook salt pork in frying pan for 5 minutes; add onion and cook until a yellow color. Parboil potatoes 5 minutes; add to onion with corn and water; cook 20 minutes. Thicken milk with Crisco and flour cooked together. Combine mixtures; add crackercrumbs and salt and pepper to taste, then serve.
April 10
Puree of Black Beans
Baked Macaroni *Potato Puff
Cabbage Salad
Cheese Puffs
Spice Jelly, Whipped Cream
Coffee
*Potato Puff—Prepare 2-1/2 cups hot mashed potato. Add 3/4 cup milk, 2 well-beaten yolks of eggs, 3 tablespoons Crisco, and salt and pepper to taste. Beat this well, then add beaten whites of 2 eggs. Pile lightly in Criscoed baking dish and bake until puffed and brown.
April 11
Bean Soup
Globe Artichoke with Sauce Hollandaise
Stuffed Peppers Potato Straws
*Grilled Tomatoes
Pimiento Salad
Fruit Assorted Cakes
Coffee
*Grilled Tomatoes—Wipe tomatoes, spread little Crisco on each with a knife, and set on grill pan near to clear fire. Turn often, basting or keeping moist with Crisco. Whole tomatoes cook in 7 to 10 minutes, according to size. Sliced ones in about 5 minutes. When meat or ham is being grilled tomatoes will cook in pan underneath the grid on which meat rests.
April 12
*Hollandaise Soup
Escalloped Potatoes Vegetable Pie
Celery Patties
Romaine Salad
Chocolate Tapioca
Coffee
*Hollandaise Soup—1 quart vegetable stock, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 4 yolks eggs, 1/2 pint cream, 1/2 cup green peas, cooked, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup carrot, cut in small pieces, cooked, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 cup cut cucumber, cooked, and 1 teaspoon chopped tarragon.
Trim peas, carrots and cucumbers with round cutter, size and shape of peas. Cook them in boiling water, being careful not to cook them too much. Melt Crisco and flour in stewpan; add stock and let boil well. Break yolks of eggs into a basin and add cream, then add the liaison of eggs and cream to stock; let it just come to boil, being careful it does not curdle. Strain into a clean stewpan, add vegetables which have been previously cooked, and tarragon and serve.
April 13
Indian Soup Rice
*Mock Goose, Apple Sauce
Stewed Celery
Pineapple Salad
Rhubarb Pie
Coffee
*Mock Goose—2 cups breadcrumbs, 2 cups dropped black walnuts, 2 cups boiled rice, 6 hard-cooked eggs, 3 raw eggs, 1 tablespoon grated onion, salt, pepper and grated nutmeg to taste.
Put breadcrumbs in saucepan with 2 cups water; cook for a few minutes; add hard-cooked eggs, chopped; take saucepan from fire and add black walnut meats and the rice. When this is well mixed, add raw eggs, slightly beaten, and seasonings. Form this into shape of a goose, reserving portions for legs and wings. Take a tablespoon of mixture in your hand and press it into shape of a leg; put piece of dry macaroni into it for bone and fasten it to goose. Do other side same way. Form remaining portions into small pieces looking like wings tucked under; press them to side of goose. Brush goose over with melted Crisco and bake for 1 hour. Serve with apple sauce.
April 14
*Lobster Newburgh
Glazed Sweetbreads
Loin of Lamb, Roasted, Mint Sauce
Asparagus Potato Croquettes
Pineapple Sherbet Coffee
*Lobster Newburgh—2 pounds lobster, 1/4 cup Crisco, salt, red pepper, and grated nutmeg to taste, 1 tablespoon sherry, 1 tablespoon brandy, 1/3 cup cream, and 2 egg yolks. Remove cooked lobster meat from shell and cut in slices. Melt Crisco, add lobster and cook 3 minutes. Add salt, red pepper, grated nutmeg, sherry and brandy; cook 1 minute, then add cream and yolks of eggs slightly beaten, and stir until thickened. Serve with toast.
April 15
*Stewed Chicken
Baking Powder Biscuit
Spinach Buttered Parsnips
Celery and Orange Salad
Cheese Relish Ribbon Jelly
Coffee
*Stewed Chicken—Draw, singe, and joint a stewing chicken. Season pieces with pepper and salt and cover with boiling water. Cover and stew gently until tender.
Remove chicken. Place pieces in a colander on a plate in oven to drain, and thicken gravy by adding 1 tablespoon flour rubbed with 1 tablespoon Crisco. Add salt and pepper to taste, a little chopped parsley and 1 cup milk. Beat an egg until light; pour on it part of gravy, beating carefully to prevent lumps; return to remainder of gravy; bring to boil and pour over chicken.
April 16
Oyster Bisque
*Mackerel, a la Claudine Radishes
Corn Peas Potatoes
Lettuce and Pepper Grass Salad
Cheese Balls Princess Pudding
Coffee
*Mackerel, a la Claudine—Take a nice large fresh mackerel, split it down back and remove bone, season fish with melted Crisco, chopped fresh mushrooms, salt, pepper, and finely chopped shallot; put on to a grill iron and cook in front or over brisk fire for about 15 minutes, then take up and serve on hot dish with the following sauce: Take 1 cup brown sauce, 2 tablespoons capers, pinch chopped parsley, four anchovies rubbed through sieve, 1 teaspoon glaze, and 1 chopped shallot, 3 or 4 shredded button mushrooms; boil up and simmer for 10 minutes, rub through sieve, then add juice of 1 lemon and 4 chopped olives, reboil and serve.
April 17
*Potato Soup
Breaded Lamb Chops, Tomato Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Creamed Turnips Cheese Salad
Canary Pudding Coffee
*Potato Soup—1 quart white second stock or water, 1/2 pint milk, 1 pound potatoes, 1 onion, 1 stalk celery, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon fine sago or crushed tapioca, salt and pepper to taste.
Slice potatoes, onion, and celery. Make Crisco hot in stewpan, add vegetables, fry and cook until Crisco is absorbed, stirring frequently to prevent them browning. Add stock, and simmer until vegetables are tender (about 1 hour). Rub through fine sieve; return to saucepan, add milk, and bring to boil. Sprinkle in sago, cook until transparent, add seasoning to taste, and serve.
April 18
Orange Cocktail
Boiled Capon, Caper Sauce
Buttered Beans *Carrot Fritters
Olive Salad Baked Chocolate Custard
Coffee
*Carrot Fritters—Have nice, young, tender carrots, clean and scrape them carefully, and cut each one in two lengthwise. Put to boil in salted water. Take up, drain and cool, and make a frying batter as follows: Beat up 1 egg, sift in 1 cup flour, 3/4 cup milk, pinch of salt, and 1 tablespoon melted Crisco. Mix till smooth and glossy. Allow to stand in cool place for 1 hour, then add 1 teaspoon baking powder. Put in few pieces of carrot at a time. Drop into hot Crisco and fry for few minutes. Serve hot.
April 19
*Kidney Soup
Flounder, White Sauce
Roast Shoulder of Mutton
Potatoes Spinach au Jus
Cauliflower and Red Pepper Salad
Moulded Pears, Whipped Cream
Coffee
*Kidney Soup—1/2 pound ox kidney, 1/2 pound lean beef, 3 pints brown stock, 3 tablespoons coarsely chopped fat bacon, 1 tablespoon chopped onion, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, salt and pepper to taste.
Wash kidney and beef quickly, dry them, and cut them up quite small. Melt Crisco in saucepan, add bacon, onion, and kidney, and fry them until brown. Add stock and salt to taste, and simmer soup for about 2-1/2 hours. Strain out solid parts, pound them to a paste, and rub this through fine wire or hair sieve. Rinse out pan, mix flour smoothly and thinly with little of strained soup. Reboil rest of liquid, pour in flour, and stir it till it boils. Cook for ten minutes and carefully skim it. Then mix in smoothly sieved meat, add seasoning, reheat soup without boiling it after adding meat, and it is ready to serve. Water can replace stock; if so, add piece of carrot and turnip and bunch herbs to soup, but do not pound or sieve these. A more delicate soup is made with four or five sheep’s kidneys instead of ox kidney. Add little caramel coloring if needed.
April 20
Celery Soup
*Braised Ox-Tongue
Baked Potatoes Mashed Turnips
Cold Slaw Cheese Wafers
Rice Mousse Coffee
*Braised Ox-Tongue—1 ox-tongue, 1 pint stock, 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 bouquet garni, 1 clove, 1/2 pint piquante sauce, and 6 thin slices bacon. Trim ox-tongue, which should be obtained salted or pickled ready for use. Blanch, and let it cool. Put into fish-kettle or stewpan, large enough to hold tongue, slices bacon, onion peeled and sliced, carrot scraped and cut in pieces, bouquet garni and clove; add stock, put in tongue, and cook until three parts done, then take it up, and skin while hot. Strain liquor it was cooked in, take off fat, add piquante sauce, put tongue into this, and finish cooking. When tender, cut in slices, dish, and pour sauce over, and serve. Mashed potatoes, spinach, or peas served with tongue is a great improvement.
The piquante sauce is made as follows: 4 shallots, 3 mushrooms, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 carrot, sprig thyme, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons vinegar, half pint brown stock, 1/2 teaspoon anchovy extract, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, 3 tablespoons flour, salt and red pepper to taste.
Peel and chop shallots, carrot, and mushrooms; melt Crisco in a saucepan; fry vegetables a nice brown; then add vinegar, bay leaf, and thyme. Reduce vinegar to half the quantity; stir in flour, dilute with stock, bring to boil; then add anchovy extract, Worcestershire sauce, salt and red pepper to taste. Take out thyme and bay leaf. Simmer for 10 minutes. Skim, and use as required.
April 21
*Mock Turtle Soup
Beef, a la Mode Potatoes
Cauliflower Beet Salad
Cheese Wafers Rhubarb Shortcake
Coffee
*Mock Turtle Soup—1/2 calf’s head, 2 pounds shin beef, small knuckle veal, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup flour, 1 ounce ham, large bunch herbs, 12 whole peppers, 6 cloves, blade mace, 3 onions, 1 carrot, 1/2 head celery, 1 leek, glass sherry or some lemon juice, salt and red pepper to taste, and quenelles. Leave head in water to soak for 5 or 6 hours; then wash well and take out brains. Bone head. Cut 6 ounces lean part of veal and reserve to make quenelles. Then chop bones taken from head, the veal, and beef. Put them into stockpot, and place flesh from head on top; then well cover with water, add little salt and let slowly come to boil. Skim well; add vegetables, cleaned but not cut up, and spices. Let all simmer very slowly for 8 or 9 hours. When head is quite tender (it will take about four hours), lift it out carefully and place between 2 dishes to press until quite cold. Strain stock. Melt Crisco in pan, add ham cut into small pieces, and fry slowly for five minutes, then add flour and stir until it is of dark brown color. Take off stove and add stock by degrees; stir over fire until it boils; put it at corner of stove to simmer for 20 minutes; skim and strain it. Cut head into small square pieces and warm up in soup; add sherry, red pepper, and salt to taste. Turn it out into tureen, then put in some very small quenelles, made with teaspoons, and poached for 10 minutes in water.
Vegetarian
April 22
Calcutta Bisque
Tomatoes Casino
*Asparagus Loaf, Bechamel Sauce
Leeks in Butter Roast Potatoes
Cherry Salad
Cheese Crackers Coffee
*Asparagus Loaf—Crisco thoroughly a charlotte russe mold, 1/4 size, and line it with cooked tips of asparagus well drained. Cook together 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 teaspoon salt, dash of pepper, add gradually 1 cup of cream and boil 5 minutes. Remove from fire, add 1 cup cooked asparagus tips and 4 eggs thoroughly beaten. Turn mixture into mold, set in pan of hot water and cook in a moderate oven about 30 minutes or until center is firm. Turn loaf on hot dish, arrange about it, little oblong pieces of bread that have been dipped in beaten eggs and milk and browned. Pour sauce around it and serve at once.
Vegetarian
April 23
Julienne Soup
Creamed Salsify Patties
Mushrooms in Casserole
Mashed Potatoes Green String Beans
Orange Fritters *Swiss Pudding
Coffee
*Swiss Pudding—1-1/2 cups breadcrumbs, 1 pound apples, 4 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and grated lemon rind. Choose good cooking apples, peel, core, and thinly slice them. Well Crisco a pint pudding-dish, place some crumbs on bottom, and press some against the sides of dish, put in layer of apples, some sugar, a little lemon peel or any other flavoring preferred, then a few more crumbs, and repeat this until all are used; leaving crumbs for top layer.
Pile mixture up little as it shrinks while cooking. Place Crisco in small pieces on top. Bake in moderately hot oven until apples are quite cooked and pudding is browned top and bottom. Turn pudding out on to flat dish, sprinkle sugar over top. Serve with boiled custard or cream. This pudding may be served hot or cold.
Vegetarian
April 24
Cream of Pea Soup
Ladies’ Cabbage in Ramekins
Chestnut Puree
Mock New Potatoes *Creamed Beets
Banana Salad
Marshmallow Pudding
Coffee
*Creamed Beets—Boil 8 medium-sized beets until tender, then remove from saucepan and place them in cold water, rub skins off carefully with hands, cut in 1/2 inch cubes. Make a sauce of 2 tablespoons Crisco creamed with 2 tablespoons flour and 1/2 cup water in which beets were boiled 2 tablespoons cream, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 teaspoons sugar, salt and pepper to taste. Pour sauce over hot beets and serve in hot dish.
Vegetarian
April 25
Cream of Turnip Soup
*Bean Croquettes, Tomato Sauce
Savory Rice
Lettuce Salad, French Dressing
Stewed Prunes Coffee
*Bean Croquettes—1 pint white beans, 1/2 cup cream, yolk 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon onion juice, 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper to taste. Soak beans over night, drain, cover them with fresh water, boil an hour, drain, throw away water, cover with fresh water and boil until tender; drain and press beans through colander. Rub Crisco and flour together, add cream, stir until almost boiling, then add yolks of eggs. Stir again for a minute over fire, add bean pulp and all seasonings; mix and turn out to cool. When cool, form into cylinders, dip in egg, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in hot Crisco. Serve with tomato sauce.
April 26
Mushroom Canapes
*Chicken, a la King
Potato Croquettes
Tomato Mayonnaise
Cheese-Drops Washington Pie
Coffee
*Chicken, a la King—1/2 boiled chicken (one pint in thick pieces), 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 fresh mushrooms, 1 cup cream, 1/2 cup sherry wine, yolks 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 green pepper and 1 red pepper, cut in long thin strips. Melt Crisco, add mushrooms, cook 5 minutes. Add chicken, heat through, add salt, wine and the strips of peppers. (The chicken should be removed from bone in long thick pieces.) Beat yolks until light, add cream, cook over boiling water or in chafing dish, stirring constantly until thickened, about 1-1/2 minutes; then pour over hot chicken mixture and serve at once on toast.
April 27
Fried Trout Radishes
*Grilled Chickens
Glazed New Potatoes Broiled Tomatoes
Stuffed Cucumber Salad
Cheese Sticks
Roman Cream
Coffee
*Grilled Chickens—Have small spring chickens, clean and wipe well, and split down back. Soak them for an hour in olive oil that is seasoned with an onion, sliced, some salt, pepper, parsley and lemon juice. Lift them from this dressing, and without wiping at all, but sprinkling over them a little flour, set to broil over a clear fire. Melt 4 tablespoons Crisco, add to it juice of 1 lemon, glass of Madeira and tablespoon cooked ham chopped as finely as it is possible to get it. Have this sauce hot, and put over chickens when taking them up.
April 28
Clam Cocktail
Shad, Stuffed and Baked,
Brown Butter Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Beets Stuffed with Peppers
*Caramel Custard
Coffee
*Caramel Custard—1 eggs and 1 yolk, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 pint milk, and 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Have plain tin pudding mold, put 3 tablespoons sugar into small saucepan and stir till it becomes quite brown like coffee. Pour this into mold and run it all over bottom of it. Crisco then sides of mold, beat eggs and sugar together till mixed well, then add milk and flavoring. Pour all into prepared mold, cover with piece of Criscoed paper; have stewpan with an inch of boiling water in it; put saucer or something flat in bottom of it, set pudding tin on this, and cover pan with lid. Let steam slowly for at least 1 hour. It must not boil, but be set on part of stove where it will keep hot without boiling. Turn out and serve hot or cold.
Vegetarian
April 29
Cream of Salsify Soup
Nut Sausage, Brown Sauce
Grilled Sweet Potatoes
*Sour German Cabbage
Apple and Prune Tart
Coffee
*Sour German Cabbage—2 quarts chopped cabbage, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup vinegar, salt and pepper to taste.
Soak cabbage in cold water for 1 hour; drain; place it in an uncovered kettle of boiling salted water, cook 20 minutes; drain and return to kettle. Add vinegar, bring cabbage to boiling-point and cook 5 minutes. Add Crisco, salt and pepper to taste.
April 30
*Pepper Pot
Mutton Cutlets, Tomato Sauce
New Potatoes Lima Beans
Sliced Tomato Salad
Cheese Fingers Violet Mousse
Coffee
*Pepper Pot—A small knuckle of veal, 1 pound cooked tripe, 1 onion, 2 medium-sized potatoes, 1 bunch pot herbs, 1 cup Crisco, 3 quarts cold water.
Wash veal and pot herbs and slice onion, put them with water, in soup kettle, on back of stove, where they will come gradually to boiling point. Allow to simmer 4 hours or more. Strain and set away to cool. This must be done day before it is wanted. When cold, skim off every particle of fat, add to it potatoes, cut in small cubes, tripe, cut in 1/2 inch squares, bay leaf, few sprigs parsley chopped fine, and meat cut from knuckle, rejecting every bit of fat and gristle. Put them on to boil just long enough before dinner to cook potatoes; when boiling season to taste with salt and red pepper. Thicken soup with one teaspoon each flour and cornstarch mixed smooth with little water. Mix Crisco with 1 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and little pepper, and enough cold water to make dough stiff enough to roll out, cut in small squares and boil in soup 1/2 hour.
May 1
Beef Soup Noodles
Roast Beef Yorkshire Pudding
Browned Potatoes
*Canned Corn Pudding
Spinach and Egg Salad
Strawberry Sherbet Coffee
*Canned Corn Pudding—1 can corn, 1 cup hot milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour, and 1 egg.
Melt Crisco; mix well with flour; add the milk gradually, then the seasoning and corn, and last of all beaten egg. Pour into Criscoed baking dish and bake in moderate oven for 1/2 hour.
May 2
Porterhouse Steak
Scalloped Potatoes with Onion
Artichokes, Hollandaise Sauce
*Daisy Salad
Roquefort Cheese
Lemon Ice Cream with Grated Pineapple
Coffee
*Daisy Salad—Arrange around border of salad plates a row of crispy lettuce leaves, and in the center put a tablespoon of dressing. This makes center of daisy. Around this put petals made by cutting into narrow strips whites of hard-cooked eggs. Take yolks of these eggs and put through strainer, scattering over dressing in center to give a rough appearance. This will require about five hard-cooked eggs.
The dressing for the center is made as follows: Beat together 3 eggs, add to them 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 teaspoons mustard mixed to paste with 2 teaspoons water, and pepper to taste. Bring to boiling point.
May 3
Normandy Soup
*Veal Loaf, Brown Sauce
String Beans
Baked Tomatoes
Mexican Salad
Cheese Fingers
Vanilla Ice Cream Strawberry Tarts
Coffee
*Veal Loaf—1 pound cold roast veal finely chopped, 1/2 pound sausage meat, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs, 1/2 cup stock or gravy, 1 egg, salt and pepper to taste.
Mix veal, sausage meat, Crisco, and breadcrumbs together, season liberally with salt and pepper, and add egg. Mix thoroughly and add gravy or stock gradually until it is thoroughly moistened. Form into a short thick roll, cover lightly with flour, or, when economy is not an object, coat with egg and breadcrumbs. Bake in moderate oven for 1 hour, basting occasionally with hot Crisco, and serve hot with brown sauce.
May 4
Clear Gravy Soup
*Crown of Lamb with Peas
Potato Croquettes Cauliflower
Bird’s Nest Salad
Cheese Custard
Sultana Roll, Strawberry Sauce
Coffee
*Crown of Lamb with Peas—Select parts from 2 loins containing ribs, scrape flesh from bone between ribs, as far as lean meat and trim off backbone. Shape each piece in semi-circle, having ribs outside and sew pieces together to form a crown. Trim ends of bones evenly and rather short and wrap each bone in thin strip fat scraps to prevent bone from burning. Place on rack in dripping pan with bowl in center of crown to preserve its shape. Dredge with flour, sprinkle with salt and pepper, basting frequently with melted Crisco, and allowing 9 minutes to the pound for roasting. Cover bones with Criscoed paper. Remove paper from bones before serving and fill the center with peas. Place paper frills on chop bones and parsley around base. The center of crown may be filled with potato balls, French fried potatoes, or puree of chestnuts.
May 5
*Hotch Potch
Baked Ham in Pastry
Mashed Turnips Potato Balls
Stuffed Tomato Salad
Caramel Ice Cream Cake
Coffee
*Hotch Potch—1/3 cup pearl barley, 1 small cabbage, 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 2 onions, parsley and herbs, 4 tablespoons Crisco, salt and pepper to taste, and 3 quarts water. Put barley on fire with cold water. Scrape or grate one of carrots, and put it aside in little water. Chop all rest of vegetables very small, and when water boils put them in with Crisco, salt and pepper. There should be enough vegetables to make it rather thick. Boil for 2 hours, then add scraped carrots, and boil for another 1/2 hour. Many other vegetables may be added. Lettuce, green peas, and celery when in season.
