CRANBERRY DUMPLINGS
Chop two cups of cranberries very fine and add
One-half cup of seedless raisins,
One cup of brown sugar.
Place in the mixing bowl
One and one-half cups of flour,
One-half teaspoon of salt,
One teaspoon of baking powder.
Stiffen to mix and then rub in three tablespoons of shortening and work to a dough with one-half cup of cold water. Roll out one-quarter inch thick and spread with cranberry mixture. Roll like for jelly roll and then wrap in a pudding cloth. Plunge in a saucepan containing boiling water; cook for forty minutes and then lift and drain. Serve, cut in inch-wide slices with sweetened cranberry sauce.
Many persons like the old-fashioned idea of entertaining on New Year's Day with a real old-time dinner. An ideal number is either eight or twelve persons. Put the full quota of leaves in the dining-room table and pad it nicely. Cover with your best table cloth. A miniature tree or a bush of mistletoe or holly for a centre-piece is both seasonable and appropriate.