4th Sunday in February

Ok...I hope this works. So, I had to create the meal, but I also decided to do several short cuts. First, it called for tomato soup, which in 1913 didn't come in a can. So, I used an organic tomato bisque straight from the can and it was delicious!! The other shortcut I took was to use Crisco instead of the Cottolene that called for it to be "creamed" I don't actually know that if you whip vegetable oil if it will cream, but I'm not willing to try, either. In any case, the Crisco worked fine. The third thing that was different was that I was supposed to prepare Guinea fowl and couldn' get it. Plus, had I ordered it, it would have been $13.00 a pound!!! So we had chicken. And had I thought about it, I probably would have tried to make stuffing for them. All in all, they came out fine, but the coup de grace for this meal was the Rhubarb sauce I made for the chicken. All it was was about 8 stalks of rhubarb that I cooked down in a little water and then added some sugar so it wasn't too tart. It was GREAT! I made raw fried potatoes instead of the "potato souffles" which sounded more like home fries than anything else. The meal also called for just plain head lettuce and "french" dressing, so I made a vinaigrette which came out fine, but the modern idea of 'salad" was definitely unknown in 1913. The chocolate jumbles were a keeper and so is the orange ice that didn't freeze in time, but that I've been eating since and it's really good, but more something you might do in the hot summer than in February. All together, I spent about $100 on the meal. The rhubard was the most expensive at $6.99 a pound. We had plenty of food for 7 people, but I'm still not sure how many people the meals are meant for. Thought to self....grow some rhubarb for next year!