round moulds; serve each one on a lettuce leaf with a circle of mayonnaise dressing around.

27.—Clams Sauteed and Creamed.

Chop fine two strings of soft shell clams after washing them. Melt one large tablespoonful of butter in a frying pan, add the clams and stir frequently until they are nicely browned. Keep well broken with a spoon. When browned dredge over them 1 heaping tablespoonful of butter and stir again until it is absorbed and browned, then add gradually 1 cupful of milk, stirring until it is smooth and thick. Season well with salt and pepper, simmer for 5 minutes and serve on toast.—"Table Talk," Phila.

28.—Cheese Fondue No. 1.

Beat 5 eggs without separating. When light, add 1 cupful of grated Swiss or mild American cheese, ½ a teaspoonful of salt, ¼ of a teaspoonful of white pepper, and three tablespoonfuls of butter cut into bits. Cook in a double boiler until the cheese has melted and the mixture is smooth and as thick as custard. Pour over hot buttered toast and send at once to the table.—"Table Talk," Phila.

29.—Beef Cutlets.

Trim and cut like cutlets some slices of beef; season. Fry on both sides until done; sprinkle over them chopped parsley, place on a dish and serve with a brown gravy.

30.—German Prune Cake.

For this use a recipe for short cake adding more milk to make it into a thick batter. Turn into a shallow, oblong pan and over the top press lightly into the mixture a close layer of partly cooked prunes. Sprinkle thickly with granulated sugar and bake in a quick oven. Serve hot.—From "Table Talk," Phila.

31.—Dormers.

Chop cold beef very fine, and season it with salt and pepper, then add some onion chopped fine and fried previously, also some rice boiled very dry. Mix all well together and make into small rounds, flour them and fry until brown. Serve with a hot gravy poured over them.

APRIL.

1.—Potato and Meat Turnovers.

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