A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

Cream Crisco and sugar. Sift dry ingredients and add to Crisco mixture, alternating with the milk; add nuts and vanilla extract. Beat egg whites to stiff froth and fold in at last. Turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven thirty-five minutes. Sufficient for one small cake. Simnel Cake 34 cupful sugar ¥% cupful chopped candied 34 cupful Crisco citron peel 4 eggs 2 cupfuls flour 2 cupfuls sultana raisins 1 teaspoonful baking powder 14 cupful seeded raisins ¥% teaspoonful almond extract 34 teaspoonful salt For Filling and Icing Y% |b. ground almonds 2 eggs 2 cupfuls powdered sugar 1 teaspoonful almond extract For cake. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, flour, baking powder, salt, almond extract, raisins, and peel. Make filling Cakes by mixing almonds with powdered sugar, eggs well beaten and almond extract. Line Criscoed cake tin with paper and place in half of cake mixture, then put in layer of filling, then remaining half of cake mixture. Bake in moderate oven. When cake 1s nearly baked, place remaining almond paste on top and finish baking. Cake takes from one hour to one and a quarter hours. Sufficient for medium-sized cake. Southern Fruit Cake 1 cupful sugar 3 eggs 1 cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful powdered 1 cupful molasses cinnamon ¥% cupful sour cream 1 cupful seeded raisins 3 cupfuls flour ¥% cupful currants 1 teaspoonful salt % teaspoonful grated nutmeg Y% teaspoonful baking soda ¥% teaspoonful powdered cloves ¥% teaspoonful powdered allspice Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, then add molasses, cream, flour, soda, eggs well beaten, salt, spices, and fruit. Mix well and turn into Criscoed and papered cake tin and bake in slow oven one and a half hours. Sufficient for one large cake. The Wholesome Parkin 1 cupful flour 1 egg ¥% cupful melted Crisco 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger 2 cupfuls fine oatmeal 1% teaspoonful powdered allspice 34 cupful molasses ¥% teaspoonful powdered 3 tablespoonfuls sugar cinnamon Y% teaspoonful salt ¥% teaspoonful baking soda Melt Crisco and mix with molasses, then add sugar, egg well beaten, salt, soda, spices, flour, and oatmeal. Mix and pour into small square Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven thirty-five minutes. This little cake is excellent when a week old. _ Sufficient for one small cake. Whole Wheat Gingerbread 4 tablespoonfuls sugar ¥% cupful seeded raisins Y% cupful Crisco ¥% teaspoonful salt 2 eggs 1% cupfuls molasses 1 teaspoonful baking soda ¥% cupful chopped nut meats Y% cupful milk 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger 2 cupfuls flour ¥% teaspoonful powdered mace 2 cupfuls whole wheat flour 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon 3 tablespoonfuls chopped candied lemon peel Mix flours, then add peel, raisins, nuts, spices, and salt. Melt Crisco, molasses, and sugar, then cool, and add them with eggs well beaten, with soda mixed with milk. Mix well and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin. Bake in moderate oven one hour. Sufficient for one large cake of gingerbread. [illustration: page 32] THE VEGETARIAN DINNER MENUS VEN those who are by no means decided vegetarians may be glad to pass over a dinner occasionally without meat. It is perhaps not too much to say that every housekeeper ought to be able to provide a meal without the aid of meat. We do not mean by this simply the cooking of vegetables or the preparations of puddings, but the presentation of dishes intended to take the place of flesh, such as soups and broths made without meat, vegetable stews, lentil fritters and other healthful and nutritious dishes. A vegetarian menu is not so simple as it sounds. It requires knowledge and discrimination on the housekeeper’s part to serve a solid meal without flesh or fowl.