The Story of Crisco Part 47

April 13

_Indian Soup Rice *Mock Goose, Apple Sauce Stewed Celery Pineapple Salad Rhubarb Pie Coffee_

_*Mock Goose_--2 cups breadcrumbs, 2 cups dropped black walnuts, 2 cups boiled rice, 6 hard-cooked eggs, 3 raw eggs, 1 tablespoon grated onion, salt, pepper and grated nutmeg to taste.

Put breadcrumbs in saucepan with 2 cups water; cook for a few minutes; add hard-cooked eggs, chopped; take saucepan from fire and add black walnut meats and the rice. When this is well mixed, add raw eggs, slightly beaten, and seasonings. Form this into shape of a goose, reserving portions for legs and wings. Take a tablespoon of mixture in your hand and press it into shape of a leg; put piece of dry macaroni into it for bone and fasten it to goose. Do other side same way. Form remaining portions into small pieces looking like wings tucked under; press them to side of goose. Brush goose over with melted Crisco and bake for 1 hour. Serve with apple sauce.

April 14

_*Lobster Newburgh Glazed Sweetbreads Loin of Lamb, Roasted, Mint Sauce Asparagus Potato Croquettes Pineapple Sherbet Coffee_

_*Lobster Newburgh_--2 pounds lobster, 1/4 cup Crisco, salt, red pepper, and grated nutmeg to taste, 1 tablespoon sherry, 1 tablespoon brandy, 1/3 cup cream, and 2 egg yolks. Remove cooked lobster meat from sh.e.l.l and cut in slices. Melt Crisco, add lobster and cook 3 minutes. Add salt, red pepper, grated nutmeg, sherry and brandy; cook 1 minute, then add cream and yolks of eggs slightly beaten, and stir until thickened. Serve with toast.

April 15

_*Stewed Chicken Baking Powder Biscuit Spinach b.u.t.tered Parsnips Celery and Orange Salad Cheese Relish Ribbon Jelly Coffee_

_*Stewed Chicken_--Draw, singe, and joint a stewing chicken. Season pieces with pepper and salt and cover with boiling water. Cover and stew gently until tender.

Remove chicken. Place pieces in a colander on a plate in oven to drain, and thicken gravy by adding 1 tablespoon flour rubbed with 1 tablespoon Crisco. Add salt and pepper to taste, a little chopped parsley and 1 cup milk. Beat an egg until light; pour on it part of gravy, beating carefully to prevent lumps; return to remainder of gravy; bring to boil and pour over chicken.

April 16

_Oyster Bisque *Mackerel, a la Claudine Radishes Corn Peas Potatoes Lettuce and Pepper Gra.s.s Salad Cheese b.a.l.l.s Princess Pudding Coffee_

_*Mackerel, a la Claudine_--Take a nice large fresh mackerel, split it down back and remove bone, season fish with melted Crisco, chopped fresh mushrooms, salt, pepper, and finely chopped shallot; put on to a grill iron and cook in front or over brisk fire for about 15 minutes, then take up and serve on hot dish with the following sauce: Take 1 cup brown sauce, 2 tablespoons capers, pinch chopped parsley, four anchovies rubbed through sieve, 1 teaspoon glaze, and 1 chopped shallot, 3 or 4 shredded b.u.t.ton mushrooms; boil up and simmer for 10 minutes, rub through sieve, then add juice of 1 lemon and 4 chopped olives, reboil and serve.

April 17

_*Potato Soup Breaded Lamb Chops, Tomato Sauce Mashed Potatoes Creamed Turnips Cheese Salad Canary Pudding Coffee_

_*Potato Soup_--1 quart white second stock or water, 1/2 pint milk, 1 pound potatoes, 1 onion, 1 stalk celery, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon fine sago or crushed tapioca, salt and pepper to taste.

Slice potatoes, onion, and celery. Make Crisco hot in stewpan, add vegetables, fry and cook until Crisco is absorbed, stirring frequently to prevent them browning. Add stock, and simmer until vegetables are tender (about 1 hour). Rub through fine sieve; return to saucepan, add milk, and bring to boil. Sprinkle in sago, cook until transparent, add seasoning to taste, and serve.

April 18

_Orange c.o.c.ktail Boiled Capon, Caper Sauce b.u.t.tered Beans *Carrot Fritters Olive Salad Baked Chocolate Custard Coffee_

_*Carrot Fritters_--Have nice, young, tender carrots, clean and sc.r.a.pe them carefully, and cut each one in two lengthwise. Put to boil in salted water. Take up, drain and cool, and make a frying batter as follows: Beat up 1 egg, sift in 1 cup flour, 3/4 cup milk, pinch of salt, and 1 tablespoon melted Crisco. Mix till smooth and glossy.

Allow to stand in cool place for 1 hour, then add 1 teaspoon baking powder. Put in few pieces of carrot at a time. Drop into hot Crisco and fry for few minutes. Serve hot.

