co. Serve with tomato sauce.
April 26
_Mushroom Canapes
*Chicken, a la King
Potato Croquettes
Tomato Mayonnaise
Cheese-Drops
Washington Pie
Coffee_
_*Chicken, a la King_--1/2 boiled chicken (one pint in thick pieces),
2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 fresh mushrooms, 1 cup cream, 1/2 cup sherry
wine, yolks 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 green pepper and 1 red pepper,
cut in long thin strips. Melt Crisco, add mushrooms, cook 5 minutes.
Add chicken, heat through, add salt, wine and the strips of peppers.
(The chicken should be removed from bone in long thick pieces.) Beat
yolks until light, add cream, cook over boiling water or in chafing
dish, stirring constantly until thickened, about 1-1/2 minutes; then
pour over hot chicken mixture and serve at once on toast.
April 27
_Fried Trout
Radishes
*Grilled Chickens
Glazed New Potatoes
Broiled Tomatoes
Stuffed Cucumber Salad
Cheese Sticks
Roman Cream
Coffee_
_*Grilled Chickens_--Have small spring chickens, clean and wipe
well, and split down back. Soak them for an hour in olive oil that is
seasoned with an onion, sliced, some salt, pepper, parsley and lemon
juice. Lift them from this dressing, and without wiping at all, but
sprinkling over them a little flour, set to broil over a clear fire.
Melt 4 tablespoons Crisco, add to it juice of 1 lemon, glass of
Madeira and tablespoon cooked ham chopped as finely as it is possible
to get it. Have this sauce hot, and put over chickens when taking them
up.
April 28
_Clam Cocktail
Shad, Stuffed and Baked,
Brown Butter Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Beets Stuffed with Peppers
*Caramel Custard
Coffee_
_*Caramel Custard_--1 eggs and 1 yolk, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 pint milk,
and 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Have plain tin pudding mold, put 3
tablespoons sugar into small saucepan and stir till it becomes quite
brown like coffee. Pour this into mold and run it all over bottom of
it. Crisco then sides of mold, beat eggs and sugar together till mixed
well, then add milk and flavoring. Pour all into prepared mold, cover
with piece of Criscoed paper; have stewpan with an inch of boiling
water in it; put saucer or something flat in bottom of it, set pudding
tin on this, and cover pan with lid. Let steam slowly for at least 1
hour. It must not boil, but be set on part of stove where it will keep
hot without boiling. Turn out and serve hot or cold.
Vegetarian
April 29
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