May 6
Pear and Ginger Cocktail
Tomato and Vermicelli Soup
Broiled Beefsteak
*French Fried Potatoes
Lettuce Salad
Lemon Pudding, White Sauce
Coffee
*French Fried Potatoes—Wash and pare small potatoes, cut in eighths lengthwise, and soak 1 hour in cold water. Take from water, dry between towels, and fry in deep Crisco. Drain on brown paper and sprinkle with salt. To test Crisco, heat until a crumb of bread becomes a golden brown in 20 seconds.
May 7
*Tomato Pot Roast
Beet Greens Boiled Potatoes
Spring Salad
Rhubarb Tutti Fruitti
Maple Gingerbread
Coffee
*Tomato Pot Roast—Rub over with flour surface of a 4-pound piece of beef cut from lower round, and season it with salt and pepper. Finely chop 2 onions and fry them until brown in 3 tablespoons melted Crisco. Remove onions, put in meat, and cook it until well browned on all sides. Add can of tomatoes and 2 quarts water, cover, and let simmer for about 2 hours, or until meat is tender. Remove meat; thicken and strain liquor. Cut meat in slices and serve in sauce, or use cold for lunch.
May 8
Cream of Beet Soup
Cold Pot Roast Stuffed Potatoes
String Bean Salad Stewed Apricots
*Black Chocolate Cake
Coffee
*Black Chocolate Cake—1-1/4 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1/4 cup Crisco, 4 squares chocolate, 1-1/2 cups flour, measured after sifting, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Cream Crisco and sugar, add well beaten eggs, then chocolate melted, beat thoroughly. Sift salt and baking powder with flour and add alternating with milk to previous mixture. Add flavoring last and beat thoroughly before pouring into a pan well greased with Crisco. Bake in a moderate oven about 40 minutes.
May 9
Broiled Bluefish
*Souffle Potatoes, Austrian Style
Spinach Radish Roses
Coffee Jelly, Whipped Cream
Sponge Cakes Coffee
*Souffle Potatoes, Austrian Style—Select 6 large even-sized potatoes, wash and scrub them, and when dry bake them in hot oven until done. Cut off small portion of skin and remove inside part while hot. Rub this quickly through sieve into a basin, add 1 tablespoon cream, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste, and work in 4 yolks of eggs.
Beat whites of eggs to stiff froth, and stir lightly into mixture. Fill potato shells with this, and bake slowly for about 1/2 hour, or long enough for mixture to rise, and surface of it to brown. If liked, a little grated cheese can be incorporated with mixture and sprinkled over top of potatoes just before baking second time.
May 10
Haricot Soup
Rice Fritters Tomatoes au Gratin
*Baked Bananas
Bread Cheese
Coffee
*Baked Bananas—Remove skins from 7 bananas and cut in halves lengthwise. Put in shallow granite pan or on an old platter. Mix 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, 1/3 cup sugar, and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Baste bananas with 1/2 the mixture. Bake 20 minutes in slow oven, basting during baking with remaining mixture.
May 11
Fish Soup
Salt Cod Fish Balls
Steamed Brown Bread
Dressed Shredded Cabbage
*Cream Pie
Coffee
*Cream Pie—3 eggs, 3 tablespoons sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1-1/2 pints milk, and 1 teaspoon lemon extract.
Mix sugar and flour and then put into a saucepan, then add yolks of eggs, Crisco, milk and flavoring. Stir constantly until it thickens and then divide into 2 baked pie crusts and cover with a meringue made of whites of eggs.
May 12
Fried Fish, Tartare Sauce
Calves’ Tongues Sorrel Puree
French Pigeon Pie
*Macaroni, a l’Italienne
Polish Salad
Apricot Parfait
Coffee
*Macaroni, a l’Italienne—1/4 pound macaroni, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, salt and paprika to taste, 1/2 cup brown stock, 1/2 cup tomato pulp, and 1/2 cup grated cheese. Make sauce of Crisco, flour seasonings, stock, and tomato pulp. Tomato pulp should be quite thick from long cooking. Add macaroni, cooked until tender, in boiling salted water, rinsed and drained. Reheat in double boiler, adding cheese meanwhile. Serve when cheese is melted and whole is very hot.
May 13
Grilled Salmon
Cucumber Potatoes
Galantine of Beef, Aspic Jelly
Vegetable Salad
*Fruit Tart Custard
Coffee
*Fruit Tart—2 pounds fruit, 1 cup sugar, ginger, 2 cups flour, 6 tablespoons Crisco, and baking powder. If tart is to be made of rhubarb, it should be well washed (not skinned) and cut up in inch lengths, packed tightly into dish, sugar sprinkled among it, also 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger. If made of gooseberries, they should be picked clean, washed, and put in dish with little cinnamon. If apples are used, they must be peeled and sliced very thinly, sugar sprinkled among them, and little lemon peel grated, or 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon. In no case put water in. Paste. Put flour in basin with dessertspoon, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 6 tablespoons Crisco, and crumble latter among flour until all lumps have disappeared, then pour in cold water to make stiff paste; turn it out on board and roll it a little larger than size of dish; after wetting it, cut off band of paste to put round edge of dish; wet band again and place remainder paste on. Press it down very lightly, to make edges adhere; pare and notch them neatly according to taste; brush top with cold water, and dust fine sugar over, then put in oven to bake for 1 hour. When fruit tart begins to boil out at side it is usually ready.
May 14
*Spring Soup
Slices of Galantine of Beef
Lettuce and Egg Salad
Cheese Toast
Bananas in Custard
Coffee
*Spring Soup—1 large lettuce, 12 spring onions, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 pint milk, 1 pint stock or water, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, parsley, salt, nutmeg, croutons of bread and sugar.
Wash lettuce and onions, shred lettuce and slice onions thinly. Melt Crisco in saucepan, and fry lettuce and onions for about 5 minutes; add stock and part of milk, and let simmer gently for 10 minutes. Mix cornstarch with remainder of milk, pour into soup and stir until it boils, simmer for another 10 minutes; season to taste with pepper, salt, sugar, and little nutmeg. Cut some crust of bread into thin strips and dry quite crisp in oven; put them into tureen with parsley picked small, and pour soup over. Watercress, endive, or sorrel may be used either along with, or in place of, the lettuce for a change.
May 15
Julienne Soup
*Bobotee
Boiled Potatoes Beans
Cream Cheese and Pimiento Salad
Blanc-mange and Stewed Fruit
Coffee
*Bobotee—1 pound lean beef or mutton, 6 ounces bread, 8 tablespoons Crisco, 4 onions, 4 tablespoons almonds, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tablespoon curry powder, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, and 4 eggs.
Soak bread in milk, then squeeze it, mince meat. Chop onions and fry in hot Crisco, keeping them of a pale color, add bread, curry, sugar, vinegar, and salt, then well mix in meat and eggs beaten. Crisco a pudding dish. Bake from 20 to 30 minutes. Serve in pudding dish garnished with slices of lemon and parsley. Can be eaten either hot or cold.
May 16
*Chipped Beef in Cream
Baked Potatoes
Lettuce and Radish Salad
Cheese Balls
Frozen Macedoine
Coffee
*Chipped Beef in Cream—Make white sauce using 8 tablespoons Crisco, 8 tablespoons flour, 3 cups milk and 1 cup cream. To it add 1/2 pound dried beef broken into small pieces. Cook about 5 minutes and just before serving pour very slowly on to 2 well beaten eggs. Serve at once.
May 17
Fruits
*Spanish Omelet Molded Spinach
New Potatoes
Corn Salad Cheese Sticks
Frozen Souffle
Coffee
*Spanish Omelet—1 green pepper, 1 red pepper, 1 onion, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 6 mushrooms, 6 eggs, 6 tablespoons water, salt and pepper to taste.
Put 1/2 Crisco in saucepan, add onion chopped very fine, mushrooms and red and green pepper; cover, cook slowly for 20 minutes. Make plain omelet from rest of ingredients; turn this out on heated dish, fill ends of dish or platter with Spanish sauce, and send it to table.
This omelet can be made very handsome by saving 1/4 of green and red pepper, cutting it into fancy shapes to use a garnish for top of omelet.
May 18
Strawberries
Lentil Soup, au Maigre
*Scalloped Clams Stewed Tomatoes
Beet and Cabbage Salad
Vanilla Ice Cream
Maple Sauce
Coffee
*Scalloped Clams—Chop 25 clams fine and season with red pepper and salt to taste. Blend together 1 tablespoon each Crisco and flour, and cook with 1 cup liquid, half milk and half clam juice, with a tiny pinch of soda, and stir until smooth and creamy. Add chopped clams with 1 beaten egg. Have ready large clam or scallop shells, Crisco on inside and fill with clam mixture, smoothing over with silver knife blade. Arrange on baking dish and bake about 6 minutes, or until well browned. Garnish with parsley and pass sliced lemons with them.
May 19
Grape Fruit
Cream of Celery Soup
*Sweetbreads
Creamed New Potatoes
Green Peas Carrots
Hot Biscuit
Fruit Salad Orange Ice
Sunshine Cake
Coffee
*Sweetbreads—Clean and soak 2 pairs of sweetbreads in cold water for an hour or more, then put them in pan with enough water to cover them, and cook them for 20 minutes. Take them out and place them in cold water for 2 or 3 minutes to make them firm. Dry thoroughly, rub them with tablespoon of Crisco. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and place in a pan with brown sauce. Cook in hot oven for 20 minutes. Baste often with the sauce.
May 20
Cream of Pea Soup Croutons
Stuffed Eggs, Tartare Sauce
Baked Bananas Potato Fluff
*Onions Stuffed with Nuts
Apple Salad
Coffee
*Onions Stuffed with Nuts—2 large Spanish onions, or 6 good-sized Bermuda onions, 1 cup boiled rice, 1 cup chopped English walnut meats, mixed with 1 teaspoon salt, 1 saltspoon pepper, and 1 raw egg.
Put onions, without peeling into a saucepan of boiling water; add half the salt and boil for 1/2 an hour. Drain and dry. Remove outside skin, and with handle of a teaspoon, take out center, saving it for the sauce. Mix nuts, rice, seasoning and egg; fill this into onions; stand them in baking pan, brush with melted Crisco and bake in moderate oven for 1/2 hour. Chop very fine the portion that you have taken from center, press it through a sieve, add this pulp to a cup of tartare sauce and pour it into a sauceboat. Serve onions on platter; pass the sauce.
May 21
Oloronnaise Potage
Broiled Shad Roe *Anna Potatoes
Duckling Braise with Cherries
Fresh Asparagus, Swiss
Weimar Pudding
Coffee
*Anna Potatoes—Peel, wash and drain 4 good-sized, sound, raw potatoes. Slice them with a Saratoga-chip potato machine. If none is at hand, slice them as fine as possible. Grate 2 ounces of Parmesan or Swiss cheese. Heat 2 tablespoons Crisco in a small frying pan, remove pan from fire and cover bottom with light layer of potatoes. Mix teaspoon salt with 2 saltspoons white pepper, sprinkle a little over potatoes, spread a little cheese over potatoes, and place few bits Crisco over cheese. Arrange another layer of potatoes—and so on till all are employed. Cover pan, place on moderate fire for 5 minutes. Turn them over with cake turner; let them cook again 3 minutes, then place in hot oven for 10 minutes. Turn on hot dish and serve.
May 22
Little Neck Clams
Parmentier Puree
Veal Cutlets
Mashed Potatoes *Spinach, Martha
Chicory Salad
Biscuit Tortoni
Coffee
*Spinach, Martha—Trim off stalks of 3 quarts fresh spinach, discarding stale leaves if any. Thoroughly wash and drain, plunge in gallon boiling water with 1 tablespoon salt and boil for 10 minutes. Take them up with skimmer, drain on sieve, press out all water, chop finely, place in saucepan. Cut 3 slices bread in 1/3 inch square pieces, place on plate, pour over them 1 tablespoon vinegar, then brown them in small frying pan with 1 tablespoon melted Crisco to golden color, add them to spinach, with 2 hard-cooked eggs cut into 8 pieces each, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt, sugar, grated nutmeg to taste, and 4 tablespoons cream. Mix well with wooden spoon and cook 10 minutes, lightly mixing once in a while, dress on vegetable dish and serve.
May 23
Potage, a la Monaco
*Mackerel, Cold, Vinaigrette
Cucumbers, Bechamel Sauce
Tomato and Artichoke Salad
Monte Carlo Pie
Coffee
*Mackerel, Cold, Vinaigrette—Select fine mackerel; clean, leaving head on, wrap in piece of cheesecloth, and boil in strong solution of vinegar and water until tender, taking care that it does not cook too long. 15 to 25 minutes should be sufficient. Make a vinaigrette sauce with 1/2 cup tarragon vinegar, 1 cup melted Crisco, 1 teaspoon made mustard, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon chopped shallots, and 2 teaspoons chopped capers. Put vinegar into basin, add mustard, little salt, stir in Crisco and chopped ingredients. Mix well together, lay mackerel, after removing from cloth, on long platter, pour over vinaigrette sauce and let marinate thoroughly, putting in refrigerator as soon as cool. Serve ice cold in bed of parsley, garnished with lemon slices, and pass vinaigrette sauce with it.
May 24
*Puree, a l’Indienne
Lamb Stew with Dumplings
Lettuce, French Dressing
Cheese Balls
Snow Pudding
Coffee
*Puree, a l’Indienne—2 large apples, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1 large onion, 1 large carrot, 1 turnip, white 2 leeks, 1 stalk celery, sprig parsley, 1 bay leaf, 1 tablespoon cocoanut, juice 1/2 lemon, 1 tomato, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon red pepper, 1 tablespoon curry powder, 1 teaspoon curry paste, 1/2 cup cream, some boiled rice, and 2 quarts of water.
Melt Crisco, cut up all vegetables (prepared) into rough pieces, fry them a little in hot Crisco, add also curry powder, and fry it. Do not peel apples; simply wipe, cut up and add with vegetables. When fried for 7 minutes, add all ingredients except cream, simmer till soft, then rub all through fine sieve, return to pan to reheat, and gently add cream. Serve rice on paper mat, as croutons are served with most soups.
May 25
*Fish Chowder
Cucumber and Tomato Salad
Cheese Croquettes
Bakewell Pudding
Coffee
*Fish Chowder—1 white fish weighing 5 pounds, 4 cups potato dice, 1/2 cup onion dice, 1/2 cup salt pork dice, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste, 4 cups hot water, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 4 cups milk, and 10 buttered crackers. Remove head and skin and cut fish into fillets. Cover head, skin and bones with cold water; simmer 20 minutes, strain. Reserve liquor. Parboil potatoes 10 minutes. Cook onion in salt pork until yellow. Arrange in layers, fish, potatoes, onions and salt pork; cover with water in which bones were cooked, and simmer until potatoes are tender. Thicken milk with Crisco and flour cooked together, combine mixtures, add seasonings, and pour over buttered crackers which have been previously soaked in cold milk. Do not allow onion or salt pork to burn.
May 26
*Turnip Soup
Beefsteak and Kidney Pie
Potatoes Peas
Lettuce Salad
Caramel Trifle
Coffee
*Turnip Soup—Take 2 pounds of peeled turnips, cut into small squares, place in a stewpan with 4 tablespoons Crisco, stir them over a quick fire, add pinch salt, 1 tablespoon flour, add 3 pints of stock, simmer gently for 1-1/2 hours, and pass whole through a sieve. Put back in stewpan, and add little seasoning. Bring to boil, and just before sending to table add 1 cup of good cream.
May 27
Chutney Canapes
Roast Sirloin of Beef
Franconia Potatoes Summer Squash
Olive Salad
Strawberry Ice Cream *Genoa Cake
Coffee
*Genoa Cake—1/4 pound Crisco, and 1/4 pound butter. Mix to a cream with 1/2 pound sugar, add little mace, stir in gradually yolk of 6 eggs and 1/2 beaten whites, 10 ounces flour, beat well for 1 minute, add 1 pound raisins, 1/4 pound citron, cut very fine, grated rind of 1 lemon, and 2 ounces chopped almonds. Mix well, add remainder of beaten whites last. Mix well, put in pan lined with paper, sprinkle top with chopped almonds and bake in slow oven.
May 28
Mock Consomme
Roast Crown of Lamb,
Currant Mint Sauce
Potato Balls Peas
Asparagus on Toast
*Carrot Salad
Raspberry Ice Cream
Coffee
*Carrot Salad—Scrape, cut into slices and then into fancy shapes, 4 large carrots. Soak in cold water for 1/2 an hour, and then cook in boiling unsalted water until tender. Drain and dry. Line salad bowl with crisp lettuce leaves, and arrange on top the carrots. Serve with following dressing: Rub sides and bottom of bowl with clove garlic, add salt and pepper to taste and 6 tablespoons melted Crisco; add piece of ice, if possible; stir until salt is dissolved, then add 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice. Beat until thick; use at once.
May 29
Raw Clams
Chicken Pie
*Stuffed Potatoes Broiled Tomatoes
Pepper and Cucumber Salad
Cheese Fingers
Pineapple Jelly
Coffee
*Stuffed Potatoes—Bake 7 good-sized potatoes. When done, cut off a lengthwise slice; scoop out potato with a spoon. Mash; add 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt and pepper to taste, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 egg whites beaten stiff. Refill skins with this mixture. Pile lightly, do not smooth, bake until potatoes are puffed and brown.
Decoration Day
May 30
Fruit Soup
Breaded Mutton Chops
Potatoes *Peas
Tomato Mayonnaise
Banana Charlotte Russe
Assorted Cakes
Coffee
*Peas—1 quart cooked green peas, 2 ounces of lean cooked ham cut into dice, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons good stock, 1 teaspoon flour, 1/2 small onion finely chopped, a pinch of sugar, grated nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste. Fry onion until lightly browned in Crisco, add flour and ham, stir over fire for a minute or two, then put in peas, stock, sugar, and nutmeg. Season to taste, simmer for ten minutes, stirring occasionally, then serve.
May 31
Milk Soup
*Beef Loaf, Brown Sauce
Potatoes Tomatoes
Radish and Watercress Salad
Vanilla Pudding, Jam Sauce
Coffee
*Beef Loaf—Mix together 3 pounds chopped raw beef, 1/4 pound of minced salt pork, 1 cup cracker dust, 2 teaspoons, each, of salt and pepper, and moisten all with 2 beaten eggs, teaspoonful onion juice, and teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Work in 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, and pack in a Criscoed mold. Cover; set in a roasting pan of boiling water, and cook in a steady oven for 2 hours. Serve with brown sauce.
June 1
Curried Lobster
*Boiled Stuffed Leg of Lamb
Potatoes Scalloped Sweet Corn
Cherry Salad
Frozen Watermelon
Coffee
*Boiled Stuffed Leg of Lamb—Have small, tender leg of lamb, and remove bone. Make forcemeat of 1/2 pound fresh mushrooms cut in pieces, 1/2 cup chopped boiled ham, 1/2 cup breadcrumbs, and 2 tablespoons melted Crisco. Season with pepper and salt, and put into the lamb in place of removed bone. Tie it up well, wrap in piece of cheesecloth, and boil in salted water, having juice 1/2 lemon, 1 onion, and few branches of parsley in it. Serve with currant jelly sauce; that is, 4 tablespoons butter melted together with 1/2 tumbler currant jelly and 1/2 glass white wine.
June 2
Green Vegetable Soup
Fried Chicken, Virginia Style
Cornmeal Bread Broiled Tomatoes
Bean Salad
*Strawberry Fritters
Coffee
*Strawberry Fritters—Have large, ripe strawberries, remove hulls and clean them thoroughly. Moisten each berry with little brandy, roll in sugar and stand till berries absorb considerable sweetness. Roll them in finest possible breadcrumbs and drop into hot Crisco. Sprinkle strawberries with powdered sugar when taking up, and serve with them sweetened whipped cream. Care must be taken that strawberries are not too ripe. They must be quite hard and firm to be perfectly satisfactory when served.
June 3
*Crab Soup
Salmon, la Francesca
Veal, Roasted
Chiffonade Salad
Cheese Crackers
Tipsy Pudding
Coffee
*Crab Soup—Remove cooked meat from 6 hard-shelled crabs and chop finely. Add 3 cups white stock, 2/3 cup stale breadcrumbs, 1 slice of onion, 1 sprig of parsley, and simmer 20 minutes. Blend together 1 tablespoon Crisco and 1 tablespoon flour, and add 1 cup cream, salt and red pepper to taste. Combine mixtures and bring to boiling point.
June 4
Boiled Halibut, Lobster Sauce
Beef Roll in Jelly
Italian Risotto *Hungarian Salad
Manhattan Pudding
Coffee
*Hungarian Salad—Mix equal parts shredded fresh or preserved pineapple, bananas in small pieces, and sections tangerines, and marinate together in French dressing. Fill banana skins with mixture, sprinkle generously with paprika, arrange on lettuce leaves, and serve with French dressing.
The dressing is made as follows: Put 4 tablespoons melted Crisco in cold bowl; if possible, put in small piece ice. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt, saltspoon pepper, and stir until salt is dissolved, add tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice. Beat for 3 minutes until dressing is as thick as good cream. Use at once.
June 5
Grapefruit Cocktail
*Roast Duckling, Apple Sauce
Rice Fritters Creamed Carrots
Macedoine Salad Wafers
Cheese Rhubarb Meringue Pie
Coffee
*Roast Duckling—This is prepared and trussed similarly to goose, but not usually stuffed. Roast from 30 to 40 minutes. Green peas are the usual accompaniment to roast duckling. Serve with apple sauce, which is made as follows: 1 pound cooking apples, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1/2 cup water, and sugar. Peel, core, and slice the apples, cook them in a stewpan with water and Crisco, add a little sugar to taste. Stir well, or pass through a sieve.
