A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

*Mock Duck, Rice Stuffing Buttered Beets Succotash Lettuce Salad Grape Sherbet Coffee *Mock Duck—1 cup chopped celery, 2 cups breadcrumbs, 2 cups chopped black walnut meats, 2 cups boiled rice, 6 hard-cooked eggs, 3 raw eggs, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 saltspoon pepper, and 2 tablespoons Crisco. Cook crumbs with 1 pint water for 5 minutes; add celery, hard-cooked eggs, chopped; remove from fire, add Crisco, nuts, rice and_ seasonings. Mix well with raw eggs, slightly beaten. Form into shape of duck, brush over with melted Crisco and bake 1 hour. Serve with apple sauce. September 24 Macaroni Soup Fried Scallops Tournedos, a la Bordelaise Mashed Potatoes Baked Tomatoes *Cold Slaw Queen Mab Pudding Coffee *Cold Slaw—Cut 2 cabbages very fine and put it in salad bowl. Boil 2 tablespoons vinegar. Beat up 2 eggs, add 14 cup sour cream, 2 tablespoons Crisco and add them to boiled vinegar. Stir over fire till boiling, add 1 teaspoon salt and % teaspoon pepper, pour over cabbage, and serve when very cold. September 25 Broiled Butterfish Fried Potatoes Cucumber Salad Cheese Balls *Bread Pudding with Cherries ‘ Coffee *Bread Pudding with Cherries—Soak ¥% pound bread in cold water till soft. Press out water and beat out any lumps with fork. Add 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons sugar, ¥% teaspoon vanilla extract, and %4 pound glace cherries and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Mix well, and add 1 well-beaten egg and 3 tablespoons milk. Put into Criscoed basin and cover with Criscoed paper, and steam for 1% hours. September 26 Veal Cutlets Sliced Lemon Baked Cucumbers Lyonnatse Potatoes Red Pepper Salad *Amber Pudding Coffee *Amber Pudding—Peel, core, and quarter 8 apples. Put 3 tablespoons Crisco in a pan, when warm add apples, 3 tablespoons sugar, grated rind 1 lemon, and stew slowly till soft, then rub through a sieve. Add yolks of 3 eggs, and % teaspoon cinnamon. Roll out Crisco pastry thinly, cut off a strip and press it on to the edge of a wet pudding dish. Put apple mixture into dish and bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven. Beat up whites of eggs with %4 teaspoon salt, to stiff froth, add 2 teaspoons sugar and 2 drops vanilla. Heap this meringue all over apple mixture. Dust with sugar and place here and there a glace cherry. Replace in oven to brown slightly. September 27 Pot Roast of Beef, Gravy Parsnips Boiled Potatoes Stuffed Cucumber Salad . *Conservative Pudding Coffee *Conservative Pudding—The weight of 3 eggs in Crisco, sugar, and flour. Beat Crisco and sugar to a cream, add flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and mix slowly with eggs. Add % teaspoon vanilla extract and mix all well. Ornament a Criscoed mold with raisins, pour in mixture, steam 2 hours and serve hot with milk. September 28 Pea Soup Boiled Tripe, Cream Sauce Stewed Celery Mashed Potatoes Beet Salad Meringues with Sliced Peaches * Almond Fingers Coffee *Almond Fingers—2 cups flour, % cup Crisco, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons sugar, and % teaspoon baking powder. Rub Crisco into flour, add sugar and baking powder. Make into stiff paste with egg. Roll out and cut into fingers. Chop 1 cup almonds and mix with ¥% cup sifted sugar, and white of 1 egg. Spread on fingers and bake quickly a light brown color. A Calendar of Dinners