Grate potatoes or put them through meat chopper, add molasses, sugar,
milk, Crisco, salt, spices, and orange peel. Mix well, turn into
Criscoed fireproof dish and bake in moderate oven till firm.
Sufficient for one small pone.
Savory Lentil Dish
4 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
1 cupful lentils
1 bay leaf
3 springs parsley
1 chopped onion
Salt, pepper, and powdered mace to taste
1 cupful boiled rice
1-1/2 cupfuls highly seasoned tomato sauce
Wash lentils and soak in plenty of cold water four hours. Put into
boiling salt water, add bay leaf, parsley, seasonings and cook till
tender. Chop and fry onion in 3 tablespoonfuls of Crisco, add lentils,
rice and remainder of Crisco, stir and allow to get hot. Turn into hot
dish and pour over tomato sauce.
Stuffed Beets
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
6 beets
2 green peppers
2 tablespoonfuls breadcrumbs
1/2 teaspoonful onion juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Watercress
Select 6 smooth even-sized beets and boil in boiling salted water
until tender. Peel, remove root end and remove center, leaving shell
about half inch thick. Remove stems and seeds from peppers; cover
peppers with boiling water ten minutes. Dice them with scooped out
beet, add Crisco, breadcrumbs, and seasonings. Mix and divide into
beet shells, dot with Crisco and bake in moderate oven twenty
minutes. Serve garnished with watercress.
Sufficient for six beets.
Stuffed Eggplant
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
3 small eggplants
1/2 cupful breadcrumbs
1-1/2 cupfuls stock
1/2 cupful chopped cooked chicken or veal
1 egg
Salt, pepper, and nutmeg to taste
1/2 cupful white wine
Criscoed crumbs
1 tablespoonful flour
1 tablespoonful sherry
Cut eggplants in halves and scoop out inside, leaving shell half inch
thick. Soak 1/2 cupful breadcrumbs in 1/2 cupful stock ten minutes,
then add cooked chicken, 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco, egg,
well beaten, and seasoning of salt, pepper and nutmeg. Divide this
forcemeat into eggplants, sprinkle Criscoed crumbs on top, set them in
greased pan, pour in rest of stock and white wine and bake half hour
in moderate oven. Serve on hot dish with following sauce.
Put 1 tablespoonful Crisco and 1 tablespoonful flour into saucepan and
blend over fire, add sherry and 1 cupful liquor from pan in which they
were baked, and cook five minutes.
Sufficient for three eggplants.
Stuffed Potatoes
(_Kate B. Vaughan_)
2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
6 large potatoes
2 tablespoonfuls grated cheese
1 yolk of egg
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash six well shaped white potatoes and rub skin with Crisco. Bake
until tender, cut slice off one end, and with a teaspoon remove
all potato from shells. Mash the potato, adding Crisco, cheese,
seasonings, and egg yolk. Refill shells and bake fifteen minutes.
Serve hot on napkin.
Sufficient for six potatoes.
Viennese Carrots
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