June 6
Hamburg Steak, Maitre d’Hotel
*Asparagus Baked Potatoes
Lettuce and Radish Salad
Strawberry Mousse Lady Fingers
Coffee
*Asparagus—Boil 2 cups asparagus tips in salted water 15 minutes, then drain them; while they are cooking put 1 cup milk in double boiler, and when boiling pour some of it on 2 lightly beaten eggs, stirring vigorously meanwhile, then put eggs into double boiler with milk, and stir until it begins to thicken. Add 1 teaspoon Crisco, salt and pepper to taste, and remove from fire. Cut asparagus tips into 1/2 inch pieces and add them to sauce. Take 6 stale rolls, cut off tops, remove inside, let them dry in oven; when crisp and hot fill each with asparagus in sauce, replace tops and serve.
June 7
Boiled Salmon, Egg Sauce
Creamed Potatoes New Peas
Dressed Lettuce
Cheese Crackers
*Chocolate Bread Pudding
Coffee
*Chocolate Bread Pudding—3/4 cup breadcrumbs, 2 cups scalded milk, 3 squares melted chocolate, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt to taste, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/4 cup cold milk, 3/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup Sultana raisins. Mix all ingredients in order given. Pour into a Criscoed baking dish, set into pan of hot water, and bake 1 hour in moderate oven; stir twice during baking to keep chocolate from rising to the top.
June 8
Veal Cutlet, Brown Gravy
Mashed Potatoes *Glazed Carrots
Pea Salad
Cottage Pudding, Strawberry Sauce
Coffee
*Glazed Carrots—For this, carrots must be cut into even cones or ovals, and it is convenient to use imported carrots in glass bottles. If these are used they are already boiled; if fresh carrots are used scrape, wash them and cut out little shapes with patent cutter, then boil slowly until tender, but not quite done, and put 4 cups of them in frying pan with 4 tablespoons melted Crisco, sprinkle with fine sugar, and stir over hot fire until they begin to brown; add 4 tablespoons stock they were boiled in, adding more stock if needed, and continue stirring until carrots are nicely glazed.
June 9
Roast Beef
Horseradish Relish
Asparagus Franconia Potatoes
Bean Salad
*Cherry Pie
Coffee
*Cherry Pie—1 quart ripe cherries, 1 yolk egg, 3 tablespoons cream, and 1/2 cup sugar. Wash cherries, stem and place in colander over dish to catch juice. Place thin layer of the following dough on shallow pan, sprinkle top with breadcrumbs. Spread stoned cherries over evenly. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Beat yolk well, add cream and cherry juice and pour over all. Bake in hot oven until well browned at bottom.
The dough is made as follows: 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 cup sugar and 1 egg. Mix dry ingredients. Work in Crisco with finger tips; add egg; mix. Toss on slightly floured board and roll a 1/4 inch thick. This makes enough dough for a large oblong pan.
June 10
Scotch Broth
Cold Roast Beef
Creamed Potatoes *String Beans
Tomato and Olive Salad
Vanilla Ice Cream
Crushed Raspberries
Coffee
*String Beans—If fresh beans are used pick them over, remove ends and “strings,” and boil for 1/2 an hour or more; then drain them, and add 1 tablespoon Crisco and 2 tablespoons milk, season to taste, and serve after 10 minutes’ slow cooking. If canned beans are used omit the first long boiling.
June 11
Vegetable Soup
Broiled Steak
Stuffed Tomatoes Baked Macaroni
*Pear and Pimiento Salad
Apricot Blanc-mange
Coffee
*Pear and Pimiento Salad—Fill each canned pimiento with 2 halves canned pears; place each pimiento in nest of lettuce and serve with following dressing: Put 1 teaspoon salt and 1 saltspoon black pepper in bowl, and stir into them with wooden spoon, very slowly, 4 tablespoons melted Crisco, and add 2 tablespoons vinegar, mixing it well with Crisco.
June 12
Cream of Tomato Soup
*Planked Salmon Potato Balls
Fresh Green Peas
Lettuce and Cucumber Salad
Cheese Bread-Sticks
Lemon Pudding Coffee
*Planked Salmon—Have salmon cut in steaks 1-1/2 or 2 inches thick. 2 steaks of average size can be placed on medium-sized plank. Crisco plank thoroughly, place fish upon it, and broil under gas broiler, turning flame low after first few moments. Or it can be baked in oven of range. Serve on plank, surrounded by potato balls cut with French vegetable cutter. Heat 1/4 cup cream, add salt and pepper to taste, and 3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley. Shake potato balls in this until well covered with seasonings. Serve Hollandaise sauce with planked salmon.
June 13
Strawberry Cocktail
Roast Lamb, Mint Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Carrots and Peas
*Cherry Roly Poly
Coffee
*Cherry Roly Poly—Roll pastry or a baking powder biscuit dough very thin, about 1/8 of an inch in thickness, sprinkle with sugar, and dot with ripe stoned cherries. Roll like a jelly roll, press, and close the ends as tight as possible. Tie in a floured cloth, and cook in boiling water 2 hours, or steam in steamer 1 hour. Remove from cloth and serve on hot platter with the following sauce: 1/2 cup Crisco, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 egg yolk, 2 tablespoons wine, and 2 egg whites. Cream Crisco; add sugar, yolk of egg and wine. Cook over hot water until hot. Remove from fire and add beaten whites of eggs.
June 14
Roasted Little Neck Clams
*Salmi of Lamb
Fried New Potatoes
Boiled Bermuda Onions
Individual Strawberry Pies
Coffee
*Salmi of Lamb—Cut cold roast lamb in thin slices. Cook 5 minutes 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1/2 tablespoon finely chopped onion. Add lamb, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and cover with 1 cup cold lamb gravy seasoned with Worcestershire sauce. Cook until thoroughly heated. Arrange slices overlapping one another lengthwise of platter, pour around sauce, and garnish with toast points. A few stoned olives and mushrooms improve this sauce.
June 15
Cream of Pea Soup
*Baked Brains
Mashed Potatoes
Escalloped Asparagus Romaine Salad
Greengage Ice Cream
Coffee
*Baked Brains—Prepare brain of an ox by washing and skimming it, and then steep it on back of range for 1 hour. Rub it with flour and salt, lay on it bits of Crisco, and set in oven, having added water to dish in which it is to bake. Bake it 1 hour, basting it often, and serve with mushroom sauce. Onion sauce may be substituted for the mushroom sauce.
June 16
*Baked Trout
Chicken Epicurean
New Potatoes String Beans in Cream
Tomato Salad
Pineapple Bisque
Coffee
*Baked Trout—Clean brook trout, season with salt, black pepper, and paprika. Lay in Criscoed baking pan, dredge with flour, sprinkle with chopped parsley and bits of Crisco, pour over little vinegar and water, and bake in hot oven until done, basting often with Crisco. Garnish with parsley, and serve hot with cream sauce.
June 17
Brunoise Soup
Porterhouse Steak Olives
Stuffed Potatoes *Beans
Belgian Salad
Compote of Cherries
Coffee
*Beans—Boil 1 quart beans until tender, salting them well when half cooked. Beat 1 tablespoon Crisco to a cream, beat in yolk 1 egg, 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley, 1 saltspoon black pepper, and 2 teaspoons lemon juice; when this sauce is well mixed stir it into beans, taking care not to break them, then serve.
June 18
Cream of Celery Soup
Stewed Chicken
Rice Croquettes Green Peas
*Watercress Salad
Lemon Jelly
Iced Coffee
*Watercress Salad—Take plenty fresh young sprigs of watercress, wash and dry them thoroughly, put them lightly in dish, add 3 sliced shallots. Pour over them dressing made with 3 parts melted Crisco and 1 of lemon juice or vinegar. Garnish with tufts scraped horseradish.
June 19
Roast Loin of Mutton
Creamed Spinach Baked Potatoes
Pineapple Charlotte
*Maids of Honor
*Maids of Honor—Crisco puff pastry, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon ground almonds, 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 4 tablespoons melted Crisco, and 1 tablespoon cocoanut. Roll out Crisco puff pastry and line 8 gem pans with it. Put eggs and sugar into basin, and beat them together for 15 minutes; then stir in lightly Crisco, ground almonds, cocoanut, and vanilla. Put 3 teaspoons into each gem pan and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. When cooked, sprinkle over with little sugar.
June 20
*Cream of Cucumber Soup
Grilled Salmon, Mayonnaise Sauce
Lamb Cutlets
Green Peas Mashed Potatoes
Cold Fruit Souffle
Coffee
*Cream of Cucumber Soup—2 large cucumbers, 8 onions, sprig parsley, handful spinach, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 1 quart white stock, 1 cup milk, 2 cups cream, 2 yolks eggs, nutmeg, 1 teaspoon sugar, pepper and salt to taste, croutons.
Peel cucumbers and cut firm part into dice, about 3 tablespoons; boil gently in salted water until soft, drain and reserve for soup. Cut remainder cucumber into pieces, cut onions small. Make Crisco hot in stewpan, fry onions and cucumber 5 minutes, add parsley with stock, let it simmer 20 minutes. Mix cornstarch with milk, stir in soup until it boils, let boil 10 minutes. Well wash and drain spinach, pound it in mortar, turn it into cloth and squeeze lightly as possible. Pour as much of this liquor into soup as will make it a delicate green color. Pass soup through sieve, turn it back into stewpan. Mix cream and yolks of eggs in basin, pour boiling soup on to them, stirring at same time, return to pan; it must not boil again or it will curdle. Season to taste with nutmeg, pepper, and salt. Cut bread into dice, fry pale color in hot Crisco, drain and toss them in sugar, sprinkle little red pepper over and place in oven 2 minutes. Warm dice of cucumber, put them in tureen with croutons and pour hot soup over and serve.
June 21
Fried Flounders, Lemon Sauce
*Beef, a la Mode
Cauliflower au Gratin
Creamed Potatoes
Fruit Chartreuse
Coffee
*Beef, a la Mode—3 pounds lean beef, larding bacon, 1 quart stock, 1 glass claret, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 carrots, 1 chopped onion, 10 button onions, sprig parsley, piece thyme, 1 bay leaf, juice half lemon, 2 cloves, salt and pepper to taste.
Trim, bone, and lard meat, place it in basin with wine, lemon juice, chopped onion, cloves, salt, pepper parsley, thyme, bay leaf, and let it stand 2 hours, basting frequently. Melt Crisco in stewpan, drain beef, and fry it brown, and at same time lightly fry button onions. Remove both from stewpan, put in flour, and fry until it acquires a nut-brown color; add stock and wine marinade in which meat was soaked, and stir until boiling. Replace meat and onions, season to taste, add carrots thinly sliced, cook gently for 3 hours, stirring and skimming occasionally. When done place on hot dish, strain sauce over, and garnish with groups of onions and carrots.
June 22
*Tournedos of Beef with Olives
Braised Lettuce Baked Potatoes
Alligator Pear Salad
Strawberry Ice Cream
Coffee
*Tournedos of Beef with Olives—2 pounds fillet beef, 8 croutons fried bread, 2 tomatoes, white sauce, olives, straw potatoes, 4 tablespoons Crisco, and seasoning.
Cut fillet in slices 1 inch thick, trim into small rounds with cutter. Melt Crisco in saute pan, fry tournedos quickly and brown nicely, season with pepper and salt, and dress each on round crouton of bread, cut same size as fillet, and fried. On this place thin slice tomato that has been slightly cooked in Crisco; in center of tomato place a teaspoon white sauce; on that, again, arrange olives. Cut potatoes in strips, and fry them golden brown in hot Crisco; arrange these round tournedos, and serve hot.
June 23
Soup with Marrow Balls
Sweetbread Patties Green Peas
Saratoga Chips Beet Salad
*Raspberry Batter Pudding
Coffee
* Raspberry Batter Pudding—1 pint milk, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons flour, salt, and melted Crisco. Put flour and good pinch of salt into a basin, make a well in center, break in eggs, stir, gradually mixing in flour from sides, and add milk by degrees until a thick, smooth batter is formed. Now beat well 10 minutes, add remainder of milk; cover, and let stand for at least 1 hour. When ready to use, put 1 tablespoon melted Crisco into pudding dish, and while it is heating give batter another good beating. Pour into dish, and bake in quick oven for 35 minutes. Serve with raspberries and sugar.
June 24
Puree of Peas
Baked Red Snapper, Tomato Sauce
Riced Potatoes Buttered Beets
Cabbage Salad
*Cup Puddings
Coffee
*Cup Puddings—These should be baked in little cups or molds. For 1 pudding, take 1 tablespoon of following ingredients: flour, Crisco, milk, currants, sugar.
For 3 puddings use treble quantities. Put flour into a basin with a pinch of salt, together with currants and sugar; melt Crisco to pour in, add milk, and mix well together. Put into Criscoed cups and bake in a moderate oven for a 1/4 of an hour. Tops should be nicely browned when done. These puddings are nice either hot or cold.
June 25
Soup with Bread Balls
Fried Spring Chicken, Milk Gravy
New Potatoes Asparagus
Tomato Mayonnaise
*Rhubarb Fanchonettes
Coffee
*Rhubarb Fanchonettes—2 pounds rhubarb, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup strained orange juice, 1 tablespoon powdered gelatine, 1 piece orange peel, 1 cup cream, whipped, flavored and sweetened, number of individual pastry shells.
Cut rhubarb into inch pieces. Hot house variety needs no peeling. Place in baking dish in layers, sprinkling sugar between layers. Add 2 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon Crisco, and a few thin strips orange peel, place in moderate oven, cover and bake 1 hour. Dissolve gelatine in orange juice and when rhubarb is cooked remove it from oven and add this mixture to it. Let it get cold. When ready to serve fill shells with rhubarb mixture, heap with whipped cream and decorate with crystallized orange peel.
June 26
*Curried Chicken
New Green Peas Young Carrots
Macedoine Salad
Boiled Custard with Snow Eggs
Coffee
*Curried Chicken—Clean and dress a 3-pound chicken and cut in pieces for serving. Put 1/3 cup Crisco in a hot frying pan, add chicken, and cook 10 minutes, tightly covered. Then add liver and gizzard, and continue cooking for 10 minutes longer.
Cut 2 medium-sized onions in thin slices, and add to chicken with 2 teaspoons salt and 1 tablespoon curry powder. Add sufficient boiling water to cover, and simmer until chicken is tender. Remove chicken, strain liquor, and thicken it with a roux of flour and water. Make border of boiled rice around platter or serving dish, arrange chicken in center, and pour curry sauce over it.
June 27
Boiled Salmon, Egg Sauce
Boiled Potatoes Peas
Cucumber Salad
*Almond Pudding Meringues
Coffee
*Almond Pudding—Beat separately yolks of 2 eggs and whites of 3, and mix to a cream with 4 tablespoons ground almonds, 4 tablespoons sugar, and 4 tablespoons Crisco. Mix in a wineglass of sherry, and pour into a Criscoed mold ornamented with nuts. Bake it, and serve hot.
June 28
Cream of Lettuce Soup Bread Sticks
*Halibut Ramekins
Baked Potatoes Asparagus
Ginger Ice Cream
Lady Fingers
Coffee
*Halibut Ramekins—Flake rather finely 1-1/2 pounds cooked halibut. See that it is free from bones and skin. Have ready 1 pint seasoned white sauce. Crisco few fireproof dishes.
Mix halibut with sauce, season with salt and pepper, then fill dishes with it, smooth over surface with wetted knife, and cover with thin layer white sauce. Sprinkle top with mixture of breadcrumbs and grated cheese, and place a few tiny bits Crisco here and there on surface. Bake in fairly hot oven 25 minutes, so as to get it thoroughly heated and surface browned. Dish up and serve hot.
June 29
*Beef Croquettes, Brown Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Beets
Fruit Salad
Cheese Crackers
Coffee
*Beef Croquettes—Melt 2 tablespoons Crisco, stir in 1 tablespoon flour, gradually add 1/2 pint milk, stir till it boils 4 minutes, add salt and pepper to taste; 1/2 pound cold cooked chopped beef and 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs. Turn out on plate to cool. Divide into 8 pieces, flour them and make into neat croquettes. Egg and breadcrumb them. Fry till brown in hot Crisco. Drain and serve hot with brown sauce.
June 30
*Breaded Veal Cutlets
Potatoes
Egg Plant
Cress, Whipped Cream Dressing
Cottage Pudding, Strawberry Sauce
Coffee
*Breaded Veal Cutlets—1-1/2 pounds fillet or neck of veal, Crisco for frying, 1/2 teaspoon chopped parsley, 1/4 teaspoon grated lemon rind, salt and pepper, egg and breadcrumbs.
Cut meat into thin slices, which afterwards trim into neat fillets. Beat egg, mix with it parsley, lemon rind, good seasoning of salt and pepper. Brush cutlets over with this preparation, coat them carefully with breadcrumbs, fry quickly and lightly in hot Crisco. Serve with either tomato or piquante sauce, or, when gravy is preferred, brown little flour in Crisco in frying pan, add little salt and pepper, pour in 1/4 of a pint of hot water, boil up, and strain.
July 1
Boned Chicken Stuffed Pepper Salad
Sliced Tomatoes
White and Brown Bread
*Ground Rice Pudding
Coffee Jelly
Fruit
*Ground Rice Pudding—1/2 cup ground rice, 3 cups milk, 3 eggs, 4 tablespoons sugar, rind 1/2 lemon, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/4 cup Sultana raisins, and brown breadcrumbs.
Boil milk slowly, sprinkle in ground rice, boil 6 minutes. Remove add sugar and Crisco. Mix well, cool a little, add eggs well beaten, stir and flavor with grated lemon rind. Crisco plain mold, dust with toasted breadcrumbs. Pour in pudding. Bake 1 hour in moderate oven. Serve with following sauce: 1 small lemon, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon cornstarch, 1 tablespoon sugar, and few drops red color. Put cornstarch into pan with lemon juice, add other ingredients and bring to boil.
July 2
Spanish Veal Balls
Summer Squash
Buttered Beets
Lettuce and Peppergrass Salad
*Snow Souffle
Iced Coffee
*Snow Souffle—Put 2 tablespoons Crisco and 4 tablespoons potato flour in pan, stir well together, add 1/2 cup milk, pinch salt, and stir till boiling. Remove from fire, add 4 tablespoons sugar, yolks 3 eggs 1 by 1, 1/2 teaspoon orange flower water, and fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Pour into Criscoed souffle mold, put greased paper round. Bake for 20 minutes in moderate oven. Serve at once.
July 3
Roast Lamb
New Potatoes
Green Peas *Summer Squash
Watercress and Cucumber Salad
Coffee Ice Cream
Lady Fingers
*Summer Squash—Cut summer squashes into small pieces and boil till tender in salted water. Put into a clean towel and wring out all water. Put squashes into saucepan and add to each cup of them, 2 tablespoons cream and 1/2 tablespoon Crisco. Heat thoroughly before sending to table.
Declaration Day
July 4
Fruit Cocktail
Carrot Soup Radishes
Stuffed Shoulder of Veal, Roasted
Potato Souffle Green Corn
Molded Spinach, French Dressing
Washington Ice Cream
*Flag Cake
Coffee
*Flag Cake—2/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup Crisco, 2/3 cup milk, 1-2/3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, whites of 4 eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add flour, salt, baking powder, milk, vanilla and whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Mix carefully, turn into Criscoed and floured tin and bake in moderate oven for 3/4 of an hour. Decorate with frosting and tiny flags.
July 5
Iced Pimiento Consomme
Small Tenderloins of Beef
Molded Potatoes *Corn Cakes
Orange, Grapefruit and Romaine Salad
Cup Custards
Coffee
*Corn Cakes—Make a custard from 2 eggs well beaten, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 tablespoon Crisco, and 1/2 tablespoon sugar; beat into this 3/4 of cup of canned corn. Sift together twice, 7/8 cup of flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt; beat into other mixture, and drop in Criscoed muffin rings by the tablespoon; set in a Criscoed dripping pan, and bake in a moderate oven until done.
July 6
Clam Bisque
Lamb Chops Escalloped Corn
Creamed Sweet Potatoes
German Salad *Cheese Drops
Strawberry Bavarian Cream
Coffee
*Cheese Drops—Add to 3-1/2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, and blend together until smooth. Remove from fire, add 4 tablespoons grated cheese, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and a dash of red pepper. Fold in stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs, and drop from end of spoon on a Criscoed baking sheet about 1 inch apart, and bake from 12 to 14 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve hot in folded napkin with salad course.
July 7
Beef Broth with Vermicelli
*Baked Bluefish
Cucumbers, French Dressing
Mashed Potatoes
Buttered Bermuda Onions
Heavenly Hash
Coffee
*Baked Bluefish—Select nice large bluefish, clean, and prepare it for baking. Wash it in salted water, and after drying it thoroughly, stuff with bread stuffing, and sew up opening and rub fish all over with salt. Then, having put small pieces of Crisco over, place in pan with enough water to cover bottom, and bake in hot oven 45 or 50 minutes. After it begins to bake, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Baste it often with liquid in pan and a little melted Crisco. When it is cooked and a nice color, remove carefully to hot plate. Do not break it. Serve with brown sauce poured round fish as garnish, or serve it in a separate dish.
July 8
Iced Bouillon
Broiled Chicken
Mashed Potatoes New Peas
Tomato Mayonnaise
*Red Raspberry Shortcake, Hot
Marshmallow Sauce
Coffee
*Red Raspberry Shortcake—4 cups sifted flour, 3 tablespoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons Crisco, milk, and 2 quarts red raspberries. Sift baking powder and salt with flour, rub in Crisco; then with fork stir in lightly and quickly sufficient milk to make soft dough—too soft to roll. Turn it into Criscoed tin, and bake in hot oven 30 minutes. Unmold, and leaving it inverted, cut circle around top within 1 inch of edge; lift off circle of crust, and with fork pick out crumb from center, leaving about 3/4 of an inch of biscuit around sides. Spread inside cake with butter, fill with crushed raspberries, which have been standing 1/2 hour or more mixed with enough sugar to sweeten them. Turn off juice from berries before filling cake. Replace circle of crust, and serve with following sauce: 1/2 pound marshmallows, 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar, and 1/2 cup boiling water. Cut marshmallows in pieces and melt in double boiler. Dissolve sugar in boiling water, add to marshmallows, and stir until blended. Serve hot with shortcake.
