ipe, cut up and add with vegetables. When fried
for 7 minutes, add all ingredients except cream, simmer till soft,
then rub all through fine sieve, return to pan to reheat, and gently
add cream. Serve rice on paper mat, as croutons are served with most
soups.

May 25

_*Fish Chowder
Cucumber and Tomato Salad
Cheese Croquettes
Bakewell Pudding
Coffee_

_*Fish Chowder_--1 white fish weighing 5 pounds, 4 cups potato dice,
1/2 cup onion dice, 1/2 cup salt pork dice, salt, pepper, and red
pepper to taste, 4 cups hot water, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons
flour, 4 cups milk, and 10 buttered crackers. Remove head and skin
and cut fish into fillets. Cover head, skin and bones with cold
water; simmer 20 minutes, strain. Reserve liquor. Parboil potatoes
10 minutes. Cook onion in salt pork until yellow. Arrange in layers,
fish, potatoes, onions and salt pork; cover with water in which bones
were cooked, and simmer until potatoes are tender. Thicken milk with
Crisco and flour cooked together, combine mixtures, add seasonings,
and pour over buttered crackers which have been previously soaked in
cold milk. Do not allow onion or salt pork to burn.

May 26

_*Turnip Soup
Beefsteak and Kidney Pie
Potatoes
Peas
Lettuce Salad
Caramel Trifle
Coffee_

_*Turnip Soup_--Take 2 pounds of peeled turnips, cut into small
squares, place in a stewpan with 4 tablespoons Crisco, stir them
over a quick fire, add pinch salt, 1 tablespoon flour, add 3 pints of
stock, simmer gently for 1-1/2 hours, and pass whole through a sieve.
Put back in stewpan, and add little seasoning. Bring to boil, and just
before sending to table add 1 cup of good cream.

May 27

_Chutney Canapes
Roast Sirloin of Beef
Franconia Potatoes
Summer Squash
Olive Salad
Strawberry Ice Cream
*Genoa Cake
Coffee_

_*Genoa Cake_--1/4 pound Crisco, and 1/4 pound butter. Mix to a cream
with 1/2 pound sugar, add little mace, stir in gradually yolk of 6
eggs and 1/2 beaten whites, 10 ounces flour, beat well for 1 minute,
add 1 pound raisins, 1/4 pound citron, cut very fine, grated rind of 1
lemon, and 2 ounces chopped almonds. Mix well, add remainder of beaten
whites last. Mix well, put in pan lined with paper, sprinkle top with
chopped almonds and bake in slow oven.

May 28

_Mock Consomme
Roast Crown of Lamb, Currant Mint Sauce
Potato Balls
Peas
Asparagus on Toast
*Carrot Salad
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