poon vanilla
extract. Turn into Criscoed and sugared pudding dish, sprinkle 1/2 cup
sugar on top, and cover with sliced peaches. Serve cold.

August 10

_Tomato Bisque
Croutons
Potato Croquettes
Fried Egg Plant
Celery and Apple Salad
*Chocolate Pudding
Coffee_

_*Chocolate Pudding_--Crisco a mold or basin. Beat 3 tablespoons
Crisco and 2 tablespoons sugar to a cream, then beat in 3 yolks of
eggs. Dissolve 11/2 teacups grated chocolate smoothly in 1 cup milk,
add it to Crisco mixture, with 2 cups cakecrumbs, 1 teaspoon vanilla,
1/2 teaspoon salt, and whites of eggs stiffly beaten. Fold the whites
in gently. Pour into prepared mold, cover with Criscoed paper and
steam for 2 hours. Turn out and serve with white sauce. This mixture
may be placed in a Criscoed pudding dish and baked in a moderate oven.

August 11

_Fried Chicken, a la Maryland
French Fried Potatoes
*Stewed Onions
Stuffed Tomato Salad
Musk Melon with Ice Cream
Coffee_

_*Stewed Onions_--Peel onions and boil in boiling salted water till
tender. When done, drain, and turn into hot vegetable dish. Melt 2
tablespoons of Crisco in saucepan, then stir in 1 tablespoon flour,
mix well, add 1 cup milk and stir till boiling, add salt and pepper to
taste and pour over onions.

August 12

_Broiled Ham
Baked Potatoes
Green Corn Custard
Apple Salad
Grape Juice Syllabub
*Tilden Cake
Coffee_

_*Tilden Cake_--Cream 1/4 cup Crisco with 1 1/2 cups sugar, add 4 well
beaten eggs, 1 cup milk, sift in 3 cups flour, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2
cup cornstarch, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and add 2 teaspoons lemon
extract. Turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake for 1 1/2
hours in moderate oven.

August 13

_*Roast Fowl with Chestnuts and Mushrooms.
Franconia Potatoes
Shell Beans
Lettuce and Tomato Salad
Peach Short-Cake
Coffee_

_*Roast Fowl with Chestnuts and Mushrooms_--Stuff 1 large or 2 small
fowls with chestnuts or mushroom stuffing, truss it, brush with melted
Crisco, dust with salt and pepper, and put on a rack in pan and in a
hot oven until beginning to brown, reduce heat, and cook 1 or 2 hours,
basting often. Add to pan 1/2 cup hot water, 1 slice salt pork, diced,
tiny bit bay leaf, 1 clove, and sprig of parsley. If with mushrooms
pour over little sherry mixed with cream. When done place fowl on
platter, pour off all fat in pan but 3 tablespoons, add 2 tablespoons
flour a