A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

*Flag Cake—24 cup sugar, % cup Crisco, 24 cup milk, 124 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, % tea- spoon salt, whites of 4 eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add flour, salt, baking powder, milk, vanilla and whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Mix carefully, turn into Criscoed and floured tin and bake in moder- ate oven for 34 of an hour. Decor- ate with frosting and tiny flags. July 5 Iced Pimiento Consomme Small Tenderloins of Beef Molded Potatoes *Corn Cakes Orange, Grapefruit and Romaine Salad Cup Custards Coffee *Corn Cakes—Make a custard from 2 eggs well beaten, % cup milk, % tablespoon Crisco, and %_ table- spoon sugar; beat into this 34 of cup of canned corn. Sift together twice, 7% cup of flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, and % teaspoon salt; beat into other mixture, and drop in Criscoed muffin rings by the table- spoon; set in a Criscoed dripping pan, and bake in a moderate oven until done. July 6 Clam Bisque Lamb Chops Escalloped Corn Creamed Sweet Potatoes German Salad *Cheese Drops Strawberry Bavarian Cream Coffee *Cheese Drops—Add to 3% table- spoons flour, 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, and blend together until smooth. Remove from fire, add 4 tablespoons grated cheese, % tea- spoon salt, and a dash of red pepper. Fold in stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs, and drop from end of spoon on a Criscoed baking sheet about 1 inch apart, and bake from 12 to 14 min- utes In a moderate oven. Serve hot in folded napkin with salad course. July 7 Beef Broth with Vermicelli *Baked Bluefish Cucumbers, French Dressing Mashed Potatoes Buttered Bermuda Onions Heavenly Hash Coffee *Baked Bluefish—Select nice large bluefish, clean, and prepare it for baking. Wash it in salted water, and after drying it thoroughly, stuff with bread stuffing, and sew up open- ing and rub fish all over with salt. Then, having put small pieces of Crisco over, place in pan with enough water to cover bottom, and bake in hot oven 45 or 50 minutes. After it begins to bake, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Baste it often with liquid in pan and a little melted Crisco. When it is cooked and a nice color, remove carefully to hot plate. Do not break it. Serve with brown sauce poured round fish as garnish, or serve it in a separate dish, 194 July & Iced Bouillon Broiled Chicken Mashed Potatoes New Peas Tomato Mayonnaise *Red Raspberry Shortcake, Hot Marshmallow Sauce Coffee *Red Raspberry Shortcake—4 cups sifted flour, 3 tablespoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 table- spoons Crisco, milk, and 2 quarts red raspberries. Sift baking powder and salt with flour, rub in Crisco; then with fork stir in lightly and quickly sufficient milk to make soft dough— too soft to roll. Turn it into Criscoed tin, and bake in hot oven 30 minutes. Unmold, .and leaving it inverted, cut circle around top within | inch of edge; lift off circle of crust, and with fork pick out crumb from center, leaving about 34 of an inch of biscuit around sides. Spread inside cake with butter, fill with crushed rasp- berries, which have been standing 4% hour or more mixed with enough sugar to sweeten them. Turn off juice from berries before filling cake. Replace circle of crust, and serve with following sauce: % pound marshmallows, % cup confectioners’ sugar, and ¥% cup boiling water. Cut marshmallows in pieces and melt in double boiler. Dissolve sugar in boiling water, add to marshmallows, and stir until blended. Serve hot with shortcake. July 9 Sardines and Lemon Olives Radishes Cold Roast of Lamb, Mint Sauce Creamed Potatoes Peas Endive and Cheese Salad *Cherry Souffle Iced Tea *Cherry Souffle—4 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, % cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3 whole eggs and 1 additional white, 4 tablespoons sugar, and 4 tablespoons chopped preserved cherries. A Calendar of Dinners