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throw away water, cover with fresh water and boil until tender; drain and press beans through colander. Rub Crisco and flour together, add cream, stir until almost boiling, then add yolks of eggs. Stir again for a minute over fire, add bean pulp and all seasonings; mix and turn out to cool. When cool, form into cylinders, dip in egg, roll in breadcrumbs and fry inhot Crisco. Serve with tomato sauce. April 26 Mushroom Canapes *Chicken, a la King Potato Croquettes Tomato Mayonnaise Cheese Drops Washington Pie Coffee *Chicken, ala King—¥ boiled chicken (one pint in thick pieces), 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 fresh mushrooms, 1 cup cream, % cup sherry wine, yolks 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 green pepper and | red pepper, cut in long thin strips. Melt Crisco, add mushrooms, cook 5 minutes. Add chicken, heat through, add salt, wine and the strips of peppers. (The chicken should be removed from bone in long thick pieces.) Beat yolks until light, add cream, cook over boiling water or in chafing dish, stirring constantly until thickened, about 1% minutes; then pour over hot chicken mixture and serve at once on toast. April 27 Fried Trout Radishes *Grilled Chickens Glazed New Potatoes Broiled Tomatoes Stuffed Cucumber Salad Cheese Sticks Roman Cream Coffee *Grilled Chickens—Have small spring chickens, clean and wipe well, and split down back. Soak them for an hour in olive oil that 1s 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 1s 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—4 eggs and 1 yolk, Y% cup sugar, | 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 Cabbage Apple and Prune Tart Coffee *Sour Cabbage—2 quarts chopped cabbage, 2 tablespoons Crisco, % 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. Wash veal and pot herbs and slice onion, put them with water, in soup kettle, on back of stove, where they will come gradually to _ boiling point. Allow to simmer 4 hours or more. Strain and set away to cool.