e cut into rounds. Cook ten minutes without
lifting cover. Serve meat in center of platter, dumplings at ends
and sauce, thickened, if needed, with flour and water, over whole.
Dumplings may be steamed 15 minutes over saucepan boiling water. This
is usually preferable, to avoid removing them from fire until instant
of serving. Beaten yolks of 2 eggs, diluted with 1/2 cup cream and
added to sauce, gives a richer dish.

Biscuit mixture is made as follows: Sift 1 quart good flour, 2
teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt, putting it through
sifter 2 or 3 times. Rub into flour 1 large tablespoon Crisco and add
sufficient sweet milk to make dough as soft as can be rolled and cut.
Roll about 3/4 inch thick, cut with round biscuit cutter.

April 3

_Crecy Soup
Mutton Cutlets
Savory Lentils
Roast Pigeons
Chipped Potatoes
Egg and Lettuce Mayonnaise
*Apricot Fritters, Vanilla Sauce
Coffee_

_*Apricot Fritters_--6 apricots, 1/2 pint syrup, half lemon,
frying-batter, Crisco and vanilla sauce.

Select firm, ripe apricots, or preserved ones can be used, cut them
in halves, and take out stones. Stew them gently in syrup with grated
rind of 1/2 lemon. When they are tender, drain well, and let them
cool. Have ready some frying-batter, dip apricots into it, then fry in
plenty of hot Crisco. When a nice golden color, take them up, drain on
paper, dish up on a napkin and serve with vanilla sauce.

April 4

_Brown Soup
Mousse of Ham
Veal Olives
Mashed Potatoes
Spinach
Pear Salad
Cheese Ramekins
*Rice Souffle
Fruit Custards
Coffee_

_*Rice Souffle_--4 tablespoons ground rice stirred to smooth paste
with 1/2 tablespoon Crisco and 6 tablespoons milk. Add remainder of a
pint of milk, and put all into a saucepan, and stir till it thickens.
Add beaten yolks 4 eggs and 2 tablespoons sugar well stirred, also
add the well whisked whites of 4 eggs. Mix all thoroughly, place in a
Criscoed souffle dish, and bake for 1/2 hour. Serve instantly.

April 5

_*White Soup
Fried Fillets of Haddock
Roast Chicken, Bread Sauce
Potato Chips
Brussels Sprouts
Cress and Orange Salad
Iced Castle Puddings
Coffee_

_*White Soup_--2 small onions, 1 turnip, 1 pound potatoes, 1 stalk
celery, 2 small parsnips or artichokes, 3 pints water, 1/2 pint milk,
1 tablespoon flour or cornstarch, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and salt to
taste.

Cut about 2 pounds of any white vegetables, p