1 cup molasses, 1 egg well beaten, 1 cup milk,
2 teaspoons soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water. Pour in Criscoed
mold, cover with Criscoed paper and steam 3 hours. Turn out and serve
with milk.
November 27
_Steak en Casserole
Sweet Potato Croquettes
Boiled Cauliflower
Pear and Grape Salad
Cheese Fritters
*Pineapple Souffle
Coffee_
_*Pineapple Souffle_--Cream 1-1/2 tablespoons each Crisco and flour,
add 1 cup canned grated pineapple and juice. Cook 5 minutes, remove
from fire, add little salt, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 3 beaten egg
yolks. Bake in Criscoed dish 20 minutes. Serve with following sauce:
Cook 2 tablespoons creamed Crisco in double boiler, add 2 yolks of
eggs, 1 at a time, beat, and add 4 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons
orange juice, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and 1/2 cup whipped cream. Serve
hot.
November 28
_Mock Bisque Soup
Mutton Haricot
String Beans
Fried Parsnips
Lettuce and Pepper Salad
*Apples with Red Currant Jelly
Coffee_
_*Apples with Red Currant Jelly_--6 cooking apples, 4 tablespoons
flour, 1 egg, cakecrumbs, apricot jam, 6 glace cherries, red currant
jelly, Crisco and syrup. Choose apples as much as possible same size,
peel and core them carefully, so as not to break them. Put 1 cup syrup
into stewpan or baking tin, put in apples and cook over fire or in
oven until nearly done. Baste them occasionally with syrup. Let them
get cold, then roll them in flour, brush over with beaten egg, toss
in sifted cakecrumbs, and fry in hot Crisco a golden brown. Drain on
piece of paper, fill centers with apricot jam, cut out some rounds of
red currant jelly, place 1 on top of each apple and a glace cherry on
that. Dish up and serve hot or cold. An apricot syrup should be sent
to table separately with apples.
November 29
_Smoked Salmon Toast
*Spiced Venison
Black Currant Jelly
Creamed Turnips
Grilled Sweet Potatoes
Escarole Salad
Cheese Dressing
Peach Gateau
Coffee_
_*Spiced Venison_--Rub a piece of venison with salt, pepper, vinegar,
cloves, and allspice; then put into baking pan. Pour over 1 cup melted
Crisco, add 2 sliced onions, sprig of thyme, 3 sprigs parsley, juice 1
lemon, and 1/2 pint hot water. Cover and bake in hot oven till tender.
Sprinkle with flour, add 1 glassful of sherry wine and allow to brown.
Thanksgiving Dinner
November 30
_Bisque of Oyster
Broiled Smelts
Drawn Butter
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