_Shrimp Canapes
Roast Mutton, Onion Sauce
*Celeriac
Sweet Potatoes
Corn Salad
Pumpkin Pie
Coffee_
_*Celeriac_--Well wash and peel the celeriac. Cut them in quarters
and boil in boiling salted water until quite tender. Drain well and
arrange in a hot dish and pour egg sauce over them.
For egg sauce, blend 2 tablespoons Crisco with 2 tablespoons flour,
add 1 cup milk and stir till boiling, add seasoning of salt and pepper
and boil for 8 minutes, stirring all the time, then add 2 hard-cooked
eggs rubbed through a sieve, mix well and serve.
October 29
_Cream of Spinach Soup
Baked White Fish, Caper Sauce
Rice Croquettes
String Beans
Celery
Boiled Dressing
*Chestnut Tartlets
Coffee_
_*Chestnut Tartlets_--Boil and mash 1 pint chestnuts, add 1/4 cup
each creamed Crisco and cream, 1 beaten yolk, 1/4 cup powdered sugar,
little salt, and 1 1/2 cups milk. Cover inverted small tartlet tins
with Crisco pastry, bake, and fill with mixture, and bake again.
October 30
_Brussel Sprout Soup
*Rabbit, a la Marengo
Parisian Potatoes Braised Celery
Lettuce, French Dressing
Prune and Rice Meringues
Coffee_
_*Rabbit, a la Marengo_--Cut up 1 rabbit into neat joints. Melt 1/2
cup Crisco in saucepan, put in rabbit and fry it quickly till browned,
add 2 chopped small onions, and fry for a few minutes, pour off any
fat into another pan, add to rabbit 1 cup brown sauce, 2 chopped
tomatoes, 8 button mushrooms, seasoning of salt, pepper, and paprika.
Put on lid and simmer gently 1 hour. Arrange rabbit on hot dish, put
mushrooms in heaps round with thin lemon slices, season gravy and pour
it over.
Hallowe'en
October 31
_Clear Soup
*Braised Duck with Turnips
Riced Potatoes
Spinach
Orange Salad
Goblin Cakes
Nuts
Candies
Custard Souffle, Vanilla Sauce
Coffee_
_*Braised Duck with Turnips_--Wash and cut 2 carrots, 2 stalks celery,
2 turnips, 1 onion in large pieces, put them in pan on these place 4
slices ham, then 1 duck trussed for roasting, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups
water, dust nutmeg, pepper, and salt. Lay Criscoed paper over top,
then lid, and simmer 1 hour or till duck is tender.
Melt 3 tablespoons Crisco in a pan, add 1 dozen small peeled turnips
and toss till they are golden color. When duck is cooked, remove
strings and skewers. Put on hot dish, and arrange turnips round.
Season gravy and strain over duck.
November 1
_Irish Stew
Baked Rice
Lima Beans
Macedoine Salad
*Chocolate Cream Pie
Coffee_
_*Chocolate Cream Pie_--2 squares chocolate, 1/4 cup cornstarch,
1 teaspoon Crisco, 1 pint milk, 2 egg whites, 1/2 cup sugar, 3 egg
yolks, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1 tablespoon vanilla. Melt chocolate,
add sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks, salt, Crisco and milk. Cook in
double boiler till thick, stirring constantly; flavor with vanilla.
Pour into a baked pie crust shell, cover with meringue made by beating
egg whites till stiff and adding 2 tablespoons sugar; brown in oven
and serve cold.
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