flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and 3 stiffly beaten
egg whites. Mix and divide into small Criscoed molds, cover with
Criscoed papers, and steam 35 minutes. Turn out, sprinkle with
powdered sugar, garnish with candied cherries and pineapple and serve
with custard sauce made with egg yolks.
February 9
_Petite Marmite
*Goulash of Veal
Cauliflower, Cream Sauce
Braised Endive
Orange Salad
Mousseline Pudding
Coffee_
_*Goulash of Veal_--1-1/2 pounds lean veal, 1 pound partly cooked
new potatoes, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 small onion, 1/2 pint cream,
paprika, pepper, and salt. Free meat from skin and sinews and cut it
into dice. Cut potatoes into cubes. Melt Crisco in saucepan, add meat
and fry lightly for several minutes, add onion, finely chopped, stir
over fire for about 5 minutes, season with salt and pepper to taste
and add potatoes. Pour off superfluous fat, mix carefully and
moisten with cream and 1 tablespoon rich white stock, season with
a sufficiency of paprika pepper to give sauce a pink tint, and cook
gently for 20 minutes. It is best to cook the Goulash at latter stage
in a fireproof earthenware stewpan, in which it should be sent to
table. Great care must be taken so as not to break potatoes while
cooking. Serve very hot.
February 10
_Broiled Beefsteak
Baked Potatoes
Creamed Onions
Waldorf Salad
Jellied Figs
Nut Cookies
Coffee_
_*Waldorf Salad_--1 quart chopped apples, 2 cups diced celery, 1-1/2
cups blanched and shredded almonds, and 2/3 cup rolled pecan nut
meats.
Dress with following dressing, adding little more sugar and lemon
juice to taste, just before serving. Mix 1 tablespoon melted Crisco,
1 teaspoon each mustard and white sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4
teaspoon pepper. Add 2 well beaten egg yolks and then beat in slowly 4
tablespoons lemon juice. Cook in double boiler till it thickens. Then
add whites 2 eggs beaten stiff. Keep on ice till wanted. Stir in 1 cup
whipped cream just before serving. This is very good made with 5 egg
yolks and 1/2 cup thin cream if whipping cream is unobtainable.
February 11
_Cream Soup
Flounder au Gratin
Veal Cutlets, Brown Gravy
Creamed Potatoes
Cauliflower Polonaise
Radish Salad
*Friar's Omelet
Coffee_
_*Friar's Omelet_--Peel and core 1 pound cooking apples, and boil to
pulp with little water and sugar. When nearly, cold add 1 tablespoon
Crisco and 1 or 2 well beaten eggs.
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