September 25

Broiled Butterfish German Fried Potatoes Cucumber Salad Cheese Balls *Bread Pudding with Cherries Coffee

Bread Pudding with Cherries_—­Soak 1/2 pound bread in cold water till soft.  Press out water and beat out any lumps with fork.  Add 2 tablespoons Crisco, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 1/4 pound glace cherries and 1 teaspoon baking powder.  Mix well, and add 1 well-beaten egg and 3 tablespoons milk.  Put into Criscoed basin and cover with Criscoed paper, and steam for 1-1/2 hours.

September 26

Veal Cutlets Sliced Lemon Baked Cucumbers Lyonnaise Potatoes Red Pepper Salad *Amber Pudding Coffee

Amber Pudding_—­Peel, core, and quarter 8 apples.  Put 3 tablespoons Crisco in a pan, when warm add apples, 3 tablespoons sugar, grated rind 1 lemon, and stew slowly till soft, then rub through a sieve.  Add yolks of 3 eggs, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.  Roll out Crisco pastry thinly, cut off a strip and press it on to the edge of a wet pudding dish.  Put apple mixture into dish and bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven.  Beat up whites of eggs with 1/2 teaspoon salt, to stiff froth, add 2 teaspoons sugar and 2 drops vanilla.  Heap this meringue all over apple mixture.  Dust with sugar and place here and there a glace cherry.  Replace in oven to brown slightly.

September 27

Pot Roast of Beef, Gravy Parsnips Boiled Potatoes Stuffed Cucumber Salad *Conservative Pudding Coffee

Conservative Pudding_—­The weight of 3 eggs in Crisco, sugar, and flour.  Beat Crisco and sugar to a cream, add flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and mix slowly with eggs.  Add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract and mix all well.  Ornament a Criscoed mold with raisins, pour in mixture, steam 2 hours and serve hot with milk.

September 28

Pea Soup Boiled Tripe, Cream Sauce Stewed Celery Mashed Potatoes Beet Salad Meringues with Sliced Peaches *Almond Fingers Coffee

Almond Fingers_—­2 cups flour, 1/2 cup Crisco, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder.  Rub Crisco into flour, add sugar and baking powder.  Make into stiff paste with egg.  Roll out and cut into fingers.  Chop 1 cup almonds and mix with 1/2 cup sifted sugar, and white of 1 egg.  Spread on fingers and bake quickly a light brown color.

September 29