July 9
Sardines and Lemon
Olives Radishes
Cold Roast of Lamb, Mint Sauce
Creamed Potatoes Peas
Endive and Cheese Salad
*Cherry Souffle
Iced Tea
*Cherry Souffle—4 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3 whole eggs and 1 additional white, 4 tablespoons sugar, and 4 tablespoons chopped preserved cherries.
Put Crisco and flour in saucepan, mix over fire, add milk, stir till it boils and becomes thick; remove from fire to cool 10 minutes, add sugar, yolks eggs, 1 by 1 stirring each thoroughly, whites stiffly beaten up, then add chopped cherries. Pour all into Criscoed souffle mold. Put into saucepan with 1/2 an inch of boiling water. Put lid on saucepan and steam gently 3/4 hour. Turn out, send to table with jam sauce round.
July 10
Clam Broth
*Chicken Croquettes Peas
Buttered Rolls
Mayonnaise of Lettuce and Tomatoes
Tutti Fruitti Ice Cream
Macaroons
Coffee
*Chicken Croquettes—2 cups cooked chicken, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon celery salt, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon onion juice, and 1 cup white sauce.
Mix ingredients in order given. Cool mixture, shape, crumb and fry in hot Crisco. The white sauce is made as follows: 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk (heated), salt and pepper to taste. Melt Crisco, add flour, then add milk gradually. Cook over fire until smooth and thick. Add seasoning.
July 11
Roast Beef Yorkshire Pudding
Potato Croquettes
String Beans
Lettuce, French Dressing
*Fruit Pancakes
Coffee
*Fruit Pancakes—2 cups flour, 2 cups milk, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 eggs, nutmeg and salt to taste. Put flour into basin with salt, grated nutmeg, eggs, pour milk in by degrees, stirring smoothly; beat it well in order to let the air in, and then let it stand for 1/2 an hour. This allows starch grains in flour to swell, and so batter is lighter. When ready to fry, warm Crisco and pour in, stirring at same time. Make some Crisco hot in a small saucepan, ladle some into a frying pan, when very hot, pour back into saucepan, but do not drain it, then ladle sufficient batter in to cover the bottom of pan, shake it gently over rather a sharp fire, and, when nicely browned, toss it over and brown other side, turn on to a wire or sieve, sprinkle with sugar and ripe blackberries. Roll it up, and keep it warm while finishing remainder of batter. Dish them up on platter, each row crossways to prevent under ones from becoming sodden. Sprinkle sugar over top and serve.
July 12
Cottage Pie
New Stringless Beans
Olive Salad Cheese Biegnets
*Apricot Pudding
Iced Coffee
*Apricot Pudding—Put 1 pint milk into saucepan, add two tablespoons Crisco, and bring to boiling point. Mix 1/2 cup cornstarch with 1/2 cup milk and stir slowly into boiling milk, add 1/2 teaspoon salt. Heat 1 cup apricot jam, and strain off juice. Stir the pieces of apricot into cornstarch and cook for 5 minutes. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon chopped pistachio nuts into wet mold and pour in hot mixture. Turn out when cold and surround with apricot juice.
July 13
Cream of Peanut Soup
*Veal Chops
Mashed Potatoes String Beans
Onion Salad
Meringues Filled with Custard
Coffee
*Veal Chops—Trim neatly 8 chops and put into frying pan with 4 tablespoons Crisco, and fry over quick fire a nice brown color. As the meat will afterwards be cooked again, the frying process should be done quickly without actually cooking the chops. Place them between 2 boards, put weight not too heavy over top, and keep them until cold. Strain Crisco, and keep for further use. Cut 1/2 cup pork and 1/2 cup beef marrow into small pieces, pound in mortar; when fine, add 1 tablespoon anchovy paste, 1 teaspoon powdered savory herbs, 1 yolk egg, and piece of Crisco about size of nutmeg. Pound thoroughly until smooth, season with pepper and salt, rub through sieve, and cover side of each chop thickly with this. Put them on Criscoed baking sheet, cover with few fried breadcrumbs, sprinkle with melted Crisco and place in hot oven for 10 minutes. Dish up chops in circle on hot dish, and serve.
July 14
Steak, a la Parmesan Corn Pudding
Mashed Potatoes
Lettuce, French Dressing
*Cheese Balls
Peach Ice Cream
Coffee
*Cheese Balls—1/2 cup breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon Crisco, 1/4 teaspoon mustard, 1 cup grated cheese, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and a few grains red pepper. Rub Crisco into crumbs and cheese, add seasonings and egg well beaten. Shape in small balls and fry in hot Crisco. Drain and serve hot.
July 15
Stuffed Shoulder of Veal, Braised
Buttered Beets Potato Roses
Onion and Tomato Salad
Rhubarb Dumplings
*Mocha Cake
Coffee
*Mocha Cake—Sift 6 cups flour with 1 teaspoon baking powder into a basin, add 1 teaspoon each of powdered cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, and 1 cup Crisco; rub well together, add 1/2 a cup golden syrup, 1 cup strong cold coffee, 2 well beaten eggs, 1 cup currants and 1 cup sultana raisins, mix well together. Pour into Criscoed and papered tin and bake in moderate oven 2 hours.
July 16
Tomato Soup
Fried Chicken Waffles Pea Souffles
Creamed White Potatoes Bean Salad
*Snow Balls Coffee
*Snow Balls—1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup milk, 1/2 cup Crisco, 2-1/4 cups flour, 3-1/2 teaspoons baking powder, and whites of 4 eggs. Cream Crisco, add sugar gradually, milk, and flour sifted with baking powder; add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Steam 35 minutes in Criscoed cups; serve with stewed or preserved fruit.
July 17
Iced Currants
*Blanquette of Veal
Fried Artichokes Duchesse Potatoes
Cauliflower and Red Pepper Salad
Macaroon Trifle Coffee
*Blanquette of Veal—2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 pounds fillet of veal, 1/2 cup cream, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 large onion, 1 carrot, seasoning, 12 preserved mushrooms, and 12 whole peppers. Cut veal into square pieces, put them into stewpan with enough cold water to cover, bring it to boil, and skim well; add salt to taste, onion cut in quarters, carrot, whole peppers; cook gently 1 hour. Take up meat, strain stock, and measure off 1 pint. Melt Crisco in stewpan, stir in flour, add stock; boil and skim; cook for a few minutes. Add mushrooms, cut in slices, and cream; put in pieces of veal; make hot, but do not boil again; season nicely, dish up, sprinkle little chopped parsley over, and serve.
July 18
Onion Soup
Fricasseed Tripe
Baked Potatoes Stringless Beans
Tomatoes Stuffed with Pineapple
Bisque Ice Cream Coffee
*Fricasseed Tripe—Cut 2 pounds of tripe into narrow strips, add 1/2 cup of water, 2 cups milk, season with salt and pepper, add 1/4 cup Crisco mixed with 2 tablespoons flour; simmer for 30 minutes and serve hot. A little chopped parsley is an improvement.
July 19
Cream of Asparagus Soup
*Lamb Fricassee with Dumplings
Mint Jelly Green Peas
Romaine Salad
Cheese
Toasted Crackers
Watermelon
Coffee
*Lamb Fricassee with Dumplings— Cut up and dice enough cold lamb to make 1 quart. Season with salt and white pepper, put into Criscoed baking dish and pour over following sauce: Blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour, and cook until brown. Now add 2 cups water and when it boils season with salt, pepper, onion juice to taste and pour over meat. Cover and bake in moderate oven 20 minutes.
To make the dumplings, sift together 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon sugar, and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add 1 tablespoon Crisco and rub in with tips of fingers, then add sufficient milk to make soft dough. Roll out and cut into small biscuits. Place on top of lamb and bake in hot oven for 12 minutes. Serve hot.
July 20
Roast Beef’s Heart
Boiled New Potatoes
Cauliflower au Gratin
Baked Bean Salad
*Cheese Aigrettes
Apricot Meringue Pie
Coffee
*Cheese Aigrettes—Bring 2 tablespoons Crisco and 1/2 cup water to boiling point, then add 1/2 cup flour and stir until mixture leaves sides of pan. Cool, but do not allow to become cold, then add 2 eggs, 1 by 1, 4 tablespoons grated cheese, salt, pepper, and paprika to taste and beat well. Allow to stand in cool place 30 minutes. Drop by teaspoons into hot Crisco and fry a golden brown. Drain and sprinkle with grated cheese. Serve hot. The Crisco should not be too hot or the cheese will burn.
Vegetarian
July 21
Strawberry Cocktails
Macaroni Cutlets, Cheese Sauce
*Popovers
Tomato Mayonnaise
Pimiento Sandwiches
Frozen Banana Whip
Coffee
*Pop Overs—Beat up 3 eggs until light; add 1 cup milk and 1 teaspoon melted Crisco. Pour this gradually into 1 cup flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt, beating all the time until smooth. Crisco iron gem pans, put them in the oven, and when hot, take them out and fill them half full of this batter. Put them back in the oven and bake for 45 minutes. They should be at least 4 times their original bulk. If they fall, they are not thoroughly done. The oven should be hot.
July 22
*Pilau, a la Turque
Peppers Stuffed with Green Corn
Huntington Salad
Cheese Rolls
Baked Custard
Coffee
*Pilau, a la Turque—Put 1 1/2 cups of stock, with 1 cup stewed and strained tomato, over fire. When boiling add 1 cup well-washed or blanched rice and 1/2 teaspoon salt; stir lightly with fork, occasionally, until liquor is absorbed. Then add 1/2 cup Crisco, season with salt and pepper, and cook over hot water until tender; remove cover, and stir with fork before serving.
July 23
Vegetable Soup
*Fried Fish
Baked Shoulder of Mutton
Onion Puree
Chipped Potatoes
Fruit Jelly
Toasted Cheese Fingers
Coffee
*Fried Fish—Marinade 4 halibut steaks for 1 hour; drain, dip in salted flour, then in beaten egg, lastly in fine salted and peppered crumbs. Leave on ice for 1 hour, and fry in hot Crisco.
July 24
Lamb Potpie
Summer Squash
Mashed Potatoes
Dressed Cucumbers
Raspberry Float
*Cushion Cake
Iced Coffee
*Cushion Cake—Cream 1 cup Crisco with 1/2 cup sugar, add 2 well beaten eggs, and 1/2 cup milk. Sift 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, and add to Crisco mixture, with 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Divide into 2 parts, add to 1 part 2 tablespoons molasses, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1/2 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg. Bake in Criscoed and floured cake tin for 20 minutes. Take out of oven, spread white part on top, return to oven and bake until done.
July 25
*Tournedos of Lamb Rissole Potatoes
Carrots Peas
Grape and Pimiento Salad
Frozen Cheese
Toasted Crackers
Iced Coffee
*Tournedos of Lamb—Six lamb chops cut 2 inches thick, will be required. Remove bone and fat and with skewers arrange in 6 circular pieces. Around each wrap a thin strip of bacon, fastening in place with wooden skewers. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, place on well Criscoed broiler, and broil over clear fire 15 minutes. Remove to hot-platter, garnish with rissole potatoes, and pass mint jelly with them. The potatoes are done in this way: Peel and wash 8 Bermuda potatoes of uniform size, put in ice water for 15 minutes, dry in a towel, and fry until delicate brown in hot Crisco. Drain on paper, then bake until soft. Remove to serving platter, and pour around 1 cup of rich white or cream sauce or 1 cup of heavy cream scalded and seasoned.
Vegetarian
July 26
Cream of Green Peas
Bean Loaf with Rice
Stewed Corn
Tomato and Lettuce Salad
*Peach Pudding
Coffee
*Peach Pudding—Fill Criscoed baking dish full of peaches and pour over top a batter made of 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 well beaten egg, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1 cup milk. Bake in moderate oven 30 minutes. Serve with cream.
July 27
Anchovy and Pimiento Canapes
Halibut Baked, a la Creole
French Fried Potatoes
Hot Slaw
*French Pancakes
Coffee
*French Pancakes—4 tablespoons sugar, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup flour, 2 eggs, 1/2 tablespoon lemon extract, and 1 cup milk. Heat Crisco and mix other ingredients gradually to them, bake in six small criscoed plates for 5 minutes. When done, put jam between every alternate one, and serve high on a dish.
July 28
Puree of Fruit
Steak with Fresh Mushrooms
String Beans Riced Potatoes
Lettuce and Watercress Salad
*Cherry Blanc-mange
Coffee
*Cherry Blanc-mange—Put 1 quart of milk into a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon Crisco. Mix 1 cup cornstarch smoothly with 1/2 cup cold milk; when the milk boils stir in cornstarch and stir for 10 minutes, then add 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stew 2 cups cherries until tender in 1/2 cup water, add 2 tablespoons sugar. Rinse out a mold with cold water, arrange a few cherries in the bottom, then put in some blanc-mange, then rest of cherries mixed with cornstarch. Turn out when firm. Serve with milk.
July 29
Iced Tomato Bouillon
*Swiss Steak Mashed Potato
Egg Plant Fritters
Lettuce Salad, Chifonade Dressing
Strawberry Parfait
Coffee
*Swiss Steak—1 pound steak, 1 cup flour, salt and pepper, 4 skinned tomatoes, 1 sliced onion, and water. Have steak cut 2 inches thick, and pound into it the flour. Put steak into a skillet, with 3 tablespoons Crisco and brown on both sides. Then cover with water, adding sliced onion, tomatoes sliced and cover closely and let simmer for 3 hours. Just before steak is done add salt and pepper to taste. When done, the gravy is already made and is delicious.
July 30
Clear Soup
*Planked Chicken
Potato Croquettes Asparagus Tips
Boiled Rice Pineapple Salad
Vanilla Ice Cream Strawberry Sauce
Coffee
*Planked Chicken—2 spring chickens, 1 cup boiled rice, 1/2 pound mushrooms, and 1 glass guava jelly. Stew mushrooms; put chicken either in oven or under broiler, bone side to hottest part of fire. Heat and Crisco a plank; put chicken on, bone side down; sprinkle with melted Crisco, dust with salt and pepper and broil on board under gas for 1/2 an hour. Garnish with rice; pour over mushrooms. Place at corners small bread patties, holding the guava jelly.
July 31
*Baked Beans
Finger Rolls
Beet and Potato Salad
Lemon Jelly, Whipped Cream
Cafe Parfait
*Baked Beans—Wash 2 quarts of small white beans, put them in a saucepan, cover with cold water; as soon as they come to a boil, drain; put them in a fireproof baking dish, add 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1 chopped onion, salt and pepper to taste and 1/4 teaspoon mustard, fill dish with boiling water, cover tight, and bake from 5 to 6 hours; add more water as required to keep from getting dry. They can be warmed over as needed.
August 1
Brown Fricassee of Kidneys
Summer Squash New Cabbage Salad
*Blueberry Pie Coffee
*Blueberry Pie—Line a deep perforated tin with Crisco Plain Pastry; brush over with water or white of egg. Fill with floured blueberries; add sugar, Crisco, salt and vinegar. Allow 1 cup sugar to 3 cups berries, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon vinegar. Cover with crust and bake.
August 2
*Beef Olives
Braised Lettuce Stuffed Potatoes
Beet Salad Cheese Relish
Red Currant Cream Lady Fingers
Coffee
*Beef Olives—Cut 2 pounds of steak into pieces 4-1/2 inches long and 2 inches wide. Mix together in a basin 3 tablespoons breadcrumbs, 1 chopped onion, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and paprika to taste and 1 well beaten egg. Spread a little of this mixture on each piece of meat, roll up and tie with fine string. Melt 2 tablespoons Crisco in a pan, brown pieces of meat in it; stir in 1 tablespoon flour, gradually add 2 cups water, bring to boiling point and cook slowly 1-1/2 hours. Remove string and dish in a circle, season the gravy and strain over the meat.
August 3
Cream of Corn Soup
*Stuffed Flank Steak
Mashed Potato Shelled Beans
Onion and Mint Salad
Ivory Cream Coffee
*Stuffed Flank Steak—Buy a flank steak. Fry 2 tablespoons chopped onion in a 1/4 cup Crisco. Add 1/2 cup soft, stale breadcrumbs, 1/4 teaspoon mixed herbs, salt and pepper to taste. Spread over steak, roll and tie. Brown in 3 tablespoons Crisco, and remove to casserole or covered dish. To the Crisco in pan add an equal quantity of flour, and brown, then add 1 cup stock or boiling water, and 1 cup strained tomato, season with salt and pepper, pour over the roll, cover dish, and cook slowly until meat is tender. If cooked in casserole it may be served in same dish.
August 4
Fried Soft Shell Crabs, Sauce Tartare
Hashed Browned Potatoes
Pepper and Cucumber Salad
Cheese Fingers
*Apricot Omelet Coffee
* Apricot Omelet—Cut 6 preserved apricots into dice, and heat up in a little fruit juice. Beat up 5 eggs, add pinch of salt and 1 tablespoon sugar. Melt in an omelet pan or frying pan 2 tablespoons Crisco, when hot pour in beaten eggs and stir over quick fire till they commence to thicken, put in the prepared apricots, then shape quickly into an oval form by folding the ends. Allow the omelet to acquire a golden brown by putting it in the oven, turn out on to a hot dish, dredge with sugar and serve at once.
August 5
*Country Club Chicken
Sweet Potatoes Green Corn
Tomato Salad Apple Whip
Chocolate Wafers Coffee
*Country Club Chicken—Wash 2 broilers or quite young chickens, cut them in halves or quarters if they be large enough, wipe them and dip each piece in beaten egg, well seasoned with salt and pepper and mixed with cream. Roll pieces in breadcrumbs and place them in Criscoed pan, dot generously with Crisco and place in hot oven for 15 minutes. Now put chicken in hot kettle, cover and let smother and steam for 30 minutes or until tender on a slow fire. Place chicken on hot platter; add half cup hot cream to gravy in kettle and strain it over chickens.
August 6
*Baked Liver and Bacon
Mashed Potatoes Corn on Cob
Lettuce and Pineapple Salad
Stewed Pears Cream
Hasty Cake Coffee
*Baked Liver and Bacon—Select liver, wash it well, rub it with Crisco, and place it in vinegar with 1 chopped shallot, a little chopped parsley, and salt and pepper to suit taste. Let it stand overnight; roast it, adding strips of bacon. Baste it frequently with the vinegar mixture. When done, make brown gravy, and serve very hot.
August 7
Grilled Trout Chicken Saute
*Souffled Squash Potato Croquettes
French Salad Fruit Compote
Coffee
*Souffled Squash—Take medium-sized Hubbard squash, remove seeds and stringy portion, and pare. Place in steamer and cook over boiling water for 30 minutes. Mash and season with Crisco, salt and pepper to taste. To 2 cups of the mashed squash, add gradually 1 cup cream, when blended, yolks of 2 well beaten eggs, and finally the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Pour into Criscoed souffle dish and bake in moderate oven till firm. Serve at once.
August 8
Clam Cocktail
Roast Lamb, Mint Jelly
Rice Fritters Lima Beans
Lettuce and Banana Salad
*Windsor Tartlets
Iced Coffee
*Windsor Tartlets—Crisco Plain Pastry, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1-1/2 tablespoons cornstarch, 5 powdered macaroons, 18 glace cherries, 1 piece of lemon peel, and 1/2 tablespoon chopped almonds.
Put Crisco and sugar into 1 basin and beat them to a cream. Add yolks of eggs, 1 at a time, and beat each well in. Chop cherries and peel, add them and macaroons to mixture, mix thoroughly, add almonds and cornstarch. Roll out Crisco Plain Pastry and line small tartlet tins thinly with it. Beat whites of eggs to stiff froth and stir lightly into mixture. Fill each lined tin three parts full. Bake them in moderate oven until mixture is set and brown. Dust with sugar and serve either hot or cold. Place crossbars of pastry over mixture, if liked. Stale cakecrumbs can be used instead of macaroons.
August 9
Casserole of Lamb Rice
Spiced Peaches *Macaroon Pudding
After Dinner Mints
Coffee
*Macaroon Pudding—Soak 6 macaroons in 1/2 cup milk. Heat 2 cups milk in double boiler, add 2 tablespoons cornstarch moistened with 1 well beaten egg, 1 teaspoon Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and macaroons. Cook for 20 minutes, remove from fire, add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Turn into Criscoed and sugared pudding dish, sprinkle 1/2 cup sugar on top, and cover with sliced peaches. Serve cold.
August 10
Tomato Bisque Croutons
Potato Croquettes Fried Egg Plant
Celery and Apple Salad
*Chocolate Pudding
Coffee
*Chocolate Pudding—Crisco a mold or basin. Beat 3 tablespoons Crisco and 2 tablespoons sugar to a cream, then beat in 3 yolks of eggs. Dissolve 11/2 teacups grated chocolate smoothly in 1 cup milk, add it to Crisco mixture, with 2 cups cakecrumbs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and whites of eggs stiffly beaten. Fold the whites in gently. Pour into prepared mold, cover with Criscoed paper and steam for 2 hours. Turn out and serve with white sauce. This mixture may be placed in a Criscoed pudding dish and baked in a moderate oven.
August 11
Fried Chicken, a la Maryland
French Fried Potatoes *Stewed Onions
Stuffed Tomato Salad
Musk Melon with Ice Cream Coffee
*Stewed Onions—Peel onions and boil in boiling salted water till tender. When done, drain, and turn into hot vegetable dish. Melt 2 tablespoons of Crisco in saucepan, then stir in 1 tablespoon flour, mix well, add 1 cup milk and stir till boiling, add salt and pepper to taste and pour over onions.
