Mix with mashed potatoes a few spoonfuls of flour, a little salt and baking powder in the proportion of half a teaspoonful to ½ a cupful of flour. Use only sufficient flour to roll out in a ½ inch sheet. Cut into circles the size of a saucer, lay on each a spoonful of seasoned meat, fold over and pinch the edges together. Lay on a greased pan, brush each with milk and bake brown in a hot oven.—From "Table Talk," Phila.

2.—Browned Potato Puree.

Put 3 tablespoonfuls of good dripping into your soup-kettle and fry in it 1 dozen potatoes which have been pared, quartered, and laid in cold water for an hour. With them should go into the boiling fat a large, sliced onion. Cook fast but do not let them scorch. When they are browned add two quarts of boiling water, cover the pot, and simmer until the potatoes are soft and broken. Rub through a colander back into the kettle and stir in a great spoonful of butter rolled in browned flour, a tablespoonful of browned parsley, salt and pepper to taste. In another saucepan make a sugarless custard of a cup of boiling milk and 2 well-beaten eggs; take from the fire and beat fast for 1 minute, put into a heated tureen, beat in the potato and serve.—From "The National Cook Book," by Marion Harland and Christine Terhune Herrick.

3.—Buttered Lobster.

Mince fine the meat of a boiled lobster, mix the coral with it, and the green fat, 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, ¼ of a lb. of butter and a saltspoon each of cayenne and made mustard. Let all get very hot. Serve on a hot dish with lettuce leaves and hard boiled egg.

4.—Tomato Croutes.

Take small tomatoes, scald and peel them, then cut a slice from the stem end. Place them, the cut side down, on slices of buttered bread, put them in a buttered baking tin, season with salt and pepper, bake ½ an hour. Serve with cold roast beef.

5.—English Monkey.

Soak 1 cup of stale bread crumbs in 1 cup of milk for 15 minutes. Into a saucepan put 1 teaspoonful of butter and ½ cup cream cheese, melt and add the crumbs, also a well-beaten egg, ½ teaspoonful salt and a pinch of cayenne. Cook for 3 minutes and pour it on toasted crackers.

6.—Shad Roe Croquettes.

Boil the roe for 15 minutes in salted water; then drain and mash. Mix 4 tablespoonfuls each of butter and corn-starch and stir into a pint of boiling milk. Add to this the roe and 1 teaspoonful of salt, the juice of a lemon, cayenne and a grating of nutmeg. Boil up once and let get cold. Shape into croquettes and fry.

7.—Cerkestal (Turkish).

Take pieces of cold chicken. Make a sauce with 1 onion, sliced, 6 walnuts, chopped, ½ cup stock, cayenne and salt. Cook the chicken in this and when hot take it out and thicken the gravy with a little flour.

8.—Squash Bread.

Take 1 cup of stewed and strained squash, add to it 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar and 1 teaspoonful of salt; melt 1 tablespoonful of butter in 1½ cups of scalded milk, and when lukewarm, add ½ cup yeast, and flour enough to knead; knead ¼ hour, let rise until light; knead again and put it into greased tins, let rise again and bake.

9.—Fried Whitebait.

Clean, wash and wipe dry, season with salt, roll in flour and fry in hot fat. Melt 1 tablespoonful of butter, add a squeeze of lemon juice and a little chopped parsley, pour this over the fish and serve.

10.—Zephyrs.

Whip ¼ of a pt. of cream. Dissolve 1 good tablespoonful of gelatine in ½ a pt. of milk. Warm the milk in which the gelatine is dissolved, add 2 ozs. of grated Parmesan cheese. Stir on the fire for a few moments, take it off, season with pepper and salt, add the whipped cream, pour into small moulds and let it set. When cold turn out and garnish with aspic cut into dice.

11.—Spider Cake.

Beat 2 eggs very light, add 1 cup sour milk and 1 cup of sweet milk; stir into this 2 cups corn-meal and ½ cup of flour, 1 tablespoonful of sugar and 1 teaspoonful each of salt and soda. Mix, and heat thoroughly, and then pour it into the spider; pour over it 1 cup of sweet milk, but do not stir it into the batter. Bake in a hot oven ½ an hour. Slip it carefully onto a platter and serve at once.

12.—Hungarian Patties.

Make a paste with ½ a lb. of flour, ¼ of a lb. of lard, the yolk of 1 egg, ½ a teaspoonful of lemon juice, and ½ a teaspoonful of baking powder. Line some patty pans with this paste and fill with the following mixture. Mince 2 ozs. of chicken and 6 mushrooms, and an anchovy, season with cayenne, salt, and a little lemon peel. Mix enough white sauce with this, put into the patty pans, cover with paste, brush them over with an egg, bake in a hot oven.

13.—Clam Pie, No. 2.

Put the required number of small, soft-shell clams into a saucepan, and bring to a boil, in their own liquor. Cut cold boiled potatoes into small cubes. Line a pudding-dish with pie-crust around the sides, and put a tea-cup in the centre of the dish to support the top crust when it is added. Put a layer of clams, then the potatoes, salt and pepper, and bits of butter; dredge with flour when all the clams and potatoes are used. Add the liquor and a little water if necessary. Put on the top crust, cutting several slits in it for the steam to escape. Bake 45 minutes.

14.—Broiled Live Lobster.

Kill the lobster by inserting a sharp knife in its back between the body and tail shells cutting the spinal cord. Split the shell the entire length of the back, remove the stomach and intestinal canal, crack the large claws and lay the fish as flat as possible. Brush the meat with melted butter, season with salt and pepper, place in a broiler, and with the flesh side down, cover and broil slowly until a delicate brown, about 20 minutes. Turn the broiler and broil 10 minutes longer. Serve hot, with a sauce of melted butter.

