Four mashed potatoes, season highly with pepper and salt, butter and chopped parsley. Beat very well. Roll into balls, egg and bread crumb them and fry in boiling lard.

2.—Brown Apple Sauce for Cold Pork.

Put ½ a pt. of gravy in a saucepan with 5 pared, cored and quartered apples. Simmer gently, until tender; beat to a pulp, season with cayenne and serve with cold roast pork.

3.—Cod Cutlets.

Make the following sauce and simmer the fish cutlets in it. One cupful of stock, pepper, salt, parsley, onion, a little lemon juice and a glass of sherry. Thicken with browned flour. Heat the cutlets slowly, do not let them boil.

4.—Crumb Griddle Cakes.

Put a large cup of bread crumbs to soak in a qt. of sour milk over night; in the morning rub through a sieve. Add the yokes of 4 eggs, well beaten, 2 teaspoonfuls of soda dissolved in a little water, 1 tablespoonful melted butter, and enough corn-meal to make it the consistency of ordinary griddle cakes. Add the whites of the eggs just before frying.

5.—Fillets of Weakfish.

Take a three lb. fish, cut off the head and tail, split the fish through the back and take out the bone, cut these two pieces into four or six, season with salt and pepper. Dip each piece into melted butter, then roll in crumbs and broil on both sides. Serve with tartare sauce.

6.—Celery Sandwiches.

Chop very fine a few stalks of celery, mix well with a mayonnaise dressing, spread on buttered bread, put two together; press and cut in any shape desired.

7.—Cheese Fritters.

One oz. of well boiled macaroni, cut very small, 1 large tablespoonful of grated cheese, 1 of cream; mix all together. Season with pepper and salt. Roll out puff paste very thin, cut into rounds, place some of this mixture on each round, double them over, egg and vermicelli them, fry a light brown. Serve hot.

8.—Veal Salad.

Chop cold veal very fine, season, mix well with mayonnaise dressing. Heap on lettuce leaves. Garnish with slices of hard boiled egg.

9.—Fish and Rice.

Bone and flake cold fish; season with salt and cayenne pepper. Stir in a stewpan with a good piece of fresh butter. When hot add a teacupful of ready boiled rice, and the yolks of 4 hard boiled eggs. Stir well together until hot. Dish and serve with pickles.

10.—Curry of Macaroni.

Melt 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, cook in it 2 slices of onion until the onion becomes of a pale straw color, then add two tablespoonfuls of flour, 1 tablespoonful of curry powder, ¼ teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper. When blended with the butter, add gradually 1 cup of milk and stir until smooth and boiling. Then strain over 1 cup of macaroni, cooked until tender in boiling salted water and then drained and rinsed in cold water. Reheat and serve.—Janet M. Hill in "Boston Cooking School Magazine."

11.—Oyster Canapes.

Into a saucepan put 1 dozen finely chopped oysters, a teaspoonful of cracker dust, a tablespoonful of butter and ½ a cup of milk, season with salt and pepper. Stir and let the mixture simmer for a few minutes; pour the mixture over buttered toast and serve.

12.—Dried Apple Cake.

Soak 3 cups of dried apples over night; drain the water off and cut them up a little and put them over the fire with 2 cups of molasses; boil until thick; take off the fire and put into a bowl. Add a cup of shortening, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, dessertspoonful of cloves, the same of allspice, a cup of sweet milk; when cold a tablespoonful of soda, dissolved in hot water, 4 cups of flour, added by degrees, 3 eggs well beaten, added last. Grease 3 pans well and bake.

13.—Vegetable Soup.

Cut fine 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 3 stalks of celery and half an onion; cook ten minutes in 4 tablespoonfuls of butter, stirring constantly. Add 1 cup of chopped potatoes, cover and cook five minutes, then add a qt. of boiling water and cook an hour. Mash the vegetables, add a tablespoonful of butter and a little chopped parsley. Season with salt and pepper.

14.—Beef Salad.

Chop very fine slices of cold roast beef, having first removed all fat; add six finely chopped cold potatoes, the same quantity of beets, a few slices of tomatoes, a few leaves of lettuce, a small bunch of parsley. Mix thoroughly, and chop all together, until the whole is almost reduced to a cream. Cover with a rich mayonnaise. Garnish with slices of tomato and lettuce leaves.

15.—Corn-starch Cake.

Beat well the whites of 4 eggs, beat the yolks, then beat them together. Cream a ¼ of a lb. of butter. Add to it gradually ½ a lb. of granulated sugar and beat until light, then add the eggs and beat again. Mix 2 ozs. of corn-starch with a quarter of a lb. of wheat flour; add a teaspoonful of baking powder and sift, stir this into the cake. Add the grated rind of ½ a lemon, bake in greased gem pans in a moderate oven 15 minutes.

16.—Fried Celery.

Cut it into inch lengths and boil until tender in slightly salted water, dip the pieces in fritter batter and fry in smoking hot fat. Garnish with parsley and serve with tomato sauce.

