A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

Crisco creamed with % cup brown sugar, add 4 tablespoons chopped citron peel, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice mixed together. Mix 2 tablespoons sugar with % cup water and brush over apples; sprinkle with crumbs browned in hot Crisco; bake for 20 minutes in moderate oven. Serve cold with custard. A Calendar of Dinners December 27 *Terrapin, ala Maryland Saratoga Chips Roasted Capon, Oyster Sauce Sweet Potatoes Stewed Celery Apple and Cabbage Salad Hamburg Cream Coffee *Terrapin, a la Maryland—Put terrapin in kettle, cover with boiling salted water, add 2 slices each carrot and onion, and | stalk celery. Cook till meat is tender. Remove from water, cool, draw out nails from feet, cut under shell close to upper shell and remove. Empty upper shell, remove and discard gall bladder, sand bags and thick intestines. Livér, small intestines are used with meat. Add terrapin meat to 34 cup white stock, 2 tablespoons wine; cook slowly ‘until liquor is reduced half. Add liver separated in pieces, 2 yolks of eggs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste, 1 tablespoon flour mixed with % cup cream, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Make hot and just before serving add 1 tablespoon sherry wine. Turn into hot dish and garnish with toast points. December 28 *Belgian Hare, en Casserole Scalloped Potatoes Braised Celery Pineapple and Celery Salad Lemon Pudding, Caramel Sauce Coffee *Belsian Hare, en Casserole—Separate hare into joints; season with salt, paprika and red pepper, and saute in % cup Crisco with 2 slices of bacon cut in dice to golden brown. Put hare in casserole with 1 cup hot water and put on cover. Bake 30 minutes, then add 2 tablespoons Crisco rubbed into 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup water, seasoning to taste, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Cook in moderate oven for 3 hours. Send to table without removing cover. Vegetarian December 29 Nut Turkey Roast, Cranberry Jelly Creamed Onions Baked Potatoes Hubbard Squash Pineapple and Orange Salad * Pastry Fingers Lalla Rookh Coffee *Pastry Fingers—Sift % cup pastry flour, 2 cups entire wheat flour, and 1 teaspoon salt into basin, add 3 tablespoons Crisco, and % cup butter, cut them into flours with knife until finely divided. Then rub in fine with finger tips and make into stiff paste with cold water. Roll out % inch in thickness, cut in finger shape pieces, lay on Criscoed tins and bake from 7 to 10 minutes in hot oven. Cool, brush over with slightly beaten egg white, and sprinkle with salted pine nuts. Return to oven to brown nut meats. December 30 Sirloin Steak Glazed Pumpkin Marbled Potatoes _ Celery Salad © Cheese Relish *Boston Pudding Coffee *Boston Pudding—Cut 1 loaf bread into thin slices and spread with Crisco. Crisco baking dish, put into it layer bread, sprinkle over 1 tablespoon each cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg, then a layer seeded raisins, and so on till dish is full. Pour over 1 quart milk sweetened to taste, with 3 well beaten eggs, allow to soak 4 hours, then add 2 cups more milk sweetened to taste. Cover dish and bake in moderate oven 3 hours. Serve with wine sauce. December 31 Codfish, Delmonico Style Roasted Leg of Lamb *Chestnut Boulettes Baked Potato Strips Watercress and Green Pepper Salad Cherry and Almond Parfait Lady Fingers Coffee *Chestnut Boulettes—Mix together in a basin 1 cup mashed chestnuts, which have been peeled after cooking in boiling salted water, beat into this 1 tablespoon whipped cream, ¥% tablespoon Crisco, % teaspoon salt, 2 egg yolks, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon sherry wine. Cool and fold in beaten egg whites, form into small balls, dip in beaten egg, toss in crumbs and fry in hot Crisco. Drain and serve. toe Sy ay Hitahe Mading 5, nae Nir Gom rane ' SNe eT y's ge et