A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

*Onion Cocktail—2 cups diced apples, 1 cup diced onions, 1 cup seeded raisins. Fill cocktail glasses with onions, apples, raisins, pour over a sour dressing made as follows: 1% cup each of vinegar and water, | tablespoon Crisco, salt and red pepper to taste, and 2 teaspoons sugar. Place in small saucepan over fire until Crisco melts, then stir in well beaten yolks of 2 eggs, stirring constantly until thick. Place in ice box to cool before using. A Calendar of Dinners February 21 Boiled Halibut, Anchovy Butter Pigeons, ala Chasseur Griddled White Potatoes *Stewed Lettuce Oyster Salad Cheese Relish Pineapple Cream , Coffee *Stewed Letiuce—Wash the _ desired number of heads of lettuce, cutting off the stalks at the roots, and put into a saucepan with 1 onion sliced, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, and salt and pepper to taste, with a very little water, to cook slowly for 2 hours. By this time the water should have pretty well cooked away, leaving the lettuce fairly dry. Remove from it the onion and parsley, put into a dish, dress well with melted butter and send to table hot. February 22 Cherry Cocktail Olives Salted Nuts Oyster Soup Fried Chicken, Cream Gravy Peas Sweet Potatoes White Grape Salad Beaten Biscuits *Washington Pie Martha Washington Fruit Cake Fruit Punch Coffee *Washington Pie—34 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon Crisco; beat together thoroughly; add % cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 beaten eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon lemon; make into 3 cakes and put jelly or custard between. February 23 . Red Cabbage Soup *Broiled Kidneys with Green Peppers French Peas Fried Bananas Grapefruit and White Grape Salad Cheese Balls Russian Jelly Coffee *Brotled Kidneys with Green Peppers —Split some fine beef kidneys, remove the outer skin and sinews, and wipe well. Sprinkle the kidneys with pepper and salt, and let stand or an hour or more. Dip them then, into melted Crisco and broil over a clear fire. Meanwhile, chop 2 green peppers, freed from their seeds, and ry with 14 a teaspoon chopped onion and 1 tablespoon chopped parsley in Crisco till the pepper is quite done, having no more moisture, or Crisco that is in the pan, than is necessary to cook the green peppers. Dish the kidneys and surround with the sauce of green peppers. Vegetarian — February 24 Cream of Celery Soup *Mock Veal Roast Stewed Turnips Asparagus Salad Cheese Crackers Apple Pie Coffee *Mock Veal Roast—%% pint shelled roasted peanuts, % pint lentils, 2 tablespoons melted Crisco, % pint toasted breadcrumbs, milk, pepper and salt to taste. Soak the lentils over night; drain, bring them to a boil; throw away water; cover with fresh water and boil until tender; drain again; press them through a colander. Add nuts, chopped or ground, melted Crisco, breadcrumbs and_ seasoning, with sufficient milk to make it the consistency of mush. Pour into baking dish and bake in a moderate oven 1 hour. Beans or peas may be substituted for lentils. February 25 Clam Broth with Whipped Cream Boiled Fish Dressed Cucumbers Panned Chicken Riced Potatoes *StuffedGreen Peppers Celery and Lettuce Salad Caramel Rice Pudding Coffee *Stuffed Green Peppers—6 large green peppers, 1 pint boiled rice, 1 tomato, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 medium-sized onion, and | teaspoon salt. Cut the tops from peppers and remove seeds. Add to rice the onion and tomato, chopped and salt. Wash peppers, stuff them with boiled rice, put on tops and stand them in a baking pan. Cover bottom of baking pan with a little water; add to it the Crisco. Bake in a quick oven 20 minutes, basting 2 or 3 times. February 26 Cream of Beet Soup Pork Tenderloins, Apple Sauce Baked and Glazed Potatoes Buttered Parsnips *Raisin Pudding, Liquid Sauce Coffee