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Marion Harris Neil's calendar of dinners — a year of menus and 615 recipes, one Crisco kitchen at a time.

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Cherry Souffle

4 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3 whole eggs and 1 additional white, 4 tablespoons sugar, and 4 tablespoons chopped preserved cherries.

Put Crisco and flour in saucepan, mix over fire, add milk, stir till it boils and becomes thick; remove from fire to cool 10 minutes, and sugar, yolks eggs, 1 by 1 stirring each thoroughly, whites stiffly beaten up, then add chopped cherries. Pour all into Criscoed souffle mold. Put into saucepan with 1/2 an inch of boiling water. Put lid on saucepan and steam gently 3/4 hour. Turn out, send to table with jam sauce round.

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