The Story of Crisco Part 48

Vegetarian

April 23

_Julienne Soup Creamed Salsify Patties Mushrooms in Ca.s.serole Mashed Potatoes Green String Beans Orange Fritters *Swiss Pudding Coffee_

_*Swiss Pudding_--1-1/2 cups breadcrumbs, 1 pound apples, 4 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and grated lemon rind.

Choose good cooking apples, peel, core, and thinly slice them. Well Crisco a pint pudding-dish, place some crumbs on bottom, and press some against the sides of dish, put in layer of apples, some sugar, a little lemon peel or any other flavoring preferred, then a few more crumbs, and repeat this until all are used; leaving crumbs for top layer.

Pile mixture up little as it shrinks while cooking. Place Crisco in small pieces on top. Bake in moderately hot oven until apples are quite cooked and pudding is browned top and bottom. Turn pudding out on to flat dish, sprinkle sugar over top. Serve with boiled custard or cream. This pudding may be served hot or cold.

Vegetarian

April 24

_Cream of Pea Soup Ladies' Cabbage in Ramekins Chestnut Puree Mock New Potatoes *Creamed Beets Banana Salad Marshmallow Pudding Coffee_

_*Creamed Beets_--Boil 8 medium-sized beets until tender, then remove from saucepan and place them in cold water, rub skins off carefully with hands, cut in 1/2 inch cubes. Make a sauce of 2 tablespoons Crisco creamed with 2 tablespoons flour and 1/2 cup water in which beets were boiled 2 tablespoons cream, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 teaspoons sugar, salt and pepper to taste. Pour sauce over hot beets and serve in hot dish.

Vegetarian

April 25

_Cream of Turnip Soup *Bean Croquettes, Tomato Sauce Savory Rice Lettuce Salad, French Dressing Stewed Prunes Coffee_

_*Bean Croquettes_--1 pint white beans, 1/2 cup cream, yolk 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon onion juice, 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper to taste. Soak beans over night, drain, cover them with fresh water, boil an hour, drain, throw away water, cover with fresh water and boil until tender; drain and press beans through colander. Rub Crisco and flour together, add cream, stir until almost boiling, then add yolks of eggs. Stir again for a minute over fire, add bean pulp and all seasonings; mix and turn out to cool. When cool, form into cylinders, dip in egg, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in hot Crisco. Serve with tomato sauce.

April 26

_Mushroom Canapes *Chicken, a la King Potato Croquettes Tomato Mayonnaise Cheese-Drops Washington Pie Coffee_

_*Chicken, a la King_--1/2 boiled chicken (one pint in thick pieces), 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 fresh mushrooms, 1 cup cream, 1/2 cup sherry wine, yolks 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 green pepper and 1 red pepper, cut in long thin strips. Melt Crisco, add mushrooms, cook 5 minutes.

Add chicken, heat through, add salt, wine and the strips of peppers.

(The chicken should be removed from bone in long thick pieces.) Beat yolks until light, add cream, cook over boiling water or in chafing dish, stirring constantly until thickened, about 1-1/2 minutes; then pour over hot chicken mixture and serve at once on toast.

April 27

_Fried Trout Radishes *Grilled Chickens Glazed New Potatoes Broiled Tomatoes Stuffed Cuc.u.mber Salad Cheese Sticks Roman Cream Coffee_

_*Grilled Chickens_--Have small spring chickens, clean and wipe well, and split down back. Soak them for an hour in olive oil that is seasoned with an onion, sliced, some salt, pepper, parsley and lemon juice. Lift them from this dressing, and without wiping at all, but sprinkling over them a little flour, set to broil over a clear fire.

Melt 4 tablespoons Crisco, add to it juice of 1 lemon, gla.s.s of Madeira and tablespoon cooked ham chopped as finely as it is possible to get it. Have this sauce hot, and put over chickens when taking them up.

April 28

_Clam c.o.c.ktail Shad, Stuffed and Baked, Brown b.u.t.ter Sauce Mashed Potatoes Beets Stuffed with Peppers *Caramel Custard Coffee_

_*Caramel Custard_--1 eggs and 1 yolk, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 pint milk, and 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Have plain tin pudding mold, put 3 tablespoons sugar into small saucepan and stir till it becomes quite brown like coffee. Pour this into mold and run it all over bottom of it. Crisco then sides of mold, beat eggs and sugar together till mixed well, then add milk and flavoring. Pour all into prepared mold, cover with piece of Criscoed paper; have stewpan with an inch of boiling water in it; put saucer or something flat in bottom of it, set pudding tin on this, and cover pan with lid. Let steam slowly for at least 1 hour. It must not boil, but be set on part of stove where it will keep hot without boiling. Turn out and serve hot or cold.

Vegetarian

April 29

_Cream of Salsify Soup Nut Sausage, Brown Sauce Grilled Sweet Potatoes *Sour German Cabbage Apple and Prune Tart Coffee_

_*Sour German Cabbage_--2 quarts chopped cabbage, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup vinegar, salt and pepper to taste.

Soak cabbage in cold water for 1 hour; drain; place it in an uncovered kettle of boiling salted water, cook 20 minutes; drain and return to kettle. Add vinegar, bring cabbage to boiling-point and cook 5 minutes. Add Crisco, salt and pepper to taste.

April 30

_*Pepper Pot Mutton Cutlets, Tomato Sauce New Potatoes Lima Beans Sliced Tomato Salad Cheese Fingers Violet Mousse Coffee_

_*Pepper Pot_--A small knuckle of veal, 1 pound cooked tripe, 1 onion, 2 medium-sized potatoes, 1 bunch pot herbs, 1 cup Crisco, 3 quarts cold water.

Wash veal and pot herbs and slice onion, put them with water, in soup kettle, on back of stove, where they will come gradually to boiling point. Allow to simmer 4 hours or more. Strain and set away to cool.

This must be done day before it is wanted. When cold, skim off every particle of fat, add to it potatoes, cut in small cubes, tripe, cut in 1/2 inch squares, bay leaf, few sprigs parsley chopped fine, and meat cut from knuckle, rejecting every bit of fat and gristle. Put them on to boil just long enough before dinner to cook potatoes; when boiling season to taste with salt and red pepper. Thicken soup with one teaspoon each flour and cornstarch mixed smooth with little water.

Mix Crisco with 1 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and little pepper, and enough cold water to make dough stiff enough to roll out, cut in small squares and boil in soup 1/2 hour.

May 1

_Beef Soup Noodles Roast Beef Yorkshire Pudding Browned Potatoes *Canned Corn Pudding Spinach and Egg Salad Strawberry Sherbet Coffee_

_*Canned Corn Pudding--_1 can corn, 1 cup hot milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour, and 1 egg.

Melt Crisco; mix well with flour; add the milk gradually, then the seasoning and corn, and last of all beaten egg. Pour into Criscoed baking dish and bake in moderate oven for 1/2 hour.

May 2

_Porterhouse Steak Scalloped Potatoes with Onion Artichokes, Hollandaise Sauce *Daisy Salad Roquefort Cheese Lemon Ice Cream with Grated Pineapple Coffee_