Fifty dinners

pudding, following the recipe for “banana pudding” in all other respects. Use the syrup in the sauce. This is simply a preparation of buttered eggs, cooked very gently, and kept in a creamy, by no means lumpy state, to which grated Par- 6. Buttered mesan or Gruyere is added with a tablespoonful of cream to finish with. Serve upon crisply fried bread crouttes. Proportions : an ounce and a half of fresh butter and three whole eggs, two good tablespoonfuls of the cheese. MENU XLIV. (February or March.) Potage Saint Germain. Eperlans k. I’lndienne. Pa,t4 de lapereau. Beignets d’orange. Biscuits ^ la Livoumaise. Fry together in butter three ounces each of onion, carrot, and turnip, all finely minced with the peelings and trimmings of a quarter pound of mushrooms. Before turning colour moisten with a pint and a half of warm white broth slightly thickened, boil up, skim, and simmer twenty-five minutes, then pass all through a hair sieve. Garnish ivith preserved peas and a few pieces of the custard described at page 146. The point here is to choose twelve small smelts and pass fine silver or wooden skewers through the eyes of six of them, thus threading them together, as it were, and forming two lots. Dip 2^^ Smelts^on them in milk with which a teaspoonful of way. turmeric powder has been dissolved, and flour them with flour tinted yellow with turmeric. When this has dried, fry and serve in the usual way. It is better to bone the rabbit and set its bones, to make with vegetables and seasoning a really strong f broth for the moistening of the pie. An ounce of glaze and a glass of marsala will improve it. Line the pie-dish with twelve ounces of fillet of veal, prepared exactly like the rolls of beef, page 1 2 1, and the rabbit over these, and finish in the same way. Half a gill of the broth may be added after the baking through the hole in the top of the crust. Orange fritters should be made like banana fritters, page 1 1 7. Peel and scrape the fruit, divide it into its natural quarterings, with the point of a sharp knife make a small incision and squeeze out the pips : then marinade the orange in curacoa, dusting finely sifted sugar over them. Dip in the batter given page 10, and fry as in the recipe first quoted. Moisten one finely minced hard-boiled egg, two tablespoonfuls of chopped olives, and two of chopped anchovies, with half a gill of good brown \livelTscuUs. ^ tomato puree ; stir over the fire till thick, and then spread on devilled biscuits, dusting Parmesan cheese over their surfaces. Serve very hot. MENU XLV. {Afarch or ApHl.) Potage k la Bolonaise. Soles au four. Noisettes de mouton a la gendarme. Macaroni fourr6 aux hultres. Biscuits G6nois. Sardines ^ la Toscane. Slightly thicken a pint and a half of good chicken giblet broth with three-quarters of an ounce of butter and the same weight of flour, stir in two tablespoonfuls of ground sweet almonds, bring to the boil, and simmer for twenty minutes ; then pass all through the hair sieve, and serve with grated Parmesan and plainly boiled rice. Remove the black skin from a good-sized sole, and on that side make an incision a quarter of an inch deep down each side of the back-bone.