17.—Beef a la Mode.

Take a round of beef, trim off the fat, cut fat bacon into strips and roll them in a mixture of sweet herbs, spice, salt and pepper. Lard the meat with these and rub the rest of the seasoning into the meat. Flour it, put in a deep pan, add a pt. of water and bake in a moderate oven. Baste often. Strain the gravy and if you like a little cooking wine may be added to the gravy. Serve hot or cold.

18.—Potato Chowder.

Pare and chop into dice 6 potatoes. Put into a frying pan 1 chopped onion and 2 slices of bacon cut into small pieces, fry until a light brown. Put the potatoes, bacon and onion, a little chopped parsley, salt and pepper into a saucepan. Add 1 pt. of water, cover and simmer 15 or 20 minutes. Then add 1 pt. of milk. Mix 1 tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add to the rest and stir carefully until it boils.

19.—A Spanish Fish Dish.

Bone some nice pieces of cold fish. Warm it in a cupful of olive oil, 1 clove of garlic, some Spanish red pepper and a wine-glass of tarragon vinegar. Lay tomatoes, cooked down to a thick purÉe, in a dish; lay the fish upon it, pour the sauce over and serve.

20.—Stewed Celery in Brown Sauce.

Cut the celery in six inch lengths, boil in salt and water, strain. Put ½ a pint of soup stock or gravy on the fire and cook the celery in it; add pepper and salt, a little nutmeg, 4 tablespoonfuls of cream, a little thickening of butter and flour. Simmer only a few minutes.

21.—Baked Oyster Dumplings.

Drain the oysters and cover with a little lemon juice. Make a light puff paste and cut into pieces about 4 inches square; brush them over with white of egg. Place upon each square 2 or 3 of the prepared oysters and put a little piece of butter on them. Bring the four corners of the paste together and fasten them with a small wooden toothpick, leaving the crust open between the points. Bake in the oven until a nice brown, take out the toothpicks and serve.

22.—Barbacued Lobster.

Cut up and chop a large lobster; add both black and cayenne pepper, mustard, salt, a small cup of sweet oil, two or three powdered crackers or bread crumbs; a wine-glass of wine, lemon juice; mix well. Shape into a loaf and cover with bread crumbs. Bake half an hour.

23.—Oyster Patties.

Make a rich puff paste and bake it in small patty-pans. When cool turn out on a large dish. Stew the oysters with a few cloves, a little whole mace and the yolk of an egg boiled hard and grated, a little butter and enough oyster liquor to cover. When the oysters are cooked, set away to cool. When cold put two or three oysters and a little sauce in each patty-shell, serve with lettuce and French dressing.

24.—Jellied Tongue.

Make a jelly of ¼ a box of gelatine and a pint of soup stock; season highly when it begins to thicken. Wet a mould and lay slices of tongue all over the bottom and sides. When it begins to set fill the centre with chopped chicken, hard boiled eggs, or just use tongue alone. When cold and firm garnish with parsley.

25.—Dolmas (A Turkish Dish).

Chop fine 1 cup of cold mutton and 1 small onion; add to this ½ a cup boiled rice, salt and pepper, mix well. Take some cabbage leaves and put them into boiling water for a minute, and then roll the chopped meat mixture up in them like a sausage; then stew them in a little soup stock. Serve hot with garnish of hard boiled egg.

26.—Harlequin Sandwiches.

Butter slices of both white and Graham bread. Spread each with Neuchatel cheese, chop fine a few English walnuts and sprinkle over. Put a white and a brown slice together.

27.—Pickled Oysters.

Take ½ a pt. of white wine and ½ a pt. of vinegar, 4 teaspoonfuls of salt, six of whole black pepper, and a little mace. Strain the oyster liquor and add the above ingredients. Boil up once and pour hot over the oysters. Let them stand ten minutes or until cold and then put in a jar and cover tightly.

28.—Calas.

Three gills of soft boiled rice, 1 gill of rice flour, a pinch of salt, 6 tablespoonfuls of sugar, 2 of wheat flour, 3 eggs, a little yeast. Fry quickly.

29.—Potato Puff.

Beat light, two cupfuls of mashed potatoes, add 2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter, salt, pepper, cream, 2 eggs beaten separately; beat all hard. Pile high on a dish; put into the oven to color and become light.

30.—Beef Tongue (Fresh).

Boil a fresh beef tongue, fifteen minutes, skin it. Put in a pot, 1 carrot, 1 onion, thyme, bay leaf, salt and pepper, 2 cloves, glass of cooking wine, and a little water. Stew 4 hours. Strain out the vegetables and put in a little browned flour.

31.—Salmon Salad.

Take a qt. can of salmon, pick it over carefully, as there are a great many little bones. Season with salt and pepper and a little lemon juice. Pile neatly on a platter, arrange the tops of boiled asparagus around it and cover with mayonnaise dressing.

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