August 12
Broiled Ham
Baked Potatoes Green Corn Custard
Apple Salad Grape Juice Syllabub
*Tilden Cake
Coffee
*Tilden Cake—Cream 1/4 cup Crisco with 1 1/2 cups sugar, add 4 well beaten eggs, 1 cup milk, sift in 3 cups flour, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup cornstarch, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and add 2 teaspoons lemon extract. Turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours in moderate oven.
August 13
Roast Fowl with Chestnuts and
Mushrooms.
Franconia Potatoes Shell Beans
Lettuce and Tomato Salad
Peach Short-Cake Coffee
*Roast Fowl with Chestnuts and Mushrooms—Stuff 1 large or 2 small fowls with chestnuts or mushroom stuffing, truss it, brush with melted Crisco, dust with salt and pepper, and put on a rack in pan and in a hot oven until beginning to brown, reduce heat, and cook 1 or 2 hours, basting often. Add to pan 1/2 cup hot water, 1 slice salt pork, diced, tiny bit bay leaf, 1 clove, and sprig of parsley. If with mushrooms pour over little sherry mixed with cream. When done place fowl on platter, pour off all fat in pan but 3 tablespoons, add 2 tablespoons flour and slightly color, add 1 cup stock from giblets cooked with 1 slice of salt pork, salt and pepper, a little lemon juice, and minced giblets. Serve surrounded with chestnut or mushroom puree put through a pastry bag and tube in roses. Place a small piece of canned red pepper on each rose and serve gravy in boat.
August 14
Celery Soup
Braised Ox Tongue
*Mashed Turnips Baked Potatoes
Waldorf Salad
Ginger Ice Cream Coffee
*Mashed Turnips—Peel and dice 3 turnips, cover with boiling salted water and cook till tender; drain and press the water well out of them. Return to pan and add 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 saltspoon white pepper, beat and mash them well together, when thoroughly hot turn into vegetable dish and serve.
August 15
Fish Souffle
Braised Stuffed Shoulder of Mutton
Breaded Potatoes *Carrots, a la Poulette
Pineapple Jelly
French Pastry
Coffee
*Carrots, a la Poulette—Boil 2 bunches of carrots until tender in boiling salted water, then drain. Blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1 tablespoon flour, when smooth add 1 cup milk and stir till boiling, add salt, pepper and paprika to taste, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley and cook for 5 minutes, then add carrots and allow to cook for 5 minutes longer. Serve hot.
August 16
Cream of Rice Soup
Hanoverian Steaks
*Hashed Browned Potatoes
Carrots en Casserole
Custard Souffle, Foamy Sauce
Coffee
*Hashed Browned Potatoes—Sprinkle 2 1/2 cups cold boiled potato cubes with salt and white pepper to suit taste. Melt 1 1/2 tablespoons Crisco; add 1 tablespoon flour and 1/2 cup brown stock. Cook 5 minutes; add potato cubes; cook 10 minutes, stirring, without breaking potatoes. Melt 1 tablespoon Crisco in another frying pan. When brown, turn in potatoes, spread evenly, and cook 10 minutes; fold like an omelet, and serve hot.
August 17
Lamb Chops
Peas *Chantilly Potatoes
Turkish Salad
Fruit Ice Cream
Coffee
*Chantilly Potatoes—Prepare nicely seasoned, lightly mashed potatoes and mound on a hot platter. Beat 1/2 cup cream until stiff, add 1 teaspoon melted Crisco, 1/2 cup grated cheese, season to taste with salt, pepper and red pepper. Pile lightly on to the potato and put in oven to brown. Be sure that the oven is very hot.
August 18
Watermelon Cocktail
Cannelon of Beef
Potatoes *Creamed Kohl Rabi
Stuffed Celery
Meringues Filled with Ice Cream
Coffee
*Creamed Kohl Rabi—Slice kohl rabi, boil 20 minutes or until nearly tender, and arrange in a baking dish in layers with the following sauce: 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons flour, 1/2 pint milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1 saltspoon pepper. Rub Crisco and flour together; add milk, cold. Stand saucepan over fire and stir continually until it reaches the boiling point; take from fire, and add salt and pepper. Then strain. Season each layer with pepper and salt, sprinkle the top with breadcrumbs and bake 20 minutes.
Vegetarian
August 19
Cream of Turnip Soup
Risotto
Asparagus Salad
Coffee Souffle
*Ginger Crisps
Iced Tea
*Ginger Crisps— Cream 1/2 cup Crisco with 1/2 cup sugar, add 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon and nutmeg, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and flour to make stiffish dough. Roll thin, cut out with cutter and bake in quick oven.
August 20
Corned, Beef
Buttered Potatoes *New Beets
Lettuce, Italian Dressing
Tapioca Cream
Coffee
*New Beets— Peel hot cooked beets, cut into slices, and toss about for 3 or 4 minutes in saucepan which contains 3 tablespoons Crisco to which has been added 1 teaspoon plain vinegar, or a few drops of tarragon, 2 cloves, and 1 teaspoon sugar.
August 21
Cold Sliced Corned Beef
Baked Potatoes Jellied Vegetables
Pea Salad
*Countess Pudding
Coffee
*Countess Pudding—Line small Criscoed platter with Crisco pastry. Put 1 tablespoon Crisco in saucepan, add 1 cup milk, when warm pour over three tablespoons chopped cocoanut, add 1 tablespoon sugar. Allow to remain 30 minutes, add 3 yolks of eggs well beaten, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, pour into platter, bake 30 minutes in hot oven. Beat up whites of eggs, add pinch salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, pile on top of pudding and sprinkle with cocoanut. Brown in slow oven. Serve hot or cold.
Vegetarian
August 22
*Succotash French Fried Potatoes
Tomato Jelly Salad
Orange Marmalade Ice Cream
Caramel Cake
Coffee
*Succotash—Boil 1 dozen ears of corn for 3 minutes. Cut corn from cob, taking very small piece from top of each grain, then press out pulp. Mix this with an equal quantity of nicely cooked lima beans; add Crisco, salt and white pepper to taste; reheat and serve.
August 23
Fish Timbales, Cream Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Stewed Okra
Cucumber Salad
Cheese Straws
*St. Leonard’s Pudding
Coffee
*St. Leonard’s Pudding—Line edge of a pudding dish with pastry, and spread 2 tablespoons of jam in the bottom. Blend 4 tablespoons Crisco with 1/2 cup flour, when smooth stir in 1 cup milk, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 2 yolks of eggs, stir well together and pour over jam, bake 30 minutes. Beat up whites of eggs to a stiff froth, add 1 tablespoon sugar, and arrange roughly on the top. Place in oven until lightly browned.
August 24
*Boiled Mutton, Caper Sauce
Riced Potatoes String Beans
Olive Salad
Toasted Crackers Cheese
Plum Compote Coffee
*Boiled Mutton—Wipe leg of mutton, put on fire, barely covered with boiling water, and let boil about 10 minutes, then simmer until tender; season with salt when half cooked. A few slices of onion, turnip, and carrot, or 2 or 3 stalks of celery, may be added while cooking. When tender, brush over the meat with melted Crisco and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. Serve with caper sauce which is made as follows: Mix 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1 tablespoon flour; add 1 cup boiling water; stir it over fire until thick; add to it 1 hard-cooked egg chopped fine and 2 tablespoons of capers.
August 25
Barley Broth
Mutton Souffle
Sweet Corn Creamed Carrots and Peas
*Peach Cobbler
Coffee
*Peach Cobbler—Sift 1-1/2 cups flour and 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder. With tips of fingers work into flour 1 tablespoon Crisco, and when well mixed add 1/2 cup milk.
Peel and slice 4 peaches, and mix with 3/4 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons melted Crisco. In bottom of baking dish invert a cup, around this arrange peaches, and over all place dough patted out to about 3/4 of an inch in thickness. Bake in moderate oven until crust is brown and peaches are tender. This will require about 40 minutes. The cup keeps dough from lying on fruit and becoming soaked with juice.
August 26
*Beef Steak Pudding
Spaghetti with Tomato
Potatoes on Half Shell
Green Pepper Salad
Apricot Pudding
Coffee
*Beef Steak Pudding—Line a Criscoed basin with plain pastry. Mix together on a plate 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper for seasoning. Cut 1 pound lean beef in thin slices, dip them in the seasoning, and place them lightly in the basin; split 1 sheep’s kidney, skin and cut in thin slices; dip them also in the seasoning, and put them in basin, and pour over 1 cup of water for gravy. Wet the edges of the paste on basin; roll out a piece of paste large enough to cover the dish; place it on, press down at the edges, and sprinkle a little flour over top. Now dip a pudding cloth in boiling water, tie it tightly over the top, and plunge the pudding in plenty of boiling water; then boil for 3 hours. Remove the cloth, and turn the pudding out on a dish. Liver and bacon mixed, or mutton, makes a good pudding of this kind.
August 27
Steamed Clams
Vegetable Salad
Brown Bread Sandwiches
Peach Tapioca
*Princess Cake
Coffee
*Princess Cake—Line small square cake tin with plain Crisco pastry. Sprinkle in 1/2 cup cleaned currants. Cream 1/2 cup Crisco with 1 cup sugar, then add 3 well beaten eggs, 3 cups flour, 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Divide mixture into 2 portions. Add 1 tablespoon grated chocolate and 4 tablespoons milk to 1 portion. Put cake mixtures in spoonfuls on top of currants and bake in moderate oven for 35 minutes. Serve in square pieces.
August 28
Iced Bouillon
Pulled Bread
*Fillet of Beef, Horseradish Sauce
Franconia Potatoes
Corn Souffle
Endive, French Dressing
Salted Triangles
Violet Mousse
Coffee
*Fillet of Beef—Trim fillet into good shape. Lard it plentifully, letting the whole upper surface be perforated with lardoons. Place in baking pan thin slices of larding pork, over pork place layer of chopped onion, carrots, turnip, and celery; lay tenderloin on top. Pour in 1 cup stock, add 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 4 sprigs parsley, 1 bay leaf, and 2 cloves. Bake in hot oven 30 minutes, and baste frequently. Remove when done; strain off gravy and skim off grease. Blend 1 tablespoon Crisco with 1 tablespoon flour in a pan, add gravy strained from pan, 1/2 cup grated horseradish, salt and paprika to taste and bring to boiling point, then add 2 tablespoons lemon juice and 1 tablespoon vinegar. Spread sauce on hot serving dish and lay fillet on it.
Vegetarian
August 29
Baked Macaroni, Tomato Sauce
Green Corn
*Fried Egg Plant
Cantaloupe Salad
Marmalade Pudding
Iced Coffee
*Fried Egg Plant—Peel good-sized egg plant; cut into slices of 1/4 inch. Dust with salt and pepper; dip in beaten egg; roll in fine breadcrumbs and saute in hot Crisco. When they are brown on 1 side, turn and brown on the other. If preferred, the egg plant may be dipped in thin batter instead of egg and crumbs, and fried.
August 30
*Clam Chowder
Stuffed Tomato Salad Welsh Rarebit
Lemon Pie Coffee
*Clam Chowder—Remove heads from 4 cups clams and chop. Parboil 4 cups potatoes. Cook 1 chopped onion and 1/2 cup salt pork cut in cubes 15 minutes. Arrange clams, potatoes, onion and pork in layers in saucepan; cover with 3 cups boiling water, and simmer till tender. Blend 3 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour, add 4 cups scalded milk and stir till boiling; add clam mixture, seasonings to taste, 1 dash of Tabasco sauce, and serve hot.
August 31
Bisque of Clams and Peas
Stuffed Peppers
*Cheese Salad Toasted Crackers
Lemon Sherbet Whipped Cream
Coffee
*Cheese Salad—To 1 cup cooked chopped chicken, add 1/2 pound soft American cheese and 1/2 cup pickled chopped cauliflower. Rub through sieve, yolks of 2 hard-cooked eggs, add 1 teaspoon French mustard, 4 tablespoons melted Crisco, 3 tablespoons vinegar, red pepper, paprika, and salt to taste. Pour this sauce over salad and garnish with whites of eggs cut in slices and branches of pickled cauliflower.
September 1
*Cauliflower Soup
Roast Beef, Brown Gravy
Oven-Panned Potatoes
Creamed Carrots
Celery and Green Pepper Salad
Coffee
*Cauliflower Soup—Cut large parboiled cauliflower into thick slices, also 2 large onions and heart of a stalk of celery. Fry these in hot Crisco. When done to a golden color, remove them from pan to drain. Have ready stewpan of chicken and veal stock, ready seasoned as for table, then place in slices of cauliflower, onions, and celery, and allow them to simmer until vegetables can be broken with 2 forks. Add to this 1 glass of Madeira wine. Pull stewpan aside, and stir in 2 beaten yolks of eggs, and enough cream to make whole thickness of rich cream. Let all simmer, but not boil. Send to table with small dice-shaped pieces of toast.
September 2
Caviare on Toast
Fricassee of Chicken Banana Fritters
Boiled Potatoes Creamed Onions
Vegetable Salad
*Snow Pudding with Custard
Coffee
*Snow Pudding with Custard—Mix 2 tablespoons arrowroot with 3 tablespoons cold milk. Boil 1 cup milk then pour it on to mixed arrowroot, pour back into pan and boil gently for 8 minutes, stirring all the time, then allow to cool. Stir in yolks of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons sugar, pour into Criscoed pudding dish; beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth and mix lightly in. Dust nutmeg over top and bake in moderate oven 10 minutes. Serve quickly with custard.
September 3
*Stewed Liver with Mushrooms
Baked Potatoes Scalloped Egg Plant
Celery and Apple Salad Peach Trifle
Sponge Cake Coffee
*Stewed Liver with Mushrooms—Melt 1 tablespoon Crisco and add 1-1/2 tablespoons flour. Brown by long slow cooking. Add salt and pepper and 2 cups water. Cook till as thick as good cream. Have 1 pound of calf’s liver cut into 2-inch cubes. Pour boiling water over them and drain immediately. Drop these into brown sauce and cook slowly 10 or 12 minutes. They must not cook rapidly nor too long. In the meantime peel some mushrooms if they are fresh and require such treatment, and drop into melted Crisco and allow to simmer. Just before taking up liver add mushrooms.
September 4
Noodle Soup Lamb Chops
*Cauliflower French Fried Potatoes
Watercress Salad
Plum Tart Coffee
*Cauliflower—Boil and drain 1 cauliflower and dredge top with pepper and salt, sprinkle with grated cheese, and pour little melted Crisco over it. Set in oven for 5 minutes to brown, and serve surrounded with tomato sauce.
September 5
Hot Boiled Tongue, Lemon Sauce
Boiled Potatoes French Fried Parsnips
Cauliflower Salad
*Baked Quinces Jam Cake Coffee
*Jam Cake—Cream 2/3 cup Crisco with 1 cup sugar, add 3 well beaten eggs, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 cups flour, 1/2 glass strawberry preserves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon each cloves, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, mix and bake in layers. Put strawberry preserves between layers, and white icing on top.
September 6
Planked Bluefish with Potato Border
Grilled Tomatoes *Corn Creole
Pepper Salad Cheese Pasties
Grape Juice Water Ice Coffee
*Corn Creole—Put 2 cans corn into saucepan with 2 tablespoons chopped green peppers and 1 cup milk, and cook, slowly 10 minutes; season with salt and pepper, add 2 tablespoons Crisco and serve. This may be put in baking dish, covered with breadcrumbs, and baked 15 minutes.
September 7
*Chestnut Soup
Smothered Chicken Parsley Potatoes
Peppers Stuffed with Corn
Pineapple Salad Almond Custard
Coffee
*Chestnut Soup—Boil 1 quart chestnuts 20 minutes, then remove shells and brown inner skin, and put into saucepan with sufficient boiling water to cover them. Add piece lemon rind and 1 teaspoon salt, when soft remove rind and rub through a sieve. Then pour over them stirring all the time, 2 quarts white stock, 1/2 cup cream, 1 tablespoon Crisco rolled with 2 tablespoons flour, seasoning of salt and pepper. Bring to boiling point, remove from fire and serve hot.
September 8
*Planked Smelts
Baked Lamb Chops
Breaded Beets Riced Potatoes
Avocado Pear Salad
Apricot Cream Coffee
*Planked Smelts—Crisco a plank quite generously, and place upon it smelts that have been split, cleaned, and seasoned, and squeeze liberal amount of lemon juice over them. Arrange in form of large fish shape, and garnish with potato roses put on with pastry tube and sprinkle with tiny bits of Crisco and finely chopped parsley. Place plank in oven and cook until potatoes are slightly browned. Garnish before taking to table with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, dressed in vinegar, between potato roses.
September 9
Soft Shell Crabs on Toast
Broiled Steak
Creamed Potatoes *Stuffed Onions
Oyster Plant Salad
Mint and Pineapple Sherbet
Jumbles Coffee
*Stuffed Onions—Boil 8 large onions in boiling salted water till tender. Drain, and with sharp knife cut centers from each. Mix together in a basin 2 tablespoons chopped cooked ham, 3 tablespoons crumbs, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 beaten egg, salt, pepper, and paprika to taste, and 1 tablespoon chopped parsley. Fill with this mixture, sprinkle each with crumbs and dot with Crisco. Place on baking dish and bake in moderate oven 1 hour. Spanish onions are best to use.
September 10
Braised Ox Tails with Chestnuts
Boiled Sweet Potatoes
*Baked Stuffed Tomatoes
Lima Bean Salad
Peach Chartreuse
Coffee
*Baked Stuffed Tomatoes—Prepare tomatoes by scooping out centers. Put into a basin 1 cup crumbs, season with salt and pepper, 1 dozen chopped olives, 2 tablespoons chopped capers, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 tablespoon Crisco, beaten yolks 3 eggs, and moisten with stock. Fill tomatoes and set in hot oven to bake. Sprinkle top with crumbs and dot with Crisco.
September 11
Oysters au Gratin
Sirloin Steak, Anchovy Sauce
Duchesse Potatoes *Buttered Beets
Red Cabbage and Celery Salad
Apricots Parisienne
Coffee
*Buttered Beets—Boil 1 dozen small beets in plenty of water and when tender put into cold water, slip peeling off of them, cut them in thin slices and put in saucepan with 4 tablespoons Crisco, pinch of salt and little pepper. Add before they are quite hot 1 tablespoon vinegar.
September 12
Fish Croquettes Cucumber Puree
Broiled Duckling, Apple Sauce
*Fried Cauliflower Potatoes
Olive Salad
Omelette Souffle Coffee
*Fried Cauliflower—Remove large outside leaves from cauliflower, and cut flowers from stalk in symmetrical bunches and drop in salted ice water for a few moments. Cook in scalded milk and water until tender, then drain and let cool, and rub well with melted Crisco, which has been salted and peppered. Dip into frying batter and fry in hot Crisco until golden brown, draining upon white paper.
September 13
Clam Cocktails
*Stewed Squabs Grape Jelly
Potato Balls Green Corn
Watermelon Frappe Coffee
*Stewed Squabs—Cut 2 squabs into neat joints. Put 1 cup water in saucepan when it boils lay in squabs, 1 sliced onion, and 1 slice of carrot, simmer for 1-1/2 hours. Blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour, add 1 cup stock from squabs, salt and pepper to taste and boil for 5 minutes stirring all the time. Arrange the squabs on a hot dish and strain over the sauce.
September 14
Oysters *Porterhouse Steak
Scalloped Tomatoes Lima Beans
Apple and Chestnut Salad
Pear Sponge Coffee
*Porterhouse Steak—Have large porterhouse steak well trimmed and shaped, and slit with sharp knife an opening flatwise through sirloin and tenderloin. Make forcemeat of 1 dozen olives chopped, 2 pounded anchovies, 1 chopped red pepper, salt and onion juice to taste, and 2 tablespoons melted Crisco. With this forcemeat fill smoothly cavities made in steak. Pinch steak together firmly at edges and set away on ice for 1 hour or even longer. Broil them over clear fire and serve without sauce.
September 15
Pea Soup
*Impanada Celery Mayonnaise
Apple Trifle Coffee
*Impanada—Cut up raw chicken, and flour each piece well. Line deep dish with slices raw sweet potato, slices raw white potato, some of chicken, little onion, few slices of bacon, salt and pepper to taste, and 1 can of tomatoes chopped fine, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and 1 tablespoon vinegar. Cover top of dish with sweet and white potatoes. Bake very slowly from 2 to 3 hours. Serve hot. This takes 3 medium-sized sweet potatoes and 6 medium-sized white potatoes.
September 16
*Baked Ham
Baked Potatoes Brussels Sprouts
Spiced Grapes Apple Salad
Ice Cream with Kisses
Coffee
*Baked Ham—Soak ham over night then wash and scrape it. Put it into cold water; let it come to boiling point then simmer for 2 hours. Let the ham cool in the water; then remove and draw off the skin. Bake in moderate oven for 2 hours; baste it frequently; using 1 cup of sherry wine, 2 spoonfuls at a time; then baste with melted Crisco. When done, cover with a paste made of browned flour and browned sugar moistened with sherry, and return to oven to brown.
September 17
*Oyster Bisque
Broiled Lamb Chops
Griddled Sweet Potatoes
Bean Croquettes, Tomato Sauce
Cauliflower Salad
Cocoanut Custard
Coffee
*Oyster Bisque—Boil 1 quart oysters in their own liquor with about 1 pint mildly-flavored white stock. Let boil for 1/2 an hour or even longer. Take up and strain, put back to boil, season with salt and white pepper as needed, add 1 quart rich milk and 1/2 a pint of cream. Blend together 1 tablespoon potato flour with 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, and with this thicken soup till it is smooth and velvety.
September 18
Hamburg Loaf, Tomato Sauce
Maitre d’Hotel Potatoes
Beet and String Bean Salad
Cheese Creams
*Chocolate Pudding with Macaroons
Coffee
*Chocolate Pudding with Macaroons—Put 3 cups milk to boil. Have 5 tablespoons grated chocolate in pan with 1/2 cup boiling water and 4 tablespoons sugar. When chocolate paste is smooth pour in milk. Mix 4 tablespoons cornstarch with 1 cup milk, add 1 teaspoon Crisco, and 1/4 teaspoon salt, and with this thicken boiling milk. Add 1 cup macaroon crumbs and beaten whites of 2 eggs. Pour into wet mold and set on ice 1 hour.