15.—Cheese Fondu, No. 2.

One cup of bread-crumbs very fine and dry, 2 scant cups of fresh milk, ½ a lb. of grated cheese, 3 eggs beaten very light, a small spoonful of melted butter, pepper and salt, a pinch of soda dissolved in hot water and stirred into the milk. Soak the crumbs in the milk, beat into these the eggs, and butter a baking dish. Pour the fondu into it, then sprinkle crumbs over the top. Bake in rather a quick oven until a delicate brown. Serve at once, as it will fall.

16.—Mutton Custard.

Fill a buttered custard cup lightly with stale bread-crumbs (centre of the loaf), and cooked mutton (chicken is more dainty), finely chopped. Beat an egg, add ½ a cup of milk, and a few grains of salt; pour the mixture over the bread and meat. Bake in a pan of hot water, or cook on the top of the stove, until the egg is lightly set. Do not allow the water about the egg to boil.—Janet M. Hill, in "Boston Cooking School Magazine."

17.—Grape Fruit Salad.

Cut a grape-fruit in half, and scoop out the pulp in as large pieces as possible, and lay them on lettuce leaves. Make a dressing with two tablespoonfuls of sherry wine, and sugar to taste.

18.—Asparagus in Rolls.

Cut off the tips of a well-boiled bunch of asparagus, mix with a thick cream sauce, season well, and fill with this the crusts of baker's rolls.

19.—Walnut Salad, No. 1.

Crack and parboil ½ a lb. of English walnuts, rub off the brown skin and when cold serve on lettuce leaves, with a French dressing.

20.—Oatmeal Bread.

Boil 2 cups of oatmeal as for porridge, add ½ teaspoonful salt, and when cool, ½ cup molasses, and ½ a yeast cake; stir in enough wheat flour to make as stiff as it can be stirred with a spoon; put it into 2 well-greased tin pans and let stand in a warm place until very light; bake about an hour and a quarter. Do not cut until the next day.

21.—Kidney Omelet.

Take 3 eggs, 1 kidney, 2½ ozs. of butter; skin the kidney and cut it very small, fry it in some of the butter until cooked. Mix 3 eggs, beating yolks and whites separately, add salt and cayenne, and the kidney, melt the butter in the pan and fry the omelet until done, turn and serve.

22.—Deviled Cheese.

Melt in a saucepan ½ a lb. of dairy cheese, add ¼ of a cupful of cream or milk, a small piece of butter, 1 beaten egg, 1 teaspoonful Worcestershire sauce, a tablespoonful finely chopped cucumber pickle; season highly with salt and cayenne. Melt the cheese over hot water and stir all the ingredients until thick and smooth. Serve at once on buttered toast.

23.—Veal and Ham Pates.

Mince cold cooked veal and ham in the proportion of 2/3 veal and 1/3 ham. A few mushrooms are a pleasing addition. To each cup of the mixture allow a tablespoonful of fine crumbs; season highly with salt, a dash of cayenne, a little lemon juice, and a teaspoonful of catsup. Wet up with stock, or butter and water, and heat in a vessel set in another of hot water, to a smoking boil. Take from the fire, stir in a beaten egg and a glass of sherry, and fill in shells of pastry that have been baked empty. The shells should be hot when the mince goes in. Set in the oven for 2 or 3 minutes, but the mixture must not cook.—From "The National Cook Book," by Marion Harland and Christine Terhune Herrick.

24.—Asparagus Salad.

Boil a bunch of asparagus in rapid boiling salted water. When cooked put on a dish to cool. Cut off the tender part and place four or five stalks on a large lettuce leaf. Put a teaspoonful of thick mayonnaise dressing on the end of each bunch and serve.

25.—Chicken Pie (Concord Style).

Roll puff paste ¼ of an inch thick, cut in diamond shaped pieces, chill thoroughly, and bake about 15 minutes. Put a stewed or fricasseed chicken into a serving dish, reheat the pastry and arrange on top of the chicken.—Janet M. Hill in "Boston Cooking School Magazine."

26.—Parmesan Puffs.

Put 4 ozs. of fine bread crumbs, 4 ozs. of grated Parmesan cheese, 2 ozs. of butter and a little salt and cayenne into a mortar, and pound them thoroughly. Bind the mixture together with a well-beaten egg and form into small balls, egg and bread crumb them and fry a light brown. Drain them and serve very hot.

27.—French Bean Omelet.

Cut up 2 tablespoonfuls of boiled French beans and stir them into 4 well-beaten eggs; add 2 tablespoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well, put into an omelet pan with 2 ozs. of butter, and fry until done. Serve very hot.

28.—Curry of Lobster.

Remove the meat from a 3 lbs. boiled lobster and cut into 2 inch pieces; season with salt and a little cayenne, and set away where it is cold. Heat hot in a frying pan, 3 tablespoonfuls of butter, and then add 2 of flour and 1 small teaspoonful of curry powder. Stir this until browned and then add gradually 1½ cupfuls of stock and season to taste. Add the lobster, cook 6 minutes, then pour over toast arranged on a warm dish. Garnish with parsley. If onion is liked a few slices may be fried with the butter before the flour and curry powder are added.

29.—Champignons en Caisse.

Peel and cut small 12 large mushrooms, put them into well buttered china cases. Add pepper, salt and chopped parsley.

30.—Potato and Meat Puffs.

Take 1 cup cold meat, chopped fine, and season with salt and pepper. Make a paste with 1 cup of mashed potato and 1 egg, roll out with a little flour, cut it round with a saucer, put the meat on 1 half, fold it over like a puff, pinch the edges together in scallops, fry a light brown.