A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

April 8 *Red Pottage Boudins of Ham with Peas Roast Ribs of Beef Yorkshire Pudding Potatoes Cauliflower Chiffonade Salad Rhubarb Tart and Custard Coffee *Red Pottage—% a pound dried beans, 1 teacup tomato puree, 1 beet, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 onions, piece of celery, 1 small piece of parsnip, 2 quarts good stock. Put Crisco in saucepan then add onions, celery and parsnip; cook a little, do not let it get very brown, then add dried beans, tomato puree; sliced beet and add pepper and salt to taste and then stock, and boil till all is tender. Rub through a fine sieve, reheat and serve. April 9 *Corn Chowder Broiled Steak Baked Potatoes Horseradish, Cream Dressing Scalloped Tomatoes Celery Salad Cherry Sponge Coffee *Corn Chowder—1 can corn, 1 cup salt pork cut in cubes, 1 cup potatoes, ¥% cup chopped onions, salt and red pepper to taste, 3 cups water, 2 cups milk, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour, and % cup crackercrumbs. Cook salt pork in frying pan for 5 minutes; add onion and cook until a yellow color. Parboil potatoes 5 minutes; add to onion with corn and water; cook 20 minutes. Thicken milk with Crisco and flour cooked together. Combine mixtures; add crackercrumbs and salt and pepper to taste, then serve. ie A Calendar of Dinners April 10 Puree of Black Beans Baked Macaroni *Potato Puff Cabbage Salad Cheese Puffs Spice Jelly, Whipped Cream Coffee *Potato Puff—Prepare 2% cups hot mashed potato. Add 3/4 cup milk, 2 well-beaten yolks of eggs, 3 tablespoons Crisco, and salt and pepper to taste. Beat this well, then add beaten whites of 2 eggs. Pile lightly in Criscoed baking dish and bake until puffed and brown. April 11 Bean Soup Globe Artichoke with Sauce Hollandaise Stuffed Peppers Potato Straws *Grilled Tomatoes Pimiento Salad Assorted Cakes Coffee *Grilled Tomatoes—Wipe tomatoes, spread little Crisco on each with a knife, and set on grill pan near to clear fire. Turn often, basting or keeping moist with Crisco. Whole tomatoes cook in 7 to 10 minutes, according to size. Sliced ones in about 5 minutes. When meat or ham is being grilled tomatoes will cook in pan underneath the grid on which meat rests. Fruit April 12 * Hollandaise Soup Escalloped Potatoes Vegetable Pie Celery Patties Romaine Salad Chocolate Tapioca Coffee * Hollandaise Soup—l1 quart vegetable stock, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 4 yolks eggs, % pint cream, % cup. green peas, cooked, 1 teaspoon salt, % cup carrot, cut in small pieces, cooked, 1 teaspoon sugar, 14 cup cut cucumber, cooked, and 1 teaspoon chopped tarragon. Trim peas, carrots and cucumbers with round cutter, size and shape of peas. Cook them in boiling water, being careful not to cook them too much. Melt Crisco and flour in stewpan; add stock and let boil well. Break yolks of eggs into a basin and add cream, then add the liaison of eggs and cream to stock; let it just come to boil, being careful it does not curdle. Strain into a clean stewpan, add vegetables which have been previously cooked, and _ tarragon and serve. 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.