_*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 _Cream of Salsify Soup Nut Sausage, Brown Sauce Grilled Sweet Potatoes *Sour German Cabbage Apple and Prune Tart Coffee_ _*Sour German Cabbage_--2 quarts chopped cabbage, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. Soak cabbage in cold water for 1 hour; drain; place it in an uncovered kettle of boiling salted water, cook 20 minutes; drain and return to kettle. Add vinegar, bring cabbage to boiling-point and cook 5 minutes. Add Crisco, salt and pepper to taste. April 30 _*Pepper Pot Mutton Cutlets, Tomato Sauce New Potatoes Lima Beans Sliced Tomato Salad Cheese Fingers Violet Mousse Coffee_ _*Pepper Pot_--A small knuckle of veal, 1 pound cooked tripe, 1 onion, 2 medium-sized potatoes, 1 bunch pot herbs, 1 cup Crisco, 3 quarts cold water.