April 19

_*Kidney Soup Flounder, White Sauce Roast Shoulder of Mutton Potatoes Spinach au Jus Cauliflower and Red Pepper Salad Moulded Pears, Whipped Cream Coffee_

_*Kidney Soup_--1/2 pound ox kidney, 1/2 pound lean beef, 3 pints brown stock, 3 tablespoons coa.r.s.ely chopped fat bacon, 1 tablespoon chopped onion, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, salt and pepper to taste.

Wash kidney and beef quickly, dry them, and cut them up quite small.

Melt Crisco in saucepan, add bacon, onion, and kidney, and fry them until brown. Add stock and salt to taste, and simmer soup for about 2-1/2 hours. Strain out solid parts, pound them to a paste, and rub this through fine wire or hair sieve. Rinse out pan, mix flour smoothly and thinly with little of strained soup. Reboil rest of liquid, pour in flour, and stir it till it boils. Cook for ten minutes and carefully skim it. Then mix in smoothly sieved meat, add seasoning, reheat soup without boiling it after adding meat, and it is ready to serve. Water can replace stock; if so, add piece of carrot and turnip and bunch herbs to soup, but do not pound or sieve these.

A more delicate soup is made with four or five sheep's kidneys instead of ox kidney. Add little caramel coloring if needed.

April 20

_Celery Soup *Braised Ox-Tongue Baked Potatoes Mashed Turnips Cold Slaw Cheese Wafers Rice Mousse Coffee_

_*Braised Ox-Tongue_--1 ox-tongue, 1 pint stock, 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 bouquet garni, 1 clove, 1/2 pint piquante sauce, and 6 thin slices bacon. Trim ox-tongue, which should be obtained salted or pickled ready for use. Blanch, and let it cool. Put into fish-kettle or stewpan, large enough to hold tongue, slices bacon, onion peeled and sliced, carrot sc.r.a.ped and cut in pieces, bouquet garni and clove; add stock, put in tongue, and cook until three parts done, then take it up, and skin while hot. Strain liquor it was cooked in, take off fat, add piquante sauce, put tongue into this, and finish cooking.

When tender, cut in slices, dish, and pour sauce over, and serve.

Mashed potatoes, spinach, or peas served with tongue is a great improvement.

The piquante sauce is made as follows: 4 shallots, 3 mushrooms, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 carrot, sprig thyme, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons vinegar, half pint brown stock, 1/2 teaspoon anchovy extract, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, 3 tablespoons flour, salt and red pepper to taste.

Peel and chop shallots, carrot, and mushrooms; melt Crisco in a saucepan; fry vegetables a nice brown; then add vinegar, bay leaf, and thyme. Reduce vinegar to half the quant.i.ty; stir in flour, dilute with stock, bring to boil; then add anchovy extract, Worcestershire sauce, salt and red pepper to taste. Take out thyme and bay leaf. Simmer for 10 minutes. Skim, and use as required.

April 21

_*Mock Turtle Soup Beef, a la Mode Potatoes Cauliflower Beet Salad Cheese Wafers Rhubarb Shortcake Coffee_

_*Mock Turtle Soup_--1/2 calf's head, 2 pounds shin beef, small knuckle veal, 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup flour, 1 ounce ham, large bunch herbs, 12 whole peppers, 6 cloves, blade mace, 3 onions, 1 carrot, 1/2 head celery, 1 leek, gla.s.s sherry or some lemon juice, salt and red pepper to taste, and quenelles. Leave head in water to soak for 5 or 6 hours; then wash well and take out brains. Bone head.

Cut 6 ounces lean part of veal and reserve to make quenelles.

Then chop bones taken from head, the veal, and beef. Put them into stockpot, and place flesh from head on top; then well cover with water, add little salt and let slowly come to boil. Skim well; add vegetables, cleaned but not cut up, and spices. Let all simmer very slowly for 8 or 9 hours. When head is quite tender (it will take about four hours), lift it out carefully and place between 2 dishes to press until quite cold. Strain stock. Melt Crisco in pan, add ham cut into small pieces, and fry slowly for five minutes, then add flour and stir until it is of dark brown color. Take off stove and add stock by degrees; stir over fire until it boils; put it at corner of stove to simmer for 20 minutes; skim and strain it. Cut head into small square pieces and warm up in soup; add sherry, red pepper, and salt to taste.

Turn it out into tureen, then put in some very small quenelles, made with teaspoons, and poached for 10 minutes in water.

Vegetarian

April 22

_Calcutta Bisque Tomatoes Casino *Asparagus Loaf, Bechamel Sauce Leeks in b.u.t.ter Roast Potatoes Cherry Salad Cheese Crackers Coffee_

_*Asparagus Loaf_--Crisco thoroughly a charlotte russe mold, 1/4 size, and line it with cooked tips of asparagus well drained. Cook together 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 teaspoon salt, dash of pepper, add gradually 1 cup of cream and boil 5 minutes. Remove from fire, add 1 cup cooked asparagus tips and 4 eggs thoroughly beaten.

Turn mixture into mold, set in pan of hot water and cook in a moderate oven about 30 minutes or until center is firm. Turn loaf on hot dish, arrange about it, little oblong pieces of bread that have been dipped in beaten eggs and milk and browned. Pour sauce around it and serve at once.