The Story of Crisco Part 70

_*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 sh.e.l.l close to upper sh.e.l.l and remove. Empty upper sh.e.l.l, 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 Ca.s.serole Scalloped Potatoes Braised Celery Pineapple and Celery Salad Lemon Pudding Caramel Sauce Coffee_

_*Belgian Hare, en Ca.s.serole_--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 ca.s.serole 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 b.u.t.ter, 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. Cris...o...b..king 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 b.a.l.l.s, dip in beaten egg, toss in crumbs and fry in hot Crisco. Drain and serve.

[Ill.u.s.tration]

An addition to the Crisco library, "The Whys of Cooking," or Questions Asked and Answered, by Janet McKenzie Hill, of the Boston Cooking School and Editor and Publisher of "American Cookery" is off the press. Ill.u.s.trated and containing 150 new recipes, it will be a valuable book every woman will appreciate.

We will be glad to send this to any one who will write for it, enclosing five 2-cent stamps.

Address Department C.O.

The Procter & Gamble Co.

Cincinnati, Ohio.