Cut lettuce fine with scissors and shred eggs and onions. Melt Crisco, when cool, add tomato catsup, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, vinegar and salt. At serving time pour this sauce over lettuce, eggs and onions. Serve very cold in cocktail glasses.
January 17
Prune Cocktail
*Brown Fricassee of Chicken
Boiled Rice Baking Powder Biscuit
Apple and Celery Salad
Mince Pie
Coffee
*Brown Fricassee of Chicken—Draw, singe, and joint chicken. Put 4 tablespoons Crisco in saucepan; when brown, put in chicken. Stir until every piece is nicely browned, then add 2 tablespoons flour, stir again, add 1 pint boiling water or stock, stir until it boils; add 1 teaspoon of salt. Cover, and let simmer gently until tender, then add 1 teaspoon onion juice, and little black pepper. Put neck-piece, heart, liver, gizzard, and back pieces in center of dish; put 2 pieces of breast on top, second joints on one side of plate, legs crossed on other, and wing at each end of plate. Pour sauce over, sprinkle with chopped parsley, and serve.
January 18
Broiled Halibut
Maitre d'Hotel Potatoes
*Escalloped Tomatoes
Lettuce, French Dressing
Pumpkin Pie Cheese Squares
Coffee
*Escalloped Tomatoes—Drain juice from 1 can tomatoes. Brush baking dish over with Crisco, and cover bottom with tomatoes; dot with Crisco, dredge with pepper and salt, and sprinkle generously with breadcrumbs: arrange another layer of tomatoes, and crumbs, and so proceed until dish is filled. Pour over all enough of juice of tomatoes to moisten well, and then finish dish with covering of crumbs. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven.
January 19
Consomme with Vermicelli
Grated Parmesan Cheese
Fried Oysters, Sauce Tartare
*Mushrooms Cooked Under Glass Bells
Supreme of Chicken
Asparagus, Cream Glacé
Orange Ice Coffee