Dumplings may be steamed 15 minutes over saucepan boiling water. This is usually preferable, to avoid removing them from fire until instant of serving. Beaten yolks of 2 eggs, diluted with 1/2 cup cream and added to sauce, gives a richer dish.
Biscuit mixture is made as follows: Sift 1 quart good flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt, putting it through sifter 2 or 3 times. Rub into flour 1 large tablespoon Crisco and add sufficient sweet milk to make dough as soft as can be rolled and cut.
Roll about 3/4 inch thick, cut with round biscuit cutter.
April 3
_Crecy Soup Mutton Cutlets Savory Lentils Roast Pigeons Chipped Potatoes Egg and Lettuce Mayonnaise *Apricot Fritters, Vanilla Sauce Coffee_
_*Apricot Fritters_--6 apricots, 1/2 pint syrup, half lemon, frying-batter, Crisco and vanilla sauce.
Select firm, ripe apricots, or preserved ones can be used, cut them in halves, and take out stones. Stew them gently in syrup with grated rind of 1/2 lemon. When they are tender, drain well, and let them cool. Have ready some frying-batter, dip apricots into it, then fry in plenty of hot Crisco. When a nice golden color, take them up, drain on paper, dish up on a napkin and serve with vanilla sauce.
April 4
_Brown Soup Mousse of Ham Veal Olives Mashed Potatoes Spinach Pear Salad Cheese Ramekins *Rice Souffle Fruit Custards Coffee_
_*Rice Souffle_--4 tablespoons ground rice stirred to smooth paste with 1/2 tablespoon Crisco and 6 tablespoons milk. Add remainder of a pint of milk, and put all into a saucepan, and stir till it thickens.
Add beaten yolks 4 eggs and 2 tablespoons sugar well stirred, also add the well whisked whites of 4 eggs. Mix all thoroughly, place in a Criscoed souffle dish, and bake for 1/2 hour. Serve instantly.
April 5
_*White Soup Fried Fillets of Haddock Roast Chicken, Bread Sauce Potato Chips Brussels Sprouts Cress and Orange Salad Iced Castle Puddings Coffee_
_*White Soup_--2 small onions, 1 turnip, 1 pound potatoes, 1 stalk celery, 2 small parsnips or artichokes, 3 pints water, 1/2 pint milk, 1 tablespoon flour or cornstarch, 2 tablespoons Crisco, and salt to taste.
Cut about 2 pounds of any white vegetables, previously washed and peeled, into pieces, or preferably several kinds mixed, and boil them until soft in the water with salt and Crisco. Rub them through sieve or colander, put them back in the stew pan with milk, and let boil.
Put in flour, mixed smoothly with little cold water or milk; let soup boil for 10 minutes, and then serve.
April 6
_Broiled Soft Shell Crabs *Sweetbreads with Mushroom Puree Boiled Bermuda Onions New Green Peas Lettuce and Radish Salad Fried Cornstarch Pudding Coffee_
_*Sweetbreads with Mushroom Puree_--Blanch and prepare sweetbreads, by cutting away all the windpipes and fibrous nerves. When they are quite cool, put under a weight to flatten well. Dip them in melted Crisco and broil, without browning too much, over a clear fire.
Put sweetbreads on very thin slices of round toast and serve with this puree poured over all: Chop 1 dozen fresh mushrooms and put them to cook with 1/2 pint of cream and 1/2 cup fine breadcrumbs. Cook them in double boiler till mushrooms can be pressed through rather fine sieve.
Return this puree to fire, season with salt and white pepper, and let get as hot as possible before using it for sweetbreads.
April 7
_Grilled Brook Trout *Spring Lamb Steak, a la Minute Lentil Croquettes Potato Rissoles Grapefruit Salad Cheese Crackers Golden Parfait Coffee_
_*Spring Lamb Steak, a la Minute_--Rub some fillets of spring lamb steak with salt and pepper, and fry them gently in 3 tablespoons Crisco which has been melted in an iron frying pan, until thoroughly cooked. Remove from frying pan and keep hot. Put 12 large fresh mushroom caps in pan and cook until tender, adding 1/4 cup cream and salt and pepper to taste. Put lamb steak on hot platter, garnish with mushroom caps, and pour sauce around.
April 8
_*Red Pottage Boudins of Ham with Peas Roast Ribs of Beef Yorkshire Pudding Potatoes Cauliflower Chiffonade Salad Rhubarb Tart and Custard Coffee_
_*Red Pottage_--1/2 a pound dried beans, 1 teacup tomato puree, 1 beet, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 onions, piece of celery, 1 small piece of parsnip, 2 quarts good stock. Put Crisco in saucepan then add onions, celery and parsnip; cook a little, do not let it get very brown, then add dried beans, tomato puree; sliced beet and add pepper and salt to taste and then stock, and boil till all is tender. Rub through a fine sieve, reheat and serve.
April 9
_*Corn Chowder Broiled Steak Baked Potatoes Horseradish, Cream Dressing Scalloped Tomatoes Celery Salad Cherry Sponge Coffee_
_*Corn Chowder_--1 can corn, 1 cup salt pork cut in cubes, 1 cup potatoes, 1/2 cup chopped onions, salt and red pepper to taste, 3 cups water, 2 cups milk, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour, and 1/2 cup crackercrumbs. Cook salt pork in frying pan for 5 minutes; add onion and cook until a yellow color. Parboil potatoes 5 minutes; add to onion with corn and water; cook 20 minutes. Thicken milk with Crisco and flour cooked together. Combine mixtures; add crackercrumbs and salt and pepper to taste, then serve.
April 10
_Puree of Black Beans Baked Macaroni *Potato Puff Cabbage Salad Cheese Puffs Spice Jelly, Whipped Cream Coffee_
_*Potato Puff_--Prepare 2-1/2 cups hot mashed potato. Add 3/4 cup milk, 2 well-beaten yolks of eggs, 3 tablespoons Crisco, and salt and pepper to taste. Beat this well, then add beaten whites of 2 eggs.
Pile lightly in Criscoed baking dish and bake until puffed and brown.
April 11
_Bean Soup Globe Artichoke with Sauce Hollandaise Stuffed Peppers Potato Straws *Grilled Tomatoes Pimiento Salad Fruit Assorted Cakes Coffee_
_*Grilled Tomatoes_--Wipe tomatoes, spread little Crisco on each with a knife, and set on grill pan near to clear fire. Turn often, basting or keeping moist with Crisco. Whole tomatoes cook in 7 to 10 minutes, according to size. Sliced ones in about 5 minutes. When meat or ham is being grilled tomatoes will cook in pan underneath the grid on which meat rests.
April 12
_*Hollandaise Soup Escalloped Potatoes Vegetable Pie Celery Patties Romaine Salad Chocolate Tapioca Coffee_
_*Hollandaise Soup_--1 quart vegetable stock, 4 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 4 yolks eggs, 1/2 pint cream, 1/2 cup green peas, cooked, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup carrot, cut in small pieces, cooked, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 cup cut cucumber, cooked, and 1 teaspoon chopped tarragon.
Trim peas, carrots and cucumbers with round cutter, size and shape of peas. Cook them in boiling water, being careful not to cook them too much. Melt Crisco and flour in stewpan; add stock and let boil well.
Break yolks of eggs into a basin and add cream, then add the liaison of eggs and cream to stock; let it just come to boil, being careful it does not curdle. Strain into a clean stewpan, add vegetables which have been previously cooked, and tarragon and serve.