, 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt,
2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1 teaspoon orange extract. Bake in
Criscoed and floured gem pans and serve hot with orange sauce.

For sauce. Mix 1/2 cup sugar with 2 tablespoons cornstarch, and 1/4
teaspoon salt. Add 1 cup boiling water and boil eight minutes, add
grated rinds and strained juice 2 oranges and 3 tablespoons Crisco.

October 7

_Carrot Soup
*Indian Dry Curry
Boiled Rice
Spinach
Cabbage Salad
Pineapple, Bavarian Cream
Coffee_

_*Indian Dry Curry_--2 pounds beef, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 1 onion, 2
tablespoons curry powder, 2 chopped gherkins, 1 dessertspoon chutney,
1 saltspoon salt, juice of 1/2 a lemon, and 1/2 pint thin brown sauce
or gravy.

Melt Crisco in stewpan, put in onion (sliced), and fry for a few
minutes. Then add meat, cut in small pieces, and fry all together for
about 10 minutes. Now sprinkle curry over meat, and stir contents of
saucepan over fire for another 5 minutes. The gherkins, chutney and
salt must now be added; also sauce or gravy; and stewpan must be set
over very slow fire about 1 hour; by that time meat should be quite
tender. Add lemon juice, and dish up. Serve with plainly boiled rice.

October 8

_*Fried Chicken, Swiss Style
Sweet Corn Croquettes
Broiled Tomatoes
Crab Salad
Crackers
Cheese
Coffee_

_*Fried Chicken, Swiss Style_--Cook chicken in salted water till it
is fairly tender. Take up, let get cool, and cut into neat pieces for
frying. Sprinkle these pieces with salt, pepper, and onion juice, then
moisten them well with melted Crisco. Let them stand 1 or 2 hours to
absorb flavoring of dressing, then dip in batter and drop into hot
Crisco to cook till brown. This batter make of 1 cup flour, as much
milk as is needed to have it stiff, 2 eggs, whites and yolks beaten
separately, and 1/2 cup brandy. This batter will be better for
standing, after it is mixed, for 1 hour.

October 9

_Roast Shoulder of Veal
Roasted Potatoes
Lima Beans
Pickled Plums
Romaine Salad
*Raisin Batter Pudding
Coffee_

_*Raisin Batter Pudding_--Beat up 3 eggs, sift in 2 cups flour and 1/4
teaspoon salt, add 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 cup cream, and beat for
8 minutes; then add 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1 teaspoon orange
extract. Pour into a Criscoed casserole, sprinkle over 8 tablespoons
sultana raisins, and bake in moderate oven 1 hour. Serve with maple
syrup.

October 10

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