The Story of Crisco Part 59

August 23

_Fish Timbales, Cream Sauce Mashed Potatoes Stewed Okra Cuc.u.mber 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 Sh.e.l.l 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 gla.s.s 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 Frica.s.see 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