A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

Vegetarian August 22 *Succotash French Fried Potatoes Tomato Jelly Salad Orange Marmalade Ice Cream Caramel Cake Coffee *Succotash—Boil 1 dozen corn for 3 minutes. Cut corn from cob, taking very small piece from top of each grain, then press out pulp. Mix this with an equal quantity of nicely cooked lima beans; add Crisco, salt and white pepper to taste; reheat and serve. ears of August 23 Fish Timbales, Cream Sauce Mashed Potatoes Stewed Okra Cucumber Salad Cheese Straws *St. Leonard's Pudding Coffee *St. Leonard's Pudding—Line edge of a pudding dish with pastry, and spread 2 tablespoons of jam in the bottom. Blend 4 tablespoons Crisco with 1% cup flour, when smooth stir in 1 cup milk, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 14 teaspoon salt, and 2 yolks of eggs, stir well together and pour over jam, bake 30 minutes. Beat up whites of eggs to a stiff froth, add 1 tablespoon sugar, and arrange roughly on the top. Place in oven until lightly browned. August 24 *Boiled Mutton, Caper Sauce Riced Potatoes String Beans Olive Salad Toasted Crackers Cheese Plum Compote Coffee *Boiled Mutton—Wipe leg of mutton, put on fire, barely covered with boiling water, and let boil about 10 minutes, then simmer until tender; season with salt when half cooked. A few slices of onion, turnip, and carrot, of 2 or 3 stalks of celery: may be added while cooking. When tender, brush over the meat with melted Crisco and_ sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. Serve with caper sauce which is made as follows: Mix 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1 tablespoon flour; add 1 cup boiling water; stir it over fire until thick; add toit 1 hard-cooked egg chopped fine and 2 tablespoons of capers. August 25 Barley Broth Mutton Souffle Sweet Corn Creamed Carrots and Peas * Peach Cobbler Coffee *Peach Cobbler—Sift 1% cups flour and 1% teaspoons baking powder. With tips of fingers work into flour 1 tablespoon Crisco, and when well mixed add % cup milk. Peel and slice 4 peaches, and mix with 34 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons melted Crisco. In bottom of baking dish invert a cup, around this arrange peaches, and over all place dough patted out to about 34 of an inch in thickness. Bake in moderate oven until crust is brown and peaches are tender. This will require about 40 minutes. The cup keeps dough from lying on fruit and becoming soaked with juice. August 26 *Beef Steak Pudding Spaghetti with Tomato Potatoes on Half Shell Green Pepper Salad Apricot Pudding Coffee *Beef Steak Pudding—Line a Criscoed basin with plain pastry. Mix together on a plate 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon salt, and % teaspoon pepper for seasoning. Cut 1 pound lean beef in thin slices, dip them in the seasoning, and place them lightly _in the basin; split 1 sheep’s kidney, skin and cut in thin slices; dip them also in the seasoning, and put them in basin, and pour over 1 cup of water for gravy. Wet the edges of the paste on basin; roll out a piece of paste large enough to cover the dish; place it on, press down at the edges, and sprinkle a little flour over top. Now dip a pudding cloth in boiling water, tie it tightly over the top, and plunge the pudding in plenty of boiling water; then boil for 3 hours. Remove the cloth, and turn the pudding out on a dish. Liver and bacon mixed, or mutton, makes a good pudding of this kind. August 27 Steamed Clams Vegetable Salad Brown Bread Sandwiches Peach Tapioca *Princess Cake Coffee