A bachelors cupboard

ONIONS take on a new savor when friend in this fash- WITH ion : Fry a quarter-pound or salt pork until quite brown, then remove from the pan. Slice a quart of onions into the fat, adding a little salt and pepper and half a cupful of water. Cover the pan and cook the onions until a light brown, then cut into dice three-quarters of a pound of good cheese and add to the onions about five minutes before serving. Allow them to simmer slowly, and do not break up the cheese in frying. This comes from Pierre Lavigne, a prominent young artist in Paris, who says he learned it of peasants in the valley of the Loire. OYSTER A deviation from the time-worn rabbit is RABBIT an Oyster Rabbit a la Frank Harris, which cannot fail to tickle some palates. Clean and remove A Chat on Cheese the hard muscles from half a pint of oysters and let them heat until their edges curl in a chafer with some of their own liquor, finally removing to a hot bowl. Then put in the blazer one tablespoonful butter, onehalf pound cheese broken in small bits, one saltspoon each of salt and mustard, and a few grains of cayenne, with a suspicion of bicarbonate of soda, if desired. While the cheese is melting, beat two eggs slightly, adding them to the oyster liquor and pouring gradually in the melted cheese. Add the oysters, cook a moment, and serve up on hot toast or crackers. A "BED- Herman Oelrichs occasionally created a SPREAD '' bonne bouchee'" and this, which he called FORTWO"]^jg "bedspread for two," is another oyster concoction that is worthy of the name. Stir six eggs together in a soup plate, and in another plate cut up a dozen medium Blue Points moderately fine. Rub the bottom of the blazer with anchovy paste, put in a good-sized piece of butter, and proceed to do the eggs into a creamy scramble. Just as they are turning, throw in the oysters and stir until well blended and cooked through, then serve on toast lightly spread with some of the anchovy paste. SARDINE Will you brave insomnia and indigestion? RABBIT Then listen: Have some sardines broiled and placed on squares of buttered toast, then make in the chafer a thin rabbit, using milk In lieu of ale, and a dash of Tabasco. Stir in one direction, adding A Chat on Cheese cream, and when the consistency of " cold molasses " pour over the broiled sardines. CHILELY A gay bachelor from 'Frisco who is too modest to give his name taught me this trick with cheese — New York Dairy. Break in pieces a quarterpound of it and rub to a paste with a tablespoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of made mustard, tw^o tablespoonfuls of thick cream, a dash of Tabasco, and some cayenne. Stir until nearly melted in the hot w^ater pan, and then stir in quickly this sauce which has been cooking in another chafer: Scald and skin three tomatoes of medium size; add one small white onion and one bell pepper with seeds removed and chopped fine, and cook ten minutes over a hot fire. Pour off superfluous tomato juice before adding to the cheese. Mix thoroughly, and if " Bock is in season," then you'll need no passport to the Land of Delight. ^^^ CHAPTER IX urr " One Devil Drives out Anotker "