teaspoon melted Crisco. Pour this gradually into 1 cup flour and ½
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 1½ cups of stock, with 1 cup stewed
and strained tomato, over fire. When boiling add 1 cup well-washed
or blanched rice and ½ teaspoon salt; stir lightly with fork,
occasionally, until liquor is absorbed. Then add ½ 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 Pot Pie_
_Summer Squash_
_Mashed Potatoes_
_Dressed Cucumbers_
_Raspberry Float_
*_Cushion Cake_
_Iced Coffee_
*_Cushion Cake_--Cream 1 cup Crisco with ½ cup sugar, add 2 well
beaten eggs, and ½ cup milk. Sift 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking
powder, and ½ 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, ½ teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon,
and ¼ 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, ½ cup sugar, 1 cup
flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 well beaten egg, ½ 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,
½ cup flour, 2 eggs, ½ 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 ½ 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 ½ 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, Chiffonade 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, ½ 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 ½ 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 ¼ 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, ⅛ teaspoon salt, and ½ 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 4½ 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 1½ 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 ¼ cup Crisco. Add ½ cup soft, stale breadcrumbs,
¼ 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, sail 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, 1½ tablespoons cornstarch, 5 powdered
macaroons, 18 glace cherries, 1 piece of lemon peel, and ½ 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 ½ cup milk. Heat 2 cups
milk in double boiler, add 2 tablespoons cornstarch moistened with 1
well beaten egg, 1 teaspoon Crisco, ½ teaspoon salt, and macaroons.
Cook for 20 minutes, remove from fire, add ½ teaspoon vanilla extract.
Turn into Criscoed and sugared pudding dish, sprinkle ½ 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 1½ teacups grated chocolate smoothly in 1 cup milk, add
it to Crisco mixture, with 2 cups cakecrumbs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, ½
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 ¾ cup Crisco with 1½ cups sugar, add 4 well
beaten eggs, 1 cup milk, sift in 3 cups flour, ¾ teaspoon salt, ½
cup cornstarch, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and add 2 teaspoons lemon
extract. Turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake for 1½ 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 ½ 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 2½ cups cold boiled potato
cubes with salt and white pepper to suit taste. Melt 1½ tablespoons
Crisco; add 1 tablespoon flour and ½ 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 ½ cup cream until stiff, add
1 teaspoon melted Crisco, ½ 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, ½ pint
milk, ½ 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 ½ cup Crisco with ½ 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 ½
teaspoon vanilla, pour into platter, bake 30 minutes in hot oven. Beat
up whites of eggs, add pinch salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, and ½ 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 ½ cup flour, when smooth stir in 1 cup milk, 4 tablespoons
sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ½ 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 1½ cups flour and 1½ teaspoons baking powder.
With tips of fingers work into flour 1 tablespoon Crisco, and when well
mixed add ½ cup milk.
Peel and slice 4 peaches, and mix with ¾ 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 ¾ 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 ½
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 pastry on basin; roll out a piece of pastry
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 ½ cup cleaned currants. Cream ½ cup Crisco with
1 cup sugar, then add 3 well beaten eggs, 3 cups flour, 1½ teaspoons
baking powder, and ½ 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 ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ 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, ¼ 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
¼ 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 ½ 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