Apple and Date Salad
Cream Cheese on Toasted Crackers
*Baked Apples with Custard
Coffee_

_*Baked Apples_--Core and peel 8 apples; fill centers with 1/4 cup
Crisco creamed with 1/2 cup brown sugar, add 4 tablespoons chopped
citron peel, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice mixed together. Mix 2
tablespoons sugar with 1/2 cup water and brush over apples; sprinkle
with crumbs browned in hot Crisco; bake for 20 minutes in moderate
oven. Serve cold with custard.

December 27

_*Terrapin, a la Maryland
Saratoga Chips
Roasted Capon
Oyster Sauce
Sweet Potatoes
Stewed Celery
Apple and Cabbage Salad
Hamburg Cream
Coffee_

_*Terrapin, a la Maryland_--Put terrapin in kettle, cover with boiling
salted water, add 2 slices each carrot and onion, and 1 stalk celery.
Cook till meat is tender. Remove from water, cool, draw out nails from
feet, cut under shell close to upper shell and remove. Empty
upper shell, remove and discard gall bladder, sand bags and thick
intestines.

Liver, small intestines are used with meat. Add terrapin meat to
3/4 cup white stock, 2 tablespoons wine; cook slowly until liquor
is reduced half. Add liver separated in pieces, 2 yolks of eggs, 1
tablespoon Crisco, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste, 1 tablespoon
flour mixed with 1/2 cup cream, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Make hot
and just before serving add 1 tablespoon sherry wine. Turn into hot
dish and garnish with toast points.

December 28

_*Belgian Hare, en Casserole
Scalloped Potatoes
Braised Celery
Pineapple and Celery Salad
Lemon Pudding
Caramel Sauce
Coffee_

_*Belgian Hare, en Casserole_--Separate hare into joints; season
with salt, paprika and red pepper, and saute in 1/4 cup Crisco with
2 slices of bacon cut in dice to golden brown. Put hare in casserole
with 1 cup hot water and put on cover. Bake 30 minutes, then add
2 tablespoons Crisco rubbed into 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup water,
seasoning to taste, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Cook in moderate
oven for 3 hours. Send to table without removing cover.

Vegetarian

December 29

_Nut Turkey Roast
Cranberry Jelly
Creamed Onions
Baked Potatoes
Hubbard Squash
Pineapple and Orange Salad
*Pastry Fingers
Lalla Rookh
Coffee_

_*Pastry Fingers_--Sift 1/2 cup pastry flour, 2 cups entire wheat
flour, and 1 teaspoon salt into basin, add 3 tablespoons Crisco, and
1/2 cup butter, cut them into flours with knife un