The Story of Crisco

The Story of Crisco, 1913 — how Procter & Gamble taught America a new fat, with 250 recipes and a year of dinners to seal it.

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Coffee (Ladies'Cabbage-Cutsmall hard)

*Ladies'Cabbage-Cutsmall, hard head cabbage into halves; remove core and harder portions, chop remaining part quite fine. Throw this into kettle of boiling salted water, boil uncovered for 30 minutes; drain in colander.

Put cabbage back in saucepan, add 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon flour; dust flour over cabbage; stir carefully with wooden spoon, and add ½ pint of milk, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1 saltspoon of white pepper.

Stand this on back part of stove to simmer 10 minutes; send to table.

January 24

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