_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 ¼ 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 ½ cup pastry flour, 2 cups entire wheat
flour, and 1 teaspoon salt into basin, add 3 tablespoons Crisco, and
½ 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 ¼ 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, ½ tablespoon Crisco,
¼ 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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