November 30

Bisque of Oyster Broiled Smelts Drawn Butter Roast Turkey Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes Stewed Celery Romaine Salad Roquefort Cheese *Hot Pumpkin Pie Orange Ice Coffee

Hot Pumpkin Pie_—­Line pie tin with Crisco Pastry.  Mix 2 cups steamed and strained pumpkin, with 2 teaspoons Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves, mace, allspice, and ginger, grated rind of 1 lemon, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup cream, 2 well beaten eggs, and pour into prepared pie plate.  Bake till firm in moderate oven.  Serve hot.  As a change, place on the pumpkin pie as it comes out of the oven a layer of halved marshmallows, replace in the oven and let them brown.

December 1

Oyster Bouillon *Baked Beefsteak Fried Beets Baked Potatoes Grapefruit and Endive Salad Nougat Ice Cream Coffee

Baked Beefsteak_—­Cut 2 pounds of sirloin, 1/2 inch thick.  Mix 1 cup breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1/2 tablespoon chopped onion, 1/2 teaspoon each of salt, pepper, and red pepper, 1/2 teaspoon kitchen bouquet, and moisten with stock.  Spread this over steak and roll it up, fastening with skewers or tying, and put on rack in roasting pan.  Add 1/2 cup stock, and bake 1/2 hour, basting often.  Place on hot platter, and pour around it sauce made from 2 tablespoons Crisco and 3 tablespoons flour blended together, with salt and pepper to taste, and 1-1/2 cups beef stock cooked until boiling, then strained and added to 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.

December 2

Baked Pork Spareribs Turnips Mashed Potatoes Celery and Cranberry Salad *Squash Pie Coffee

Squash Pie_—­2 cups stewed squash, 1 tablespoon melted Crisco, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 2/3 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 eggs, and 2 cups milk.  Beat eggs until light.  Place squash in quart measure, add sugar, Crisco, salt, spice, and then beaten eggs.  Stir well and add sufficient milk to make 1 quart of whole mass.  Turn into pie tin lined with Crisco pastry and bake slowly for 45 minutes.  When done a silver knife when inserted will come out from it clear.  Squash pie will become watery if allowed to boil.

December 3

Brown Fricassee of Chicken Cranberry Jelly Sweet Potatoes Boiled Onions Orange and Pineapple Salad *Farina Pudding Coffee

Farina Pudding_—­Stir into 3 cups boiling milk 1 cup farina, and cook 10 minutes.  Rub together 1 tablespoon Crisco and 2 tablespoons sugar; add yolks of 3 eggs, grated rind of 1 lemon and 25 chopped blanched almonds.  Stir this mixture into farina after it is little cooled; lastly add whites of 3 eggs beaten to stiff froth.  Steam this pudding in covered mold for 1-1/2 hours.  Serve with any sweet pudding sauce.