September 19
Vegetable Soup
Roast Spare Ribs, Apple Sauce
*Sweet Potatoes, Southern Style
Orange Custard
Coffee
*Sweet Potatoes, Southern Style—Bake sweet potatoes until thoroughly done. Remove from oven and cut in halves lengthwise; remove potato from skins carefully, so as to keep skins in condition to refill. Mash potato, adding sufficient melted Crisco and cream to moisten. The potato mixture should be of the consistency of mashed potato when put back in shells. Season with salt, pepper, and a very little sherry. Refill skins, brush tops with Crisco and brown 5 minutes in hot oven.
September 20
Broiled Striped Bass
Porterhouse Steak with Olives
Baked Creamed Potatoes
*Asparagus, Italian Style
String Bean Salad
Pineapple Fluff
Coffee
*Asparagus, Italian Style—Cut tender parts of 2 bunches of asparagus into short lengths and set to boil till quite tender. Take up, drain, and put into saucepan with 3 tablespoons melted Crisco, few drops lemon juice, sprinkling of red pepper and salt. Let get thoroughly hot, take up, and serve on slices of fried bread.
September 21
Fried Cod Steaks
Sweet Potatoes Boiled Onions
Cucumber Salad
Walnut Pudding
*Feather Cake
Coffee
*Feather Cake—Cream 1/2 cup Crisco with 1/2 cup sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 2 eggs beaten with 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, 1 cup milk, 2-1/2 cups flour, and 2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder. Beat 2 minutes and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin. Bake in moderate oven for 3/4 of an hour.
September 22
Cream of Barley Soup
*Shepherd’s Pie
Broiled Tomatoes
Cucumber Salad with Red Peppers
Wine Jelly
Coffee
*Shepherd’s Pie—Chop 1 pound cooked meat, mix in 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs, 1 chopped onion, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 cup gravy, salt and pepper to taste, 2 tablespoons Crisco, half teaspoon powdered herbs, and 1 tablespoon tomato catsup. Turn into fireproof dish and cover with thick layer seasoned mashed potatoes. Brush over with beaten egg and dot with pieces of Crisco. Bake 20 minutes.
September 23
*Mock Duck, Rice Stuffing
Buttered Beets Succotash
Lettuce Salad
Grape Sherbet
Coffee
*Mock Duck—1 cup chopped celery, 2 cups breadcrumbs, 2 cups chopped black walnut meats, 2 cups boiled rice, 6 hard-cooked eggs, 3 raw eggs, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 saltspoon pepper, and 2 tablespoons Crisco.
Cook crumbs with 1 pint water for 5 minutes; add celery, hard-cooked eggs, chopped; remove from fire, add Crisco, nuts, rice and seasonings. Mix well with raw eggs, slightly beaten. Form into shape of duck, brush over with melted Crisco and bake 1 hour. Serve with apple sauce.
September 24
Macaroni Soup
Fried Scallops
Tournedos, a la Bordelaise
Mashed Potatoes Baked Tomatoes
*Cold Slaw
Queen Mab Pudding
Coffee
*Cold Slaw—Cut 2 cabbages very fine and put it in salad bowl. Boil 2 tablespoons vinegar. Beat up 2 eggs, add 1/2 cup sour cream, 2 tablespoons Crisco and add them to boiled vinegar. Stir over fire till boiling, add 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, pour over cabbage, and it is ready to serve when very cold.
September 25
Broiled Butterfish
German Fried Potatoes
Cucumber Salad Cheese Balls
*Bread Pudding with Cherries
Coffee
*Bread Pudding with Cherries—Soak 1/2 pound bread in cold water till soft. Press out water and beat out any lumps with fork. Add 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 1/4 pound glace cherries and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Mix well, and add 1 well-beaten egg and 3 tablespoons milk. Put into Criscoed basin and cover with Criscoed paper, and steam for 1-1/2 hours.
September 26
Veal Cutlets Sliced Lemon
Baked Cucumbers Lyonnaise Potatoes
Red Pepper Salad
*Amber Pudding
Coffee
*Amber Pudding—Peel, core, and quarter 8 apples. Put 3 tablespoons Crisco in a pan, when warm add apples, 3 tablespoons sugar, grated rind 1 lemon, and stew slowly till soft, then rub through a sieve. Add yolks of 3 eggs, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Roll out Crisco pastry thinly, cut off a strip and press it on to the edge of a wet pudding dish. Put apple mixture into dish and bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven. Beat up whites of eggs with 1/2 teaspoon salt, to stiff froth, add 2 teaspoons sugar and 2 drops vanilla. Heap this meringue all over apple mixture. Dust with sugar and place here and there a glace cherry. Replace in oven to brown slightly.
September 27
Pot Roast of Beef, Gravy
Parsnips Boiled Potatoes
Stuffed Cucumber Salad
*Conservative Pudding
Coffee
*Conservative Pudding—The weight of 3 eggs in Crisco, sugar, and flour. Beat Crisco and sugar to a cream, add flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and mix slowly with eggs. Add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract and mix all well. Ornament a Criscoed mold with raisins, pour in mixture, steam 2 hours and serve hot with milk.
September 28
Pea Soup
Boiled Tripe, Cream Sauce
Stewed Celery Mashed Potatoes
Beet Salad
Meringues with Sliced Peaches
*Almond Fingers
Coffee
*Almond Fingers—2 cups flour, 1/2 cup Crisco, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder. Rub Crisco into flour, add sugar and baking powder. Make into stiff paste with egg. Roll out and cut into fingers. Chop 1 cup almonds and mix with 1/2 cup sifted sugar, and white of 1 egg. Spread on fingers and bake quickly a light brown color.
September 29
*Pilau of Fowl
Glazed Carrots Potatoes au Gratin
Lettuce and Nasturtium Salad
Vanilla Eclairs
Coffee
*Pilau of Fowl—Truss fowl for boiling, place in pan with 3 cups stock or water and simmer 30 minutes. Wash and dry 1 cup rice. Melt 2 tablespoons Crisco and fry 1 chopped onion to golden brown in it; remove onion to plate, add 2 extra tablespoons Crisco and fry rice and 1/4 cup blanched almonds till yellow, add onion, 2 tablespoons seeded raisins, with salt and paprika to taste. Tie in piece of muslin 3 cloves, 6 whole white peppers, 1 bay leaf, and 1 inch cinnamon stick and add them. Make hole in center of rice, lay fowl in it, pour in 1 cup of the stock, let simmer until fowl and rice are cooked, adding more stock as rice swells. Turn fowl over during cooking. Serve fowl with rice around it.
September 30
Raw Oysters
Steamed Fish, Lemon Sauce
Potatoes Stuffed Tomatoes
Radish and Lettuce Salad
*Hot Cheese Sandwiches
Vanilla Cream Puffs
Coffee
*Hot Cheese Sandwiches—Melt 1/4 pound cheese with 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, few grains red pepper, and 1 teaspoon mustard; moisten with a little vinegar and spread between thin slices of white bread. Cut into neat rounds.
October 1
Veal Cutlets
Rice Croquettes Lima Beans
Cabbage and Apple Salad
*Nut Pudding
Coffee
*Nut Pudding—1 cup soft breadcrumbs, 2 cups scalded milk, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 egg yolks, 3/4 cup sugar, juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, 2 egg whites beaten until stiff, and 2 squares chocolate, melted. Mix breadcrumbs, milk, Crisco, nuts, salt, egg yolks, sugar, chocolate, juice and rind of lemon. When well blended, cut and fold in whites of eggs; pour into Criscoed individual molds, and bake 20 to 30 minutes. Serve hot with cream.
Vegetarian
October 2
Tomato Bisque Crackers
Baked Sweet Potatoes Baked Beans
Corn Fritters
Lettuce, French Dressing
*Orange Pie
Coffee
*Orange Pie—Line pie tin with Crisco pastry. Beat yolks of 3 eggs with 1 cup sugar till light; add 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 2/3 cup milk, grated rind and strained juice of 1 orange. Place in double boiler and stir till it thickens, then pour on to crust and bake 30 minutes. Cover top with meringue made with whites of eggs and sweetened with 3 tablespoons sugar and flavored with 1 teaspoon orange extract. Place in oven to brown.
Vegetarian
October 3
Cream of Lettuce Soup
*Vegetable Souffle
Baked Potatoes Boiled Green Peppers
Stuffed Egg Salad
Apple Tapioca
Coffee
*Vegetable Souffle—Blend 3 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour, add 1 cup milk, stir till boiling, add 1/2 cup grated cheese, yolks of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons chopped parsley, seasoning of salt, pepper, and red pepper, and cook till it thickens.
Remove from fire and fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Put some pieces of boiled cauliflower into Criscoed mold, then slices of seasoned tomatoes. Pour in mixture, sprinkle on few crumbs and bake till firm. Garnish with watercress and serve immediately.
Vegetarian
October 4
Almond Soup
*Nut Loaf, Cranberry Jelly
Lima Beans Carameled Sweet Potatoes
Onion Souffle
Butterscotch Pie
Orange Ice
Coffee
*Nut Loaf—Mix together 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 cup chopped English walnuts and almonds, 1 cup crumbs, 1/2 teaspoon salt, dash pepper, 1 large ground onion, 3 tablespoons flour, 2 well-beaten eggs and 1 cup milk. Pour into Criscoed pudding dish and bake 30 minutes.
Vegetarian
October 5
Baked Chestnuts
Galantine of Lentils
Escalloped Tomatoes
Fruit Salad
*Apple Charlotte
Coffee
*Apple Charlotte—Cut bread into slices 1/4 inch thick; then into strips 1-1/2 inches wide, and as long as the height of mold to be used; cut 1 piece to fit top of mold, then divide it into 5 or 6 pieces. Crisco mold; dip slices of bread in melted Crisco, and arrange them on bottom and around sides of mold, fitting closely together or overlapping. Fill center entirely full with apple sauce made of tart apples stewed until tender, seasoned with Crisco and sugar. A little apricot jam can be put in center if desired; chopped almonds also may be added. Cover top with bread, and bake in hot oven 30 minutes. The bread should be an amber color like toast. Turn it carefully on to flat dish. Serve with any sauce that you like.
Vegetarian
October 6
Creole Chowder
Stuffed Potatoes
Spaghetti with Cheese
Lentil and Nut Salad
*Orange Puffs, Orange Sauce
Coffee
*Orange Puffs—Beat 1/2 cup Crisco with 2/3 cup sugar, add 2 well-beaten eggs, 3/4 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1 teaspoon orange extract. Bake in Criscoed and floured gem pans and serve hot with orange sauce.
For sauce. Mix 1/2 cup sugar with 2 tablespoons cornstarch, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Add 1 cup boiling water and boil eight minutes, add grated rinds and strained juice 2 oranges and 3 tablespoons Crisco.
October 7
Carrot Soup
*Indian Dry Curry
Boiled Rice Spinach
Cabbage Salad
Pineapple, Bavarian Cream
Coffee
*Indian Dry Curry—2 pounds beef, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1 onion, 2 tablespoons curry powder, 2 chopped gherkins, 1 dessertspoon chutney, 1 saltspoon salt, juice of 1/2 a lemon, and 1/2 pint thin brown sauce or gravy.
Melt Crisco in stewpan, put in onion (sliced), and fry for a few minutes. Then add meat, cut in small pieces, and fry all together for about 10 minutes. Now sprinkle curry over meat, and stir contents of saucepan over fire for another 5 minutes. The gherkins, chutney and salt must now be added; also sauce or gravy; and stewpan must be set over very slow fire about 1 hour; by that time meat should be quite tender. Add lemon juice, and dish up. Serve with plainly boiled rice.
October 8
*Fried Chicken, Swiss Style
Sweet Corn Croquettes
Broiled Tomatoes
Crab Salad
Crackers Cheese
Coffee
*Fried Chicken, Swiss Style—Cook chicken in salted water till it is fairly tender. Take up, let get cool, and cut into neat pieces for frying. Sprinkle these pieces with salt, pepper, and onion juice, then moisten them well with melted Crisco. Let them stand 1 or 2 hours to absorb flavoring of dressing, then dip in batter and drop into hot Crisco to cook till brown. This batter make of 1 cup flour, as much milk as is needed to have it stiff, 2 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and 1/2 cup brandy. This batter will be better for standing, after it is mixed, for 1 hour.
October 9
Roast Shoulder of Veal
Roasted Potatoes Lima Beans
Pickled Plums
Romaine Salad
*Raisin Batter Pudding
Coffee
*Raisin Batter Pudding—Beat up 3 eggs, sift in 2 cups flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt, add 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 cup cream, and beat for 8 minutes; then add 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1 teaspoon orange extract. Pour into a Criscoed casserole, sprinkle over 8 tablespoons sultana raisins, and bake in moderate oven 1 hour. Serve with maple syrup.
October 10
*Cream of Corn, a la Creole
Scalloped Fish and Oysters
Potato Croquettes
Cauliflower and Beet Salad
Squash Pie Coffee
*Cream of Corn, a la Creole—Put 1 can of corn through meat chopper, add 1 large onion, sliced, 1 sprig of parsley, and 1 pint of water. Cook altogether 20 minutes, being careful not to let it scorch, then press through a fine sieve, extracting all pulp possible. Melt 2 tablespoons Crisco, add an equal amount of sifted flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and dash of pepper. Cook to smooth paste; then add, very gradually, 1 quart scalded milk. When thick and smooth, add corn pulp and juice and 1 tablespoon sugar. Add salt to taste, and just before serving add 1 cup scalded cream or very rich milk.
October 11
Roast Veal
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Green Beans
Stuffed Beet Salad
Cheese Crackers
*Dutch Apple Cake
Coffee
*Dutch Apple Cake—2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, and 3 tablespoons melted Crisco. Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add beaten yolks, Crisco and milk. Beat well; cut and fold in stiffly beaten whites. Spread mixture 1/2 inch thick on Criscoed pans. Lay apples cut into eighths in 2 rows on top of dough. Sprinkle with sugar; bake in hot oven 30 minutes. Serve with lemon sauce.
October 12
Cream of Carrot Soup
Roast Pig, Apple Sauce
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Creamed Celery
Kumquat Salad
*Cheese Croutons
Coffee
*Cheese Croutons—Cut crusts from thin slices of stale bread and spread lightly with creamed Crisco, then with a layer of cream cheese seasoned with salt and pepper. Cover with a second slice of bread and cut into fingers 1 inch wide, using a sharp knife. Place in a shallow pan and brown in a hot oven.
October 13
*Peanut Puree
Roast Pig Reheated in Casserole
Squash
Baked Potatoes
Red Cabbage Salad
Sultana Roll
Coffee
*Peanut Puree—1 cup peanut butter, 1 quart milk, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 teaspoon onion juice, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 1 bay leaf, 1 blade mace, pepper and salt to taste. Put milk, Crisco, peanut butter, onion juice, pepper, bay leaf and blade mace in double boiler; stir and cook until hot. Moisten cornstarch in little cold milk and add it to hot milk; stir until smooth and thick; strain through sieve. Add salt and serve at once with croutons.
October 14
Grilled Halibut with Parmesan
Roast Mutton, Currant Jelly Sauce
Creamed Turnips
Browned Sweet Potatoes
American Salad
Apple and Prune Pie
Coffee
*Grilled Halibut with Parmesan—Take desired number of fillets of halibut and grill on both sides until nicely browned. Take from broiler, spread with Crisco, cover with grated Parmesan cheese, season with salt and dash of paprika on each slice, and set in hot oven until cheese is well browned and melted. Serve with lemon slices and potato balls tossed in melted Crisco containing chopped parsley.
October 15
Broiled Smelts
Roasted Squabs
Oyster Plant, Italian Style
Oriental Salad
Sweet Cider Jelly
Coffee
*Broiled Smelts—Select 12 large smelts, clean well and split. Chop 12 olives, 1/2 green pepper with seeds removed, 2 sprigs parsley, add 1/2 tablespoon Crisco. Spread paste inside each smelt. Close fish together, sprinkle with salt, moisten with melted Crisco and broil over clear fire.
October 16
Poëled Fowl, Cranberry Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Cauliflower au Gratin
Tomato and Green Pepper Salad
Macaroon Custard *Queen Cakes
Coffee
*Queen Cakes—1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 3 eggs, 1/4 cup currants, 1/4 cup glace cherries (cut in dice), grate nutmeg, thin rind 1/2 lemon (chopped finely), juice 1 lemon, 1 cup flour, 4 tablespoons rice flour, and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Put Crisco and sugar in basin and work with wooden spoon to cream, add salt and eggs 1 by 1, and beat mixture thoroughly.
Mix in separate basin fruit, lemon rind, flours and baking powder. Stir this into other mixture, add nutmeg, and strained lemon juice. Stir mixture several minutes longer. Have ready Criscoed gem tins, three-parts fill them with mixture and bake in fairly hot oven from 20 to 25 minutes. Unmold cakes and place on sieve to cool. Cakes may be coated with chocolate or boiled frosting.
October 17
Baked Veal Cutlet
Potatoes Scalloped with Green Peppers
Succotash
Spinach Salad
*Apple Pie, Whipped Cream
Coffee
*Apple Pie—Core, peel and cut in halves 8 tart apples. Line pie plate with Crisco pastry, and fill with apples; sprinkle over 3 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon, or nutmeg and cloves, and 2 tablespoons Crisco in small pieces. Bake till apples are soft, then, at the last moment cover with 1 cupful whipped cream, and send to table.
October 18
Rice Soup
Fish Pudding
Cauliflower
*Savory Potatoes
Cheese Custard
Apple Dumplings
Coffee
*Savory Potatoes—Pare 10 large potatoes and slice them, add 1 chopped onion. Crisco pudding dish, put in potatoes and onion, sprinkle with salt and pepper, 1 teaspoon sage and dot with Crisco, add 1 cup water and bake for 1-1/4 hours.
October 19
Lamb Cutlets, Morland Style
*Artichokes
Riced Potatoes
Celery Salad
Crackers Cheese
Peach Melba
Coffee
*Artichokes—Select some small artichokes, trim them and put in earthenware stewpan containing some hot Crisco. Season with salt and pepper and cover stewpan, leaving to cook for about 10 minutes. Then add for each 1 dozen artichokes, 1 pint canned peas and 1 shredded lettuce. Cover once more and cook gently without moistening, the moisture of lettuce and peas sufficing.
October 20
Canteloupes
Young Chickens, Roasted
Stuffed Tomatoes
*Grilled Potatoes
Apple and Nut Salad
Fruit Cup
Coffee
*Grilled Potatoes—Cut cold boiled potatoes into 1/2 inch slices lengthways, dip in melted Crisco, sprinkle with chopped olives, pour over a little melted Crisco and send to table.
October 21
*Giblet Soup
Spiced Shoulder of Mutton
Brussels Sprouts Mashed Potatoes
Prune Mold Coffee
*Giblet Soup—Scald and cut up 1 set of giblets—these include the neck, gizzard, liver, and heart of any fowl, put them into a pan with 1 quart stock or water, 1 whole onion stuck with cloves, and the grated rind of 1/2 a lemon. Simmer for 3 hours and strain. Peel and slice 2 onions and fry them in 3 tablespoons melted Crisco when brown, stir in 1 tablespoon flour and fry it brown, add the stock and stir till boiling, put back the giblets, season with salt and pepper, 1 grated carrot and simmer for 30 minutes.
October 22
*Okra Soup
Curried Mutton
Rice Stewed Celery with Egg Sauce
Asparagus Salad Pear Fritters
Coffee
*Okra Soup—Cut into pieces 2-1/2 cups okra, slice 1 onion, slice 1 carrot, slice 1 turnip, three tomatoes skinned and sliced, 1 cup beans, 1 can peas, dice 2 stalks celery and chop 3 tablespoons parsley.
Melt 3 tablespoons Crisco in a saucepan, add onion, carrot, turnip, beans, and cook 15 minutes, add okra, celery, and 5 cups water, cook slowly for 1-1/2 hours, add seasoning of salt, pepper and red pepper, tomatoes, corn and peas and simmer for 40 minutes. If too thick, thin with stock. Serve hot.
October 23
*Haricot of Veal
Baked Tomatoes Russian Fish Salad
Date Souffle
Coffee
*Haricot of Veal—Cut 2 pounds fillet of veal into small pieces of uniform shape and size, and fry till a light brown in hot Crisco. Add 2 tablespoons flour blended with 2 tablespoons melted Crisco. Season with salt and pepper, cover with 1 pint stock or water, and let simmer, covered closely, till veal is done and till stock is well cooked away. Take up, arrange in circle on dish, and in center put Lima beans, boiled and reheated in plenty of Crisco.
October 24
Roast Pork, Apple Sauce
Browned Parsnips
Glazed Sweet Potatoes Porcupine Salad
*Black Cap Pudding Coffee
*Black Cap Pudding—Mix 1/4 cup currants, with 3 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1-1/4 cups flour sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 well beaten eggs, and 2 cupfuls milk, and beat well together. Crisco a pudding mold, sprinkle in some currants, pour in mixture, cover with greased paper and steam for 2 hours. Serve with milk.
October 25
Wild Duck with Mushrooms
*Stuffed Egg Plant
Apple and Cucumber Salad
Almond Pudding
Hot Cheese Denises Coffee
*Stuffed Egg Plant—Parboil 1 egg plant and cut in halves. Scrape out some of the inside and chop some cold cooked meat with 2 tomatoes, 1 onion, and 2 green peppers. Then mix with 1 beaten egg, 1 tablespoon Crisco, and salt and pepper to taste. Fill halves with this mixture; sprinkle with breadcrumbs and tiny bits of Crisco, put in baking dish with little stock or water, and bake.
