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The national course in home economics

1917

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Presented as published in 1917. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
To make a unique Thanksgiving dessert, cut a small pumpkin across the top. Carefully scoop out the inside. Place on a dish and fill with Floating Island; replace the pumpkin top. Garnish the platter with generous sprigs of autumn leaves, and on these lay a variety of sliced cakes. BREAKFAST Grapes Oatmeal Country Sausages Scrambled Eggs Browned Potatoes Entire Wheat Griddle Cakes Maple Syrup Coflfee MENU 'Let us eat and be merry." — Luke iS'^3 DINNER Oysters on Half Shell Mutton Broth Celery Turkey, stuffed with oysters Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes Baked Squash Boiled Onions, with cream sauce Peach Pickles Waldorf Salad Cheese Wafers Mince Pie Pudding, Puritan styl© Nuts Fruit Coffee As this is a day of general rejoicing, see that the poor are not forgotten. Don't forget the adage, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." SUPPER Cold Roast Turkey Tea Biscuits Cottage Cheese Sweet Tomato Pickles Thanksgiving Cake Fruit Glac6 Tea Yes, Christmas day has come at last And I am glad 'tis here, For, don't you think, for this one day, I've waited just a year. I'm sure it should have come before, As sure as I'm alive; Fifty-two Sundays make a year, And I've counted seventy-five. There's one thing makes me very glad. As glad as I can be; The years grow short as we grow old, And that will just suit me. I wish 'twas Christmas every month — That's long enough to wait — BREAKFAST Oranges Germia Broiled Salt Mackerel Chipped Beef on Toast Baked Potatoes Griddle Cakes Mufi&ns CofiEee DINNER Oysters on Half Shell Cream Chicken Soup Boiled Whitefish, sauce Maitre d'H&tel Roast Goose, apple sauce Boiled Potatoes Mashed Turnips Sweet Potatoes Christmas Plum Pudding Lemon Ice Squash Pie Quince Jelly Delicate Cake Salted Almonds Fruit Coffee -88 SUPPER Cold Roast Goose Oyster Patties Cold Slaw Charlotte Russe Popovers Currant Jelly St Red heart-shaped place cards with a lovers knot of true blue at the top are suggestive and gay. MENU Orangeade "A cooling drink for lovers young and old." Consomme St. Valentine Celery Roast Goose, apple sauce Escalloped Tomatoes Onions in cream Orange Fritters Blanc Mange, with Cupid sauce Valentine Cakes. Nuts — Raisins . Heart-Shaped Confectionery Coffee (An these recipes and many more suitable for similar occasions are to be found in this book. ) 34 Washington's Birthday "Statesmen, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end. Who gained no title and who lost no friend. Ennobled by himself, by all approved." ORTUNATE is the housekeeper who has old-fashioned blue and white china and twice fortunate is she who ha? heir- looms of silver, pewter and glass. Make the decorations festive and holiday-like. Red and white carnations in a blue bowl, make a pretty centerpiece to the table, or, prettier still, is red, white and blue crinkled paper, neatly wound around ajar of green with an artistic bow at the side. If one has a Jerusalem cherry tree so much the better.