_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_
_Coffee_
*_Maids of Honor_--Crisco puff pastry, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1
tablespoon ground almonds, 2 eggs, ½ 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 ¼ 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, ½ 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 ⅓ 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 1½ 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 ½ pint milk, stir till it boils 4 minutes, add
salt and pepper to taste; ½ 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_--1½ pounds fillet or neck of veal, Crisco
for frying, ½ teaspoon chopped parsley, ¼ 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 ¼ 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_--½ cup ground rice, 3 cups milk, 3 eggs, 4
tablespoons sugar, rind ½ lemon, 2 tablespoons Crisco, ¼ 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 ½ cup milk, pinch salt, and stir
till boiling. Remove from fire, add 4 tablespoons sugar, yolks 3 eggs 1
by 1, ½ 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 ½ tablespoon Crisco. Heat thoroughly before
sending to table.
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_--⅔ cup sugar, ½ cup Crisco, ⅔ cup milk, 1⅔ cups
flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, ½ 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 ¾ 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, ½ cup milk,
½ tablespoon Crisco, and ½ tablespoon sugar; beat into this ¾ of cup
of canned corn. Sift together twice, ⅞ cup of flour, 1 tablespoon
baking powder, and ½ 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 3½ tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons melted
Crisco, and blend together until smooth. Remove from fire, add 4
tablespoons grated cheese, ¼ 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 ¾ of an inch of
biscuit around sides. Spread inside cake with butter, fill with crushed
raspberries, which have been standing ½ 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: ½ pound
marshmallows, ½ cup confectioners’ sugar, and ½ 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, ½
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 ½ an inch of boiling water. Put lid on
saucepan and steam gently ¾ 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 Frutti Ice Cream_
_Macaroons_
_Coffee_
*_Chicken Croquettes_--2 cups cooked chicken, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼
teaspoon celery salt, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, ½ 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 ½
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 Beignets_
*_Apricot Pudding_
_Iced Coffee_
*_Apricot Pudding_--Put 1 pint milk into saucepan, add two tablespoons
Crisco, and bring to boiling point. Mix ½ cup cornstarch with ½ cup
milk and stir slowly into boiling milk, add ½ 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 ½ cup pork and ½ 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_--½ cup breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon Crisco, ¼ teaspoon
mustard, 1 cup grated cheese, 1 egg, ½ 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, ½ teaspoonful salt, and 1 cup Crisco; rub
well together, add ½ 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, ½ cup milk, ½ cup Crisco, 2¼ cups
flour, 3½ 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, ½ 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
½ cup of water, 2 cups milk, season with salt and pepper, add ¼ 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, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼
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 ½ cup water to
boiling point, then add ½ 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_
*_Pop Overs_
_Tomato Mayonnaise_
_Pimiento Sandwiches_
_Frozen Banana Whip_
_Coffee_