October 26
Mock Pigeon, Espagnole Sauce
*Scalloped Pumpkin and Rice
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Combination Salad
Honeycomb Pudding
Coffee
*Scalloped Pumpkin and Rice—In Criscoed fireproof dish arrange layer of stewed pumpkin, cover with layer of boiled rice, then layer of white sauce, proceed until ingredients are used. Cover with crumbs, dot with Crisco and bake until browned on top. To cook pumpkin, cut in two, scrape out the interior, pare and cut into small pieces. Steam and cook till tender. Rub through a sieve, add 2 tablespoons Crisco, season with salt, pepper, and paprika.
October 27
Noisettes of Mutton
String Beans Latticed Potatoes
French Salad *Chestnut Dainty
Coffee
*Chestnut Dainty—Boil 1 pound of Italian chestnuts 15 minutes; then remove shells and skins, and put back to boil until tender, with 1 cup of milk and 1 teaspoon Crisco, on the back part of range until soft enough to rub through a sieve. Crisco a mold well and line thickly with pulp, then add layer of apple sauce colored pink with currant jelly; then another layer chestnuts and again a layer of apple sauce. Over this squeeze some lemon juice, and bake in quick oven. Turn, out on platter, and surround with whipped cream, colored with little currant jelly.
October 28
Shrimp Canapes
Roast Mutton, Onion Sauce
*Celeriac Sweet Potatoes
Corn Salad Pumpkin Pie
Coffee
*Celeriac—Well wash and peel the celeriac. Cut them in quarters and boil in boiling salted water until quite tender. Drain well and arrange in a hot dish and pour egg sauce over them.
For egg sauce, blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour, add 1 cup milk and stir till boiling, add seasoning of salt and pepper and boil for 8 minutes, stirring all the time, then add 2 hard-cooked eggs rubbed through a sieve, mix well and serve.
October 29
Cream of Spinach Soup
Baked White Fish, Caper Sauce
Rice Croquettes String Beans
Celery Boiled Dressing
*Chestnut Tartlets Coffee
*Chestnut Tartlets—Boil and mash 1 pint chestnuts, add 1/4 cup each creamed Crisco and cream, 1 beaten yolk, 1/4 cup powdered sugar, little salt, and 1 1/2 cups milk. Cover inverted small tartlet tins with Crisco pastry, bake, and fill with mixture, and bake again.
October 30
Brussel Sprout Soup
*Rabbit, a la Marengo
Parisian Potatoes Braised Celery
Lettuce, French Dressing
Prune and Rice Meringues
Coffee
*Rabbit, a la Marengo—Cut up 1 rabbit into neat joints. Melt 1/2 cup Crisco in saucepan, put in rabbit and fry it quickly till browned, add 2 chopped small onions, and fry for a few minutes, pour off any fat into another pan, add to rabbit 1 cup brown sauce, 2 chopped tomatoes, 8 button mushrooms, seasoning of salt, pepper, and paprika. Put on lid and simmer gently 1 hour. Arrange rabbit on hot dish, put mushrooms in heaps round with thin lemon slices, season gravy and pour it over.
Hallowe’en
October 31
Clear Soup
*Braised Duck with Turnips
Riced Potatoes Spinach
Orange Salad
Goblin Cakes Nuts Candies
Custard Souffle, Vanilla Sauce
Coffee
*Braised Duck with Turnips—Wash and cut 2 carrots, 2 stalks celery, 2 turnips, 1 onion in large pieces, put them in pan on these place 4 slices ham, then 1 duck trussed for roasting, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water, dust nutmeg, pepper, and salt. Lay Criscoed paper over top, then lid, and simmer 1 hour or till duck is tender.
Melt 3 tablespoons Crisco in a pan, add 1 dozen small peeled turnips and toss till they are golden color. When duck is cooked, remove strings and skewers. Put on hot dish, and arrange turnips round. Season gravy and strain over duck.
November 1
Irish Stew Baked Rice Lima Beans
Macedoine Salad
*Chocolate Cream Pie Coffee
*Chocolate Cream Pie—2 squares chocolate, 1/4 cup cornstarch, 1 teaspoon Crisco, 1 pint milk, 2 egg whites, 1/2 cup sugar, 3 egg yolks, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1 tablespoon vanilla. Melt chocolate, add sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks, salt, Crisco and milk. Cook in double boiler till thick, stirring constantly; flavor with vanilla. Pour into a baked pie crust shell, cover with meringue made by beating egg whites till stiff and adding 2 tablespoons sugar; brown in oven and serve cold.
November 2
Baked Rolled Fillets of Fish, Bechamel
Sauce
Cucumber Salad Yeast Rolls
*Roast Guinea Chickens, Guava Jelly
Rice Croquettes Scalloped Egg Plant
Pear and Celery Salad
Lemon Sherbet Sponge Cake
Coffee
*Roast Guinea Chickens—Put 2 tablespoons Crisco in each of the birds, this prevents them getting dry. Slit 2 slices bacon once or twice then tie over breasts of birds, which should be trussed for roasting. Wrap them in Criscoed paper and bake in a quick oven for 30 minutes, baste well and frequently; for the last 8 minutes remove paper and bacon; sprinkle with a little flour, salt and pepper, baste well, and let brown. Serve on hot dish, garnished with rolls of bacon. Hand with it gravy, bread sauce, and guava jelly.
November 3
Celery Soup
*Casserole of Lamb
Sweet Pickle
Creamed Onions
Mashed Potatoes
Cabbage Salad
Caramel Ice Cream
Coffee
*Casserole of Lamb—2-1/2 pounds loin of lamb, 1/2 cup rice, 2 cups good gravy, 1 blade mace, 1/2 cup Crisco, 2 egg yolks, salt and pepper, and a little grated nutmeg. Half roast loin of lamb, and cut it into steaks. Boil rice in boiling salted water for 10 minutes, drain it, and add to it gravy with nutmeg and mace; cook slowly until rice begins to thicken, remove it from fire, stir in Crisco, and when melted add yolks of eggs well beaten; Crisco a casserole well, sprinkle steaks with salt and pepper, dip them in melted Crisco, and lay them in Criscoed dish; pour over gravy that comes from them, add rice and simmer for 1/2 an hour.
November 4
Tomato Soup
*Steamed Cod, Parsley Sauce
Roast Ribs of Beef, Horseradish Sauce
Colcannon Potatoes
Charlotte Russe
Coffee
*Steamed Cod—Wipe 4 cod steaks dry, and sprinkle with salt, pepper, lemon juice, and melted Crisco on under side; lay on Criscoed platter, put another Criscoed platter over; set on top of saucepan of boiling water, and steam 3/4 of an hour, or until fish begins to leave bones. Serve with parsley sauce.
For parsley sauce. Blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour in a pan over the fire, add 1 cup milk and stir till boiling, season with salt, pepper and red pepper, and stir and cook for 10 minutes, then add 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, and serve.
November 5
Ham Timbales, Cheese Sauce
Paprika Potatoes Spinach
Apple and Celery Salad
*Cocoanut Pudding
Coffee
*Cocoanut Pudding—1 cup scalded milk, 3/4 cup soft breadcrumbs, 1/2 cup grated cocoanut, 2 egg yolks, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1/2 cup cocoa, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 2 egg whites, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Soak bread in scalded milk until soft. Add cocoanut, sugar, cocoa, Crisco, lemon juice and salt; beat well; add yolks eggs beaten, cut and fold in stiffly-beaten whites. Turn into Criscoed pudding dish and bake in moderate oven 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold.
November 6
Roast Duck
Egg Plant Croquettes
Peppers Stuffed with Rice
Canned Pears on Lettuce, with
Mayonnaise
*Brown Bread Souffle
Coffee
*Brown Bread Souffle—Melt 2-1/2 tablespoons Crisco, add 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup cream, 2 cups brown breadcrumbs, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and grated rind 1 lemon; let boil 2 minutes, stirring well, remove pan from fire, add 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, and when cool, beaten yolks 4 eggs. Beat egg whites stiffly and add them lightly. Pour mixture into Criscoed tin, cover with Criscoed paper and steam gently 1 hour. Serve hot with sweet sauce.
November 7
Corned Beef
*Cabbage, a la Creme Potatoes
Olive Salad
Hasty Pudding
Cocoanut Cakes
Coffee
*Cabbage, a la Creme—Trim and wash 1 cabbage, then boil in boiling salted water, adding 1 peeled onion stuck with 2 cloves. When tender take out onion and drain cabbage. Either chop finely or rub through a sieve. Melt 1 tablespoon Crisco in pan, put in cabbage, stir it well, add 3 tablespoons cream gradually, salt and pepper to taste.
When thoroughly hot, pile in hot dish, and garnish with sippets fried bread or toast.
November 8
Cold Corned Beef
Baked Potatoes
Pickled Beets
Cauliflower Salad
Cheese Wafers
*Golden Pudding
Coffee
*Golden Pudding—Line and ornament small pudding dish with puff pastry. Beat 2 tablespoons Crisco with 4 tablespoons sugar till creamy, add 4 tablespoons cakecrumbs, yolks 3 eggs beaten with 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, grated rind and strained juice 2 oranges. Pour into pudding dish, and bake 40 minutes. Whip up egg whites to stiff froth, stir in 3 tablespoons sugar, few drops yellow color, 1 teaspoon orange extract, and pile on top of pudding. Put back in oven to brown.
November 9
Broiled Steak
Mashed Potatoes
Spinach with Butter Sauce
Escarole Salad
*Cheese Fondue
Coffee
*Cheese Fondue—2 tablespoons flour, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 2 eggs, salt, pepper and red pepper, and 1/2 cup milk. Melt Crisco, add flour, then milk gradually. Stir till they boil, cool a little, add cheese and yolks and seasonings. Fold in whites stiffly beaten. Pour into a Criscoed souffle tin. Bake 20 minutes in hot oven. Fold a napkin round and serve hot.
November 10
Haddock au Gratin
*Venison Cutlets
Hashed Browned Potatoes
Oyster and Celery Salad
Marrons, a la Creme
Coffee
*Venison Cutlets—Trim venison cutlets in usual way. Put 4 tablespoons Crisco in saute pan and when hot put in cutlets, seasoned with salt and pepper, fry till brown. Then take out cutlets, put into pan 1/2 tumbler currant jelly to melt, add 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1/2 teaspoon salt, and serve separately with cutlets.
November 11
*Baked Scallops in Shells
Chicken Souffle
Fried Celery Latticed Potatoes
Watercress and Green Pepper Salad
Meringues Glaces Coffee
*Baked Scallops in Shells—Take desired quantity of fresh scallops—1 pint or 1 quart, and cook them in little white wine until done. Drain, cut in quarters, and add to them 1/2 their quantity of minced onion fried until tender, but not brown. Moisten with white sauce, season with red pepper and salt, heap high in scallop shells, cover with breadcrumbs moistened in melted Crisco, and brown in hot oven. Garnish with lemon slices and parsley.
November 12
Hamburg Steak Balls
Mashed Potatoes Fried Parsnips
Apple and Celery Salad
*Baked Indian Pudding
Coffee
*Baked Indian Pudding—3-1/2 quarts milk, 3 tablespoons cornmeal, 1/2 pint molasses, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1/2 teaspoon ginger. Boil 1 quart milk; add to it molasses, Crisco, salt, and spices, and lastly meal stirred smooth with little cold milk; scald whole together, and turn into a well Criscoed baking dish.
When it begins to crust over, stir it all up from bottom, and add 1 pint of cold milk. Repeat process every 1/2 hour, or oftener if pudding browns too fast, till 5 pints are used; then let it bake till done—6 hours in all. Serve hot with sauce of grated or granulated maple sugar stirred into rich cream, and kept very cold till needed.
November 13
Lamb Cutlets
Potatoes *Curried Lima Beans
Tomato Salad
Cheese Fritters
Benedictine Jelly
Coffee
*Curried Lima Beans—Chop 1 onion finely and fry it for a few minutes in 2 tablespoons Crisco, add 1 tablespoon curry powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon flour, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and 1 cup water, allow to cook slowly for 20 minutes, then add 1-1/2 cups cooked lima beans, mix well and serve hot.
November 14
Cream of Tomato Soup
*Nut Roast, Piquante Sauce
Sweet Potatoes Fried Egg Plant
Lettuce Salad
Baked Quinces Gingerbread
Coffee
*Nut Roast—1/2 cup lentils, 1/2 cup shelled roasted peanuts, 1/2 tablespoon Crisco, 1/2 cup toasted breadcrumbs, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 saltspoon pepper and milk. Soak lentils over night; in morning drain, cover with fresh water and bring to boil. Drain again; and put in fresh water and cook until tender. Drain once more; throw away water and press lentils through colander. Add nuts, either ground or chopped, Crisco, breadcrumbs, seasoning and milk sufficient to make mixture consistency of mush. Put into Criscoed baking dish; bake in moderate oven 1 hour; turn out on heated platter; garnish with parsley or watercress and serve with Piquante sauce.
Vegetarian
November 15
Sweet Potatoes au Gratin
Corn, a la Southern
*Raisin and Nut Bread
Apples Stuffed with Celery
Caramel Custards Coffee
*Raisin and Nut Bread—1 egg, 3/4 cup sugar, 1-1/2 cups milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup raisins, and 1 cup chopped walnut meats. Beat egg with sugar; add sifted flour, baking powder and salt alternately with milk; last add Crisco, melted, and walnuts. Bake in deep pan in slow oven 45 minutes.
November 16
Cream of Corn Soup
Roast Turkey, Giblet Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Creamed Onions
Melon Mangoes Cheese Fingers
*Apple Strudel Coffee
*Apple Strudel—Sift 2 cups flour with 1/2 teaspoonful salt and 1 teaspoon sugar. Add gradually 1 cup lukewarm water and knead until dough does not stick to hands. Roll dough as thin as possible on floured board. Place clean tablecloth on table, put rolled out dough on it and pull carefully with fingers to get thin as possible. Mix 4 cups chopped apples with 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 cup seeded raisins, and 1 cup currants. Spread over dough, and spread little Crisco over apples. Take cloth in both hands, and roll strudel over and over like roly poly. Roll strudel into Criscoed baking pan and bake in hot oven until brown.
November 17
*Stewed Rabbit
Glace Potatoes Baked Onions
Jellied Baked Beans
Cranberry Bavarian Cream
Coffee
*Stewed Rabbit—Melt 4 tablespoons Crisco in saucepan; joint rabbit and fry quickly in Crisco, then fry 1 sliced onion until browned, stir in 2 tablespoons flour and brown flour; now add gradually 2 cups water and stir till smooth, when boiling add salt, pepper, and paprika to taste, and 2 tablespoons chopped parsley; simmer slowly 1-1/2 hours. Dish and strain over gravy.
November 18
Julienne Soup Toast Points
Stuffed Hearts Pickles
Browned Potatoes Baked Squash
*Almond and Apple Pudding
Coffee
*Almond and Apple Pudding—Pare and core 6 apples, chop into small pieces and sprinkle with 1/2 cup sugar. Have ready 2 cups breadcrumbs, soaked in 1/2 cup milk to which 1 tablespoon melted Crisco has been added. Beat 2 eggs till light, add to them grating of nutmeg, a pinch of cinnamon and good pinch of salt. Mix apple with soaked breadcrumbs, then eggs, and lastly 2 dozens blanched almonds chopped fine. Thin with 1/2 cup milk, then pour into Criscoed tin and bake. Serve with sweetened cream.
November 19
Spare Ribs Stew
Rice Croquettes Waldorf Salad
Cheese Biscuits
*Cranberry Pudding Coffee
*Cranberry Pudding—Cream 1/2 cup Crisco with 1 cup sugar, add 3 eggs well beaten, 1/2 cup milk, 3-1/2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, then stir in 1-1/2 cups cranberries, turn into Criscoed mold, cover with greased paper and steam 4 hours. Serve with milk.
November 20
Oyster Croquettes
*Stuffed Lamb Chops Chestnut Puree
Mashed Potatoes Egg Plant Fritters
Kumquat and Endive Salad
Stewed Figs Coffee
*Stuffed Lamb Chops—Wipe 6 French chops, cut 1-1/2 inches thick. Split meat in halves, cutting to bone. Cook 2-1/2 tablespoons Crisco and 1 tablespoon chopped onion 5 minutes; remove onion, add 1/2 cup chopped mushroom, and cook 5 minutes; add 2 tablespoons flour, 3 tablespoons stock, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and few grains red pepper. Spread mixture between layers of chops, press together lightly, wrap in Criscoed paper cases, and broil 10 minutes. Serve with chestnut puree.
November 21
Baked Boned White Fish
Bread Dressing, Drawn Butter Sauce
Stewed Tomatoes
Mashed Potatoes
*Date Pudding
Coffee
*Date Pudding—Clean, stone, and chop 1 pound dates, add 1 cup English walnut meats, broken in pieces, 1/2 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Beat up 4 egg whites to stiff froth, then fold in 1/2 cup sugar, add beaten egg yolks, 1/2 tablespoon melted Crisco and date mixture. Turn into Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven 30 minutes. Cut in squares and serve cold with whipped cream.
November 22
*Fried Smelts, Sauce Tartare
Roast Chicken
Creamed Chestnuts
Canned Stringless Beans
Orange and Romaine Salad
Mint Ice Cream
Coffee
*Fried Smelts—Clean, trim the fins, and remove gills; wipe very dry, roll in flour, brush over with beaten egg, roll in crumbs and fry in hot Crisco until crisp; drain on soft paper, dish on lace paper in a heap, and garnish with fried parsley, serve with sauce tartare. Smelts make a nice garnish for many fish dishes, the tails drawn through the eyes, dressed as above, and fried.
November 23
Bisque of Clams
Boiled Fish, Hollandaise Sauce
Potatoes Baked Parsnips
Celery Salad
*Italian Fritters
Coffee
*Italian Fritters—1 egg, 1 cup milk, grated rind 1 lemon, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 5 slices stale cake, 1/2 teaspoon powdered cinnamon, sugar and few grains salt. Cake should be about a 1/4 of an inch thick, not less. Cut out into oval or round shapes with cutter. Beat egg, mix with milk, lemon rind, salt, and about 1 teaspoon sugar. Lay slices of cake in this custard until they are soft, but not crumbly; time will depend upon how stale cake is. Heat 1/2 Crisco in frying pan, lift few pieces of cake up carefully and lay them in hot Crisco. Brown 1 side, then turn them over and brown other side also. Add some pieces of Crisco as required. Mix cinnamon with 2 teaspoons sugar and sprinkle some of these over each fritter. Serve with hard sauce.
November 24
Cannelon of Beef
Creamed Cabbage Franconia Potatoes
Cranberry Salad
Cheese Wafers
*Baba with Syrup
Coffee
*Baba with Syrup—Sift 3 cups flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt into a basin, add 1 yeast cake dissolved in 1/2 cup lukewarm milk; make well in center of flour, pour in 5 beaten eggs, mix with the hand for 5 minutes. Put it into Criscoed basin, spread over with 1/2 cup Crisco, cover and put in warm place until it has risen to twice its original size. Knead until elastic, add 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 tablespoons currants, 2 tablespoons sultana raisins, knead again. Turn into large Criscoed mold. It should not be more than half full. Allow to rise to top of tin, then bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes. Turn out and pour syrup over it. To make syrup, boil 2 cups water with 1/4 cup sugar for 10 minutes, then add 2 tablespoons apricot jam and boil 5 minutes. Strain, add 1 wineglass rum and bring to boiling point.
November 25
Quick Beef Soup
Panned Chicken, Brown Sauce
Curried Rice
Creamed Carrots
Tomato Salad
*Baked Macaroni Pudding
Coffee
*Baked Macaroni Pudding—1 pint milk, 4 long sticks macaroni, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons sugar, nutmeg, 1 tablespoon Crisco, and salt to taste.
Bake macaroni into 1/2 inch lengths. Boil milk, shake in macaroni and salt and boil it very slowly for 1/2 an hour, or until quite tender, and keep it well stirred during cooking. Thickly Crisco a pudding dish and beat up egg. Add sugar and Crisco to macaroni, let it cool a little, then pour in egg and mix it well. Grate little nutmeg on top and bake pudding very slowly until top is delicately browned.
November 26
Pea Soup
Boiled Tongue, Raisin Sauce
Rice Balls
Stewed Celery
Tomato and Cress Salad
*Graham Pudding
Coffee
*Graham Pudding—Mix 2 cups graham flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 teaspoon each cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg, 1 cup currants, 1 cup molasses, 1 egg well beaten, 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoons soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water. Pour in Criscoed mold, cover with Criscoed paper and steam 3 hours. Turn out and serve with milk.
November 27
Steak en Casserole
Sweet Potato Croquettes
Boiled Cauliflower
Pear and Grape Salad Cheese Fritters
*Pineapple Souffle
Coffee
*Pineapple Souffle—Cream 1-1/2 tablespoons each Crisco and flour, add 1 cup canned grated pineapple and juice. Cook 5 minutes, remove from fire, add little salt, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 3 beaten egg yolks. Bake in Criscoed dish 20 minutes. Serve with following sauce: Cook 2 tablespoons creamed Crisco in double boiler, add 2 yolks of eggs, 1 at a time, beat, and add 4 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons orange juice, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and 1/2 cup whipped cream. Serve hot.
November 28
Mock Bisque Soup
Mutton Haricot
String Beans
Fried Parsnips
Lettuce and Pepper Salad
*Apples with Red Currant Jelly
Coffee
*Apples with Red Currant Jelly—6 cooking apples, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 egg, cakecrumbs, apricot jam, 6 glace cherries, red currant jelly, Crisco and syrup. Choose apples as much as possible same size, peel and core them carefully, so as not to break them. Put 1 cup syrup into stewpan or baking tin, put in apples and cook over fire or in oven until nearly done. Baste them occasionally with syrup. Let them get cold, then roll them in flour, brush over with beaten egg, toss in sifted cakecrumbs, and fry in hot Crisco a golden brown. Drain on piece of paper, fill centers with apricot jam, cut out some rounds of red currant jelly, place 1 on top of each apple and a glace cherry on that. Dish up and serve hot or cold. An apricot syrup should be sent to table separately with apples.
