National viands à la mode

minced mushrooms, which place in the centre of a dish, and arrange the slices of kidney all round, and sauce them with a sauce made with two tablespoonfuls of mustard worked with a gill of olive oil and two spoonfuls of French vinegar ; add a little salt and a pinch of sugar. Vatrovskis Press a pound of white cheese through a cloth to extract the moisture, pound it in a mortar with a piece of butter, season with salt and a very little nutmeg ; put all into a basin, and work in four eggs. Make a paste with an ounce of yeast mixed in a glass of milk, pass through a sieve, mix with as much flour as it will absorb, cover, and put into a warm place to rise. When ready add in six ounces of flour, four of butter, a little milk, and three eggs ; work the paste, cover it up, and let it rise again, when it will be ready to use. Then roll it out thin, stamp it in rounds, and set in the centre a little of the cheese preparation ; fold flat in half-moon shapes, and put them on a baking sheet, and let them remain for twenty minutes at the kitchen temperature. Then egg them over, and bake in a moderate oven. Agraz Take pounded unripe grapes, pounded sugar, and water ; strain and ice. It is good mixed with dry sherry. Alpistera. (Spanish) (Dubois) Rub a pound of flour through a sieve after drying it well, then mix with it half a pound of caster sugar and four well-whipped eggs till it becomes a good stiff dough ; then cut the paste into strips, as near as possible to represent a hand with the fingers all separated ; fry these hands till they are crisp and a pale brown, and till the strips are curled up. When done the biscuits should look like bunches of ribbons ; powdered white sugar should be well sprinkled over them before serving. Arroz Doce. (Portuguese) Sweet Rice Wash and dry a pound of rice and boil it in half a pint of water with a pinch of salt. When the rice has absorbed all the water add a pint and a half of milk, and sugar to taste. Boil till the milk is absorbed, and then take the saucepan off the fire till it ceases to boil. Then add the beaten yolks of two or three eggs and two dessertspoonfuls of orange-flower water. Turn the rice out on a very hot flat dish and cover it thickly with powdered cinnamon. F 2 Camalitos Take some Indian corn and cook it with a little milk ; mix it with some lard, sugar, and a little salt, and leave to get cold, and make the dumplings of Indian meal filled with almonds and citron. Camaran ^ I'Espagnole Shrimps, Spanish fashion Bruise the feet of the shrimps and fry them in oil ; put half a glass of brandy, half a glass of Madeira, and half a glass of white wine (such as Chablis or Sauterne), plenty of cooked and mashed tomatoes, and let them all cook. When they have boiled add a sprinkle of beef gravy and six or eight spoonfuls of brown sauce ; then divide the claws in pieces and slice the flesh of the shrimps, arrange them on a dish, and strain the sauce over them. Carapulca