The Story of Crisco Part 60

_*Stewed Liver with Mushrooms Baked Potatoes Scalloped Egg Plant Celery and Apple Salad Peach Trifle Sponge Cake Coffee_

_*Stewed Liver with Mushrooms_--Melt 1 tablespoon Crisco and add 1-1/2 tablespoons flour. Brown by long slow cooking. Add salt and pepper and 2 cups water. Cook till as thick as good cream. Have 1 pound of calf's liver cut into 2-inch cubes. Pour boiling water over them and drain immediately. Drop these into brown sauce and cook slowly 10 or 12 minutes. They must not cook rapidly nor too long. In the meantime peel some mushrooms if they are fresh and require such treatment, and drop into melted Crisco and allow to simmer. Just before taking up liver add mushrooms.

September 4

_Noodle Soup Lamb Chops *Cauliflower French Fried Potatoes Watercress Salad Plum Tart Coffee_

_*Cauliflower_--Boil and drain 1 cauliflower and dredge top with pepper and salt, sprinkle with grated cheese, and pour little melted Crisco over it. Set in oven for 5 minutes to brown, and serve surrounded with tomato sauce.

September 5

_Hot Boiled Tongue, Lemon Sauce Boiled Potatoes French Fried Parsnips Cauliflower Salad *Baked Quinces Jam Cake Coffee_

_*Jam Cake_--Cream 2/3 cup Crisco with 1 cup sugar, add 3 well beaten eggs, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 cups flour, 1/2 gla.s.s strawberry preserves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon each cloves, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, mix and bake in layers.

Put strawberry preserves between layers, and white icing on top.

September 6

_Planked Bluefish with Potato Border Grilled Tomatoes *Corn Creole Pepper Salad Cheese Pasties Grape Juice Water Ice Coffee_

_*Corn Creole_--Put 2 cans corn into saucepan with 2 tablespoons chopped green peppers and 1 cup milk, and cook, slowly 10 minutes; season with salt and pepper, add 2 tablespoons Crisco and serve. This may be put in baking dish, covered with breadcrumbs, and baked 15 minutes.

September 7

_*Chestnut Soup Smothered Chicken Parsley Potatoes Peppers Stuffed with Corn Pineapple Salad Almond Custard Coffee_

_*Chestnut Soup_--Boil 1 quart chestnuts 20 minutes, then remove sh.e.l.ls and brown inner skin, and put into saucepan with sufficient boiling water to cover them. Add piece lemon rind and 1 teaspoon salt, when soft remove rind and rub through a sieve. Then pour over them stirring all the time, 2 quarts white stock, 1/2 cup cream, 1 tablespoon Crisco rolled with 2 tablespoons flour, seasoning of salt and pepper. Bring to boiling point, remove from fire and serve hot.

September 8

_*Planked Smelts Baked Lamb Chops Breaded Beets Riced Potatoes Avocado Pear Salad Apricot Cream Coffee_

_*Planked Smelts_--Crisco a plank quite generously, and place upon it smelts that have been split, cleaned, and seasoned, and squeeze liberal amount of lemon juice over them. Arrange in form of large fish shape, and garnish with potato roses put on with pastry tube and sprinkle with tiny bits of Crisco and finely chopped parsley. Place plank in oven and cook until potatoes are slightly browned. Garnish before taking to table with sliced tomatoes and cuc.u.mbers, dressed in vinegar, between potato roses.

September 9

_Soft Sh.e.l.l Crabs on Toast Broiled Steak Creamed Potatoes *Stuffed Onions Oyster Plant Salad Mint and Pineapple Sherbet Jumbles Coffee_

_*Stuffed Onions_--Boil 8 large onions in boiling salted water till tender. Drain, and with sharp knife cut centers from each. Mix together in a basin 2 tablespoons chopped cooked ham, 3 tablespoons crumbs, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 beaten egg, salt, pepper, and paprika to taste, and 1 tablespoon chopped parsley. Fill with this mixture, sprinkle each with crumbs and dot with Crisco.

Place on baking dish and bake in moderate oven 1 hour. Spanish onions are best to use.

September 10

_Braised Ox Tails with Chestnuts Boiled Sweet Potatoes *Baked Stuffed Tomatoes Lima Bean Salad Peach Chartreuse Coffee_

_*Baked Stuffed Tomatoes_--Prepare tomatoes by scooping out centers.

Put into a basin 1 cup crumbs, season with salt and pepper, 1 dozen chopped olives, 2 tablespoons chopped capers, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 tablespoon Crisco, beaten yolks 3 eggs, and moisten with stock. Fill tomatoes and set in hot oven to bake. Sprinkle top with crumbs and dot with Crisco.

September 11

_Oysters au Gratin Sirloin Steak, Anchovy Sauce d.u.c.h.esse Potatoes *b.u.t.tered Beets Red Cabbage and Celery Salad Apricots Parisienne Coffee_

_*b.u.t.tered Beets_--Boil 1 dozen small beets in plenty of water and when tender put into cold water, slip peeling off of them, cut them in thin slices and put in saucepan with 4 tablespoons Crisco, pinch of salt and little pepper. Add before they are quite hot 1 tablespoon vinegar.

September 12

_Fish Croquettes Cuc.u.mber Puree Broiled Duckling, Apple Sauce *Fried Cauliflower Potatoes Olive Salad Omelette Souffle Coffee_

_*Fried Cauliflower_--Remove large outside leaves from cauliflower, and cut flowers from stalk in symmetrical bunches and drop in salted ice water for a few moments. Cook in scalded milk and water until tender, then drain and let cool, and rub well with melted Crisco, which has been salted and peppered. Dip into frying batter and fry in hot Crisco until golden brown, draining upon white paper.

September 13

_Clam c.o.c.ktails *Stewed Squabs Grape Jelly Potato b.a.l.l.s Green Corn Watermelon Frappe Coffee_

_*Stewed Squabs_--Cut 2 squabs into neat joints. Put 1 cup water in saucepan when it boils lay in squabs, 1 sliced onion, and 1 slice of carrot, simmer for 1-1/2 hours. Blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour, add 1 cup stock from squabs, salt and pepper to taste and boil for 5 minutes stirring all the time. Arrange the squabs on a hot dish and strain over the sauce.

September 14

_Oysters *Porterhouse Steak Scalloped Tomatoes Lima Beans Apple and Chestnut Salad Pear Sponge Coffee_

_*Porterhouse Steak_--Have large porterhouse steak well trimmed and shaped, and slit with sharp knife an opening flatwise through sirloin and tenderloin. Make forcemeat of 1 dozen olives chopped, 2 pounded anchovies, 1 chopped red pepper, salt and onion juice to taste, and 2 tablespoons melted Crisco. With this forcemeat fill smoothly cavities made in steak. Pinch steak together firmly at edges and set away on ice for 1 hour or even longer. Broil them over clear fire and serve without sauce.

September 15