November 29
Smoked Salmon Toast
*Spiced Venison
Black Currant Jelly
Creamed Turnips
Grilled Sweet Potatoes
Escarole Salad, Cheese Dressing
Peach Gateau
Coffee
*Spiced Venison—Rub a piece of venison with salt, pepper, vinegar, cloves, and allspice; then put into baking pan. Pour over 1 cup melted Crisco, add 2 sliced onions, sprig of thyme, 3 sprigs parsley, juice 1 lemon, and 1/2 pint hot water. Cover and bake in hot oven till tender. Sprinkle with flour, add 1 glassful of sherry wine and allow to brown.
Thanksgiving Dinner
November 30
Bisque of Oyster
Broiled Smelts, Drawn Butter
Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Stewed Celery
Romaine Salad
Roquefort Cheese
*Hot Pumpkin Pie
Orange Ice
Coffee
*Hot Pumpkin Pie—Line pie tin with Crisco Pastry. Mix 2 cups steamed and strained pumpkin, with 2 teaspoons Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves, mace, allspice, and ginger, grated rind of 1 lemon, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup cream, 2 well beaten eggs, and pour into prepared pie plate. Bake till firm in moderate oven. Serve hot. As a change, place on the pumpkin pie as it comes out of the oven a layer of halved marshmallows, replace in the oven and let them brown.
December 1
Oyster Bouillon
*Baked Beefsteak
Fried Beets Baked Potatoes
Grapefruit and Endive Salad
Nougat Ice Cream
Coffee
*Baked Beefsteak—Cut 2 pounds of sirloin, 1/2 inch thick. Mix 1 cup breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1/2 tablespoon chopped onion, 1/2 teaspoon each of salt, pepper, and red pepper, 1/2 teaspoon kitchen bouquet, and moisten with stock. Spread this over steak and roll it up, fastening with skewers or tying, and put on rack in roasting pan. Add 1/2 cup stock, and bake 1/2 hour, basting often. Place on hot platter, and pour around it sauce made from 2 tablespoons Crisco and 3 tablespoons flour blended together, with salt and pepper to taste, and 1-1/2 cups beef stock cooked until boiling, then strained and added to 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.
December 2
Baked Pork Spareribs
Turnips
Mashed Potatoes
Celery and Cranberry Salad
*Squash Pie
Coffee
*Squash Pie—2 cups stewed squash, 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 2/3 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 eggs, and 2 cups milk. Beat eggs until light. Place squash in quart measure, add sugar, Crisco, salt, spice, and then beaten eggs. Stir well and add sufficient milk to make 1 quart of whole mass. Turn into pie tin lined with Crisco pastry and bake slowly for 45 minutes. When done a silver knife when inserted will come out from it clear. Squash pie will become watery if allowed to boil.
December 3
Brown Fricassee of Chicken, Cranberry
Jelly
Sweet Potatoes Boiled Onions
Orange and Pineapple Salad
*Farina Pudding
Coffee
*Farina Pudding—Stir into 3 cups boiling milk 1 cup farina, and cook 10 minutes. Rub together 1 tablespoon Crisco and 2 tablespoons sugar; add yolks of 3 eggs, grated rind of 1 lemon and 25 chopped blanched almonds. Stir this mixture into farina after it is little cooled; lastly add whites of 3 eggs beaten to stiff froth. Steam this pudding in covered mold for 1-1/2 hours. Serve with any sweet pudding sauce.
December 4
Clear Soup with Rice
Corn Peas Mashed Potatoes
Cold Slaw
Plum Pudding, Hard Sauce
*Individual Mince Pies
Cheese Wafers
Coffee
*Individual Mince Pies—Roll out Crisco paste 1/8 inch thick, stamp into rounds and line gem pans, place in each 2 teaspoons of mince meat; roll out more pastry rather thicker than first, stamp into rounds size of top of pans, wet edges and cover pies, brush over with beaten egg, sprinkle with sugar, and bake 20 minutes in hot oven.
For mince meat, put into jar 1 pound chopped apples, 1 pound sultana raisins, 1/4 pound chopped figs, 1/2 pound currants, grated rind, strained juice 3 lemons, 1 cup Crisco, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 pound chopped almonds, grated rind, strained juice 3 oranges, 2 grated nutmegs, 1/2 cup sherry, 1 cup brandy, 1 ounce mixed spice, 1/2 pound each chopped candied orange and lemon peel, and 2 cups brown sugar. Mix well and keep in well sealed jar.
December 5
*Steamed Clams
Roast Ribs of Beef, Currant Jelly
Rice Croquettes Stewed Tomatoes
Apple and Celery Salad
Mince Pie
Coffee
*Steamed Clams—Wash and scrub clam shells; place in kettle; add water, allowing 1/2 cup water for each peck of clams. Cover kettle and cook until shells open. Serve hot with the following sauce: 3 tablespoons Crisco, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 4 tablespoons chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste.
Cream Crisco and add remaining ingredients. Kettle should be removed from range as soon as shells open, otherwise clams will be over-cooked.
December 6
Caviar Canapes
Roast Duck *Apple Sauce
Canned Beans Mashed Potatoes
Tomato Jelly Salad
Apple Dumplings
Raisins Nuts
Coffee
*Apple Sauce—1 pound apples, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup water, and strained juice of 1/2 lemon. Peel, core, and slice apples, put them into saucepan with sugar, Crisco, water, lemon juice, and cook them until tender. Serve with roast duck.
December 7
Stewed Chicken, Cream Dressing
*Baked Sweet Potatoes
Creamed Carrots Onion Salad
Indian Pudding
Bon Bons Coffee
*Baked Sweet Potatoes—Peel boiled sweet potatoes and cut in slices crosswise. To 2 cups of slices allow 3 tablespoons Crisco, and 2 tablespoons each of sugar and vinegar. Have Crisco hot, lay potatoes in it, sprinkle sugar over top, and pour vinegar over lightly. Bake until a golden brown.
December 8
Lamb Chops
Creamed Potatoes Lima Beans
Carrot Salad
Pineapple Ice Cream Candy
*Cocoanut Layer Cake Coffee
*Cocoanut Layer Cake—Beat 1/4 cup Crisco with 1 cup sugar till creamy, add 2 well beaten eggs, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2-1/2 cups flour sifted with 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, mix and divide into Criscoed and floured layer tins. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Use boiled frosting and shredded cocoanut for filling.
December 9
Oysters
*Chicken Hot Pot
Celery Salad Dried Apricot Shortcake
Coffee
*Chicken Hot Pot—Prepare large chicken. Cut into as small pieces as joints allow. Do not remove meats from bones. Boil chicken until nearly tender and keep broth left in kettle when you remove chicken from it. Cut 1 pound of lean, raw ham into small squares. Wash and peel and parboil 8 large potatoes and slice them. Slice 3 medium-sized onions. Put into deep baking dish layer of chicken, layer of ham, layer of potatoes, and layer of onions. Repeat until all are used up; when arranging these layers strew tiny bits of Crisco over them. Pour chicken broth over layers, well seasoned with salt and pepper. Add enough water to almost fill pot. Cover pot, and bake for 1-1/2 hours. Be sure plenty of water is in pot while baking is in progress. When cooked put baked chicken and vegetables in large tureen. Garnish edges with parsley. Sprinkle parsley and sliced cooked carrots over top. Serve with small slice of toast on each plate.
December 10
Cream of Celery Soup
Broiled Oysters, a la Francaise
Bean Salad Cheese Straws
*Fig and Apple Cobbler
Coffee
*Fig and Apple Cobbler—Nearly fill Criscoed baking dish with equal amounts of sliced apples and chopped figs, arranging them in layers; add 1 cup water, strained juice 1 lemon and cover with Crisco biscuit dough about 1 inch thick. Place on range, cover tightly with a pan and simmer 30 minutes. Lift cover carefully, make an opening in middle of crust, and pour in another 1/2 cup water, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and 1 cup scraped maple sugar. Sprinkle a little maple sugar over top of pudding before serving it.
December 11
Roast Pork, Apple Sauce
Franconia Potatoes Creamed Onions
Endive and Grape Salad
*Lemon and Apple Tart
Coffee
*Lemon and Apple Tart—Line a large pie plate with Crisco pastry. Mix together 2 cups grated apple, grated rind and juice of 1 lemon, 1-1/2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, beaten without separating whites and yolks, 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 cup thin cream. Turn into plate lined with pastry, wet edge, and put strips of pastry over top of filling. Finish with strip of pastry on edge. Let bake until firm in center.
December 12
Baked Codfish
Piquant Beets Baked Potatoes
Lettuce and Cheese Salad
*Bread Pudding Coffee
*Bread Pudding—4 cups bread cut in dice, 3 tablespoons sultanas, 2 tablespoons chopped candied peel, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon Crisco, rind of 1 lemon, 2 eggs, 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 cup milk, and 4 lumps of sugar. Put lump sugar in dry saucepan and heat until it turns dark brown. Add milk and stir it over fire until sugar dissolves. Mix bread, cleaned sultanas, chopped peel, sugar, Crisco, grated lemon rind, and colored milk. Beat up eggs and add them with lemon juice. Let mixture stand for 1/2 an hour, or longer, if bread is stale. Have ready Criscoed mold, put in mixture, cover top with piece of Criscoed paper, and steam it for 2 hours. Turn carefully on to hot dish and serve with it any good sweet sauce.
December 13
Chestnut Soup
Pork Chops, Apple Sauce
Potatoes Steamed Squash
Lettuce and Pepper Salad
*Raisin Roly Poly
Coffee
*Raisin Roly Poly—2 cups flour, 2 cups breadcrumbs, 3/4 cup Crisco, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/4 pound stoned raisins, 1/4 tablespoon salt, and cold water. Rub Crisco well into flour, breadcrumbs, sugar, salt, and add raisins stoned and halved. Add enough water to mix whole into soft paste. Roll into neat shape. Roll up in floured and scalded pudding cloth, tying ends securely. Put in pan of fast boiling water, and let boil steadily for 3 hours. Take off cloth, and serve pudding on hot dish.
December 14
Corn Chowder Bread Sticks
Chicken and Chestnut Salad
Stuffed Celery
*Raisin Puffs, Vanilla Sauce
Coffee
*Raisin Puffs—Beat 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1/2 cup sugar till creamy, add 1 beaten egg, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup milk, 1-1/3 cups flour sifted with 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg, and 1 cup chopped raisins. Crisco baking cups and fill half full with mixture and steam for 1 hour.
December 15
Boiled Ham
Fried Potatoes Asparagus on Toast
Bar-Le-Duc and Cheese Sandwiches
*Cocoanut Pie Coffee
*Cocoanut Pie—1 cup chopped cocoanut, 3 eggs, 1 cup cream, 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons cornstarch, 4 tablespoons cold water, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 6 tablespoons sugar, and some Crisco pastry. Line 2 pie plates with Crisco pastry. Put milk and cream into saucepan, bring to boiling point, add cornstarch mixed with water. Remove saucepan from fire, stir in Crisco. Let stand until perfectly cold. Beat up yolks of eggs and sugar together, then add cocoanut to them. Add this mixture to milk with stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Divide into prepared pie plates and bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes. Serve hot.
December 16
Baked Fish Pudding
Galantine of Veal
*Pea Croquettes, Tomato Sauce
Cream Cheese Salad
Chocolate Meringues Coffee
*Pea Croquettes—Boil 1 cup dried peas that have been soaked over night, till tender, strain and press through sieve. Fry 1 chopped onion in 1 tablespoon Crisco, add to peas, with 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, 2 tablespoons flour, salt and pepper to taste, 2 beaten eggs, and breadcrumbs to make stiff enough to form into croquettes. Brush over with beaten egg, toss in breadcrumbs, and fry golden brown in hot Crisco. Serve hot with tomato sauce.
December 17
Farina Soup
Salmon Loaf
Glazed Potatoes Stewed Carrots
Cabbage Salad *Pear Croquettes
Coffee
*Pear Croquettes—6 halves canned pears, 1/2 cup rice, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 cups milk, 1 lemon, 1 egg, lady fingers and angelica. Put milk and sugar in saucepan, bring to boil, and then add rice and grated rind of 1 lemon. Stir this over fire until rice is tender and milk absorbed, then turn it on to plate, and put aside to cool. Stand pears on hair sieve until syrup has drained away, then stuff hollow side with boiled rice, shaping it to a dome, so that they look like whole pears. Beat egg on plate, crush lady fingers, and rub them through wire sieve. Dip stuffed pears in egg, and toss in lady finger crumbs. Have ready pan of hot Crisco, fry croquettes in it until a golden brown. Take them up, and drain on paper. Insert small piece of angelica in end of each to represent pear-stalk. Dish up and serve hot.
December 18
Fillets of Flounder
Tournedos of Beef
*Tomato Croquettes
Celery Mayonnaise Orange Tartlets
Coffee
*Tomato Croquettes—Cook 1 quart tomatoes until reduced to 2 cups. Add to them 2 cups crumbs, 3 tablespoons melted Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, dust sugar, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, pinch red pepper, and dust of nutmeg. Set away to cool. Shape into croquettes, roll in flour, brush over with beaten egg, toss in crumbs and fry in hot Crisco.
December 19
*Soup Bonne Femme
Broiled Lamb Steak with Virginia Ham
Stuffed Egg Plant
Frontenac Salad Apple Tart
Coffee
*Soup Bonne Femme—Wash, dry, and cut up 2 large heads of lettuce, 1 pound sorrel, and 1 pound spinach. Add 3 pints white stock, and simmer, with 1/2 cup Crisco, 2 carrots, and 2 onions, for 1 hour. Blend together 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, and yolks of 2 eggs, thin with 1 cup of boiling milk, and add to broth. Season with salt and pepper, press through sieve, and serve with croutons.
December 20
Lentil Soup
Roast Loin of Pork, Apple Sauce
Potato Balls Artichokes
Celery and Pineapple Salad
*Sultana Pudding
Coffee
*Sultana Pudding—Line shallow dish with plain pastry, put in bottom layer of sultana raisins. Beat 1/2 cup Crisco to a cream with 4 tablespoons sugar, add 2 well beaten eggs, 2 tablespoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 cup flour. Mix and spread on top of raisins and bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. Serve cold.
December 21
*Scallops
Broiled Squab Chickens
Braised Endive Potatoes Anna
Chiffonade Salad
Apricot Custard
Coffee
*Scallops—For 1 pint of scallops take 2 tablespoons Crisco. Melt in frying pan, add scallops and 2 minced onions and 1 tablespoon flour with 1 pint liquor from scallops. Cook thoroughly, seasoning with salt and bit of paprika, then add 1/2 cup breadcrumbs and yolks of 4 eggs. Fill small shells with mixture and bake in quick oven, adding, if liked, little grated cheese.
December 22
Petite Marmite
Goulash of Veal
Saute Potatoes Cauliflower
Orange Salad
*Cornstarch Souffle
Coffee
*Cornstarch Souffle—Bring 1 quart milk and 1 tablespoon Crisco to boiling point; beat 4 tablespoons cornstarch with 1 cup sugar, yolks of 5 eggs together and add to hot milk. Stir and cook 8 minutes then add 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Pour into Criscoed fireproof dish. Beat up whites of eggs to stiff froth, then beat in 4 tablespoons sugar, pour over top of pudding and brown lightly in oven.
December 23
*Baked Tripe
Mashed Potatoes
Stuffed Onions
Baked Bean Salad
Cheese Balls
Stewed Figs, Whipped Cream
Coffee
*Baked Tripe—Cut tripe into good-sized pieces and spread over them the following stuffing: Mix together 4 tablespoons crumbs, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, dust powdered mace, 1 tablespoon chopped cooked ham, 1 chopped onion, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, dust paprika, and 1 well beaten egg. Roll them up and fasten with wooden toothpicks.
Dredge with flour and spread on each 1 tablespoon Crisco. Bake in hot oven 30 minutes, basting frequently with melted Crisco and hot water. Garnish with lemon slices and pass melted butter.
Vegetarian
December 24
Cream of Tomato Soup
Cheese Souffle Graham Rolls
Lettuce, French Dressing
*Eve’s Pudding
Springerlie
Coffee
*Eve’s Pudding—Mix together in a basin, 1 cup seeded raisins, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 cups crumbs, 1 cup currants, 8 chopped apples, 1 teaspoon each, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, 1/4 cup milk, and 4 well beaten eggs. Pour into Criscoed mold, cover with greased paper and steam 2 hours. Serve with hot milk.
Christmas Dinner
December 25
Oysters
Mangoes Celery Stuffed Olives
Tomato Soup
Roast Turkey, Cranberry Jelly
Roast Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Turnips
Brussels Sprouts
Orange and Celery Salad
Vanilla Blanc-mange
*English Plum Pudding
Fruit Coffee
*English Plum Pudding—1 cupful breadcrumbs, 1 cupful flour, 1 cupful brown sugar, 1/2 cupful Crisco, 1 teaspoonful salt, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful mixed spices, 3 eggs, 1 cupful milk, 1/2 cupful seeded raisins, 1/2 cupful chopped candied citron peel, 1 cupful currants, 1/2 cupful chopped preserved ginger, 1/4 cupful brandy, 1/2 cupful chopped English walnut meats. Mix flour with breadcrumbs, add Crisco, sugar, salt, baking powder, spices, nuts, fruit, milk, eggs well beaten, and brandy. Pour into Criscoed mold, cover with greased paper and steam steadily for four hours. Turn out and serve with liquid or hard sauce. The brandy may be omitted.
December 26
Stuffed Veal Heart, Tomato Sauce
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Turnips
Lettuce, Apple and Date Salad
Cream Cheese on Toasted Crackers
*Baked Apples with Custard
Coffee
*Baked Apples—Core and peel 8 apples; fill centers with 1/4 cup Crisco creamed with 1/2 cup brown sugar, add 4 tablespoons chopped citron peel, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice mixed together. Mix 2 tablespoons sugar with 1/2 cup water and brush over apples; sprinkle with crumbs browned in hot Crisco; bake for 20 minutes in moderate oven. Serve cold with custard.
December 27
*Terrapin, a la Maryland
Saratoga Chips
Roasted Capon, Oyster Sauce
Sweet Potatoes
Stewed Celery
Apple and Cabbage Salad
Hamburg Cream
Coffee
*Terrapin, a la Maryland—Put terrapin in kettle, cover with boiling salted water, add 2 slices each carrot and onion, and 1 stalk celery. Cook till meat is tender. Remove from water, cool, draw out nails from feet, cut under shell close to upper shell and remove. Empty upper shell, remove and discard gall bladder, sand bags and thick intestines.
Liver, small intestines are used with meat. Add terrapin meat to 3/4 cup white stock, 2 tablespoons wine; cook slowly until liquor is reduced half. Add liver separated in pieces, 2 yolks of eggs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste, 1 tablespoon flour mixed with 1/2 cup cream, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Make hot and just before serving add 1 tablespoon sherry wine. Turn into hot dish and garnish with toast points.
December 28
*Belgian Hare, en Casserole
Scalloped Potatoes
Braised Celery
Pineapple and Celery Salad
Lemon Pudding, Caramel Sauce
Coffee
*Belgian Hare, en Casserole—Separate hare into joints; season with salt, paprika and red pepper, and saute in 1/4 cup Crisco with 2 slices of bacon cut in dice to golden brown. Put hare in casserole with 1 cup hot water and put on cover. Bake 30 minutes, then add 2 tablespoons Crisco rubbed into 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup water, seasoning to taste, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Cook in moderate oven for 3 hours. Send to table without removing cover.
Vegetarian
December 29
Nut Turkey Roast, Cranberry Jelly
Creamed Onions
Baked Potatoes
Hubbard Squash
Pineapple and Orange Salad
*Pastry Fingers
Lalla Rookh
Coffee
*Pastry Fingers—Sift 1/2 cup pastry flour, 2 cups entire wheat flour, and 1 teaspoon salt into basin, add 3 tablespoons Crisco, and 1/2 cup butter, cut them into flours with knife until finely divided. Then rub in fine with finger tips and make into stiff paste with cold water. Roll out 1/4 inch in thickness, cut in finger shape pieces, lay on Criscoed tins and bake from 7 to 10 minutes in hot oven. Cool, brush over with slightly beaten egg white, and sprinkle with salted pine nuts. Return to oven to brown nut meats.
December 30
Sirloin Steak
Glazed Pumpkin Marbled Potatoes
Celery Salad
Cheese Relish
*Boston Pudding
Coffee
*Boston Pudding—Cut 1 loaf bread into thin slices and spread with Crisco. Crisco baking dish, put into it layer bread, sprinkle over 1 tablespoon each cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg, then a layer seeded raisins, and so on till dish is full. Pour over 1 quart milk sweetened to taste, with 3 well beaten eggs, allow to soak 4 hours, then add 2 cups more milk sweetened to taste. Cover dish and bake in moderate oven 3 hours. Serve with wine sauce.
December 31
Codfish, Delmonico Style
Roasted Leg of Lamb
*Chestnut Boulettes
Baked Potato Strips
Watercress and Green Pepper Salad
Cherry and Almond Parfait
Lady Fingers
Coffee
*Chestnut Boulettes—Mix together in a basin 1 cup mashed chestnuts, which have been peeled after cooking in boiling salted water, beat into this 1 tablespoon whipped cream, 1/2 tablespoon Crisco, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 egg yolks, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon sherry wine. Cool and fold in beaten egg whites, form into small balls, dip in beaten egg, toss in crumbs and fry in hot Crisco. Drain and serve.
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