The book of plain cooking

crumbs and put over, with grated cheese, and cover with small pieces of butter. Cook a nice brown. It is as well to warm through in the oven, and then finish under the gas grill. Serve in the dish in which it is cooked. 181. Cauliflower and Cheese Should you have some cauliflower remaining, a very pleasant way of using it up is to cook it with cheese. It is very simple, and an agreeable variety from macaroni and cheese. When the cauliflower is cooked, place it in a dish which has previously been buttered, then add white sauce, with a seasoning of mace, pepper, and salt. Grate some cheese and bread-crumbs, and put some pieces of butter on to brown it. Place in the oven, and when cooked, serve in the dish in which you have cooked it. A frilled paper round the dish is always an improvement to the appearance of a dish. 182. Stewed Sausages There are many ways of cooking sausages. Stewed they make a particularly nice supper dish. Cut some Spanish onions into rings, and place them in a stewpan with tomatoes, pepper, salt, and a little water with the sausages, and let them simmer until cooked. Spanish onions are the best for this dish, as liquor comes freely from them. Be sure and cut the onions fine, so that they do not take longer than the sausages to cook. 183. Sausages Baked in Batter Sausages are also very palatable baked in batter. This is a very simple and quick way of cooking them. Make a nice light batter, place in a well-greased tin, add the sausages, and bake in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes. 184. Sausage Rolls Sausage rolls are most useful ; they are acceptable at the breakfast-table, for supper, or for an early lunch. The mistake that is generally made is in making them too large. The sausages should be taken out of their skins and two sausages made into three rolls. Do not make too rich a crust, for the sausage meat is already rich enough. 185. A Mixed Grill To make a really nice mixed grill you need mutton cutlets, sausages split in half, and a rasher or two of bacon. These will easily cook on the griller of a gas stove, and take only about ten minutes, as the splitting of the sausages equalises the time required for the cooking of the cutlets. The bacon takes even less time. A few tomatoes will cook in the oven while the other things are on the grill, and served round the dish make a very nice garnishing, as well as adding a great relish to the dish. 186. Another Grill A piece of the fillet of steak also makes an excellent breakfast dish, served with sausages and kidneys. The kidneys can either be grilled with the steak, or stewed according to one’s fancy, and a few mushrooms give a great piquancy to the dish. Should you stew the kidneys the mushrooms may stew in the same jar or saucepan, and be either served on the same dish as the steak, or in a tureen as a sauce. 187. A Supper Dish A very charming and appetising supper dish can be made in the following manner : Cut some thick slices of stale bread into rings with a pastry cutter, and scoop out the middle. Fry them in fat a light brown, and well drain them.