_Cold Sliced Corned Beef
Baked Potatoes
Jellied Vegetables
Pea Salad
*Countess Pudding
Coffee_
_*Countess Pudding_--Line small Criscoed platter with Crisco pastry.
Put 1 tablespoon Crisco in saucepan, add 1 cup milk, when warm pour
over three tablespoons chopped cocoanut, add 1 tablespoon sugar.
Allow to remain 30 minutes, add 3 yolks of eggs well beaten, and 1/2
teaspoon vanilla, pour into platter, bake 30 minutes in hot oven.
Beat up whites of eggs, add pinch salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, and 1/2
teaspoon almond extract, pile on top of pudding and sprinkle with
cocoanut. Brown in slow oven. Serve hot or cold.
Vegetarian
August 22
_*Succotash
French Fried Potatoes
Tomato Jelly Salad
Orange Marmalade Ice Cream
Caramel Cake
Coffee_
_*Succotash_--Boil 1 dozen ears of corn for 3 minutes. Cut corn from
cob, taking very small piece from top of each grain, then press out
pulp. Mix this with an equal quantity of nicely cooked lima beans; add
Crisco, salt and white pepper to taste; reheat and serve.
August 23
_Fish Timbales, Cream Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Stewed Okra
Cucumber Salad
Cheese Straws
*St. Leonard's Pudding
Coffee_
_*St. Leonard's Pudding_--Line edge of a pudding dish with pastry, and
spread 2 tablespoons of jam in the bottom. Blend 4 tablespoons Crisco
with 1/2 cup flour, when smooth stir in 1 cup milk, 4 tablespoons
sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 2 yolks of
eggs, stir well together and pour over jam, bake 30 minutes. Beat up
whites of eggs to a stiff froth, add 1 tablespoon sugar, and arrange
roughly on the top. Place in oven until lightly browned.
August 24
_*Boiled Mutton, Caper Sauce
Riced Potatoes
String Beans
Olive Salad
Toasted Crackers
Cheese
Plum Compote
Coffee_
_*Boiled Mutton_--Wipe leg of mutton, put on fire, barely covered
with boiling water, and let boil about 10 minutes, then simmer until
tender; season with salt when half cooked. A few slices of onion,
turnip, and carrot, or 2 or 3 stalks of celery, may be added while
cooking. When tender, brush over the meat with melted Crisco and
sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. Serve with caper sauce which is
made as follows: Mix 2 tablespoons Crisco with 1 tablespoon flour;
add 1 cup boiling water; stir it over fire until thick; add to it 1
hard-cooked egg chopped fine and 2 tablespoons of capers.
August 25
_Barley Broth
Mutton Souffle
Sweet Corn
Creamed Carrots and Peas
*Peach Cobbler
Coffee_
_*Peach Cobbler_--Sift 1-1/2 cups flour and 1-1/2 teaspoons baking
powder. With tips of fingers work into flour 1 tablespoon Crisco, and
when well mixed add 1/2 cup milk.
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