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Oatmeal (3 cents.) Beefsteaks (6, 12 cents.) Lamb chops (10, i lb, net, i^ gross, It; cents.) Ham (4, 8 cents.) Shirred eggs (No. 94; 18, and butter, 24 cents.) French fried potatoes (6 cents.) Corn muffins (No. 286; 24, 12 cents.) French rolls (8 cents.) Graham batter cakes (i qt, 8 cents.) Syrup, butter 23, milk, cream 32, coffee, tea, sugar 12. Total, $1 63; 25 persons; 6^ -cents^ a plate. « 620— Lamb Chops and Toast. Lamb chops are tedious, being small, but make a choice dish for a Sunday breakfast. As, in order to make a chop worth having of the ribs it is necessary to cut two ribs to each, take out one bone and leave all the meat on the other, there can be but few, to serve to the most honorably select, the main dependence for quantity is in cutting up the entire loin and perhaps the leg. Flatten with the cleaver. Trim and shape all as near like rib chops as may be. Cut little pieces of buttered toast very thin and in pear shape. Place one in the dish, a JDroiled chop leaning upon it, another piece of toast and another chop— all on an end aslant in the dish— and garnish with parsley or cress or young seed-bed celery. I teaspoon lemon extract. Beat the eggs, sugar and milk together, add the cocoanut and flavor. Makes a quart and fills two pies large and deep. Costs : milk 2, sugar 2, eggs 4, cocoanut 6, extract i, short crusts 4 or 5; 20 cents for 2. Cut each in 8. Dinner. (Sunday.) Roast beef (i rib, 2 lbs, 28 cents.) Spring lamb (4 lbs, 44 cents.) Tomatoes (i can, seasoned, 16 cents.) Corn (1 can, seasoned, 16 cents.) String beans (i can, 14 cents.) Tomatoes (2 ways, 6 cents.) Rhubarb pie (i, 9 cents.) Cocoanut custard pie (No. 621; 2, 20 cents.) Icecream with raspberries (No. 218; 3 pts, pure cream 15, 14 ozs, sugar 7, 2 qts, berries 20, freezmg j — 47 cents.) Fine white cake frostea (No. 622; 20 cents.) Layer cake with raspberry jelly, frosted (No. 622 ; 22 cents.) Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, pickles, condiments (average, 25 cents.) Milk ( 2 galls, 24 cents.) Cream (i pt, 10 cents.) Butter, bread 13, coffee, tea 6. Total, $3 20; 25 persons; nearly^ 13 cents a plate. 621— Cocoanut Custard Pie, 2 cups milk — a pint. 54 cup sugar — 4 ozs. 3 eggs— or, 6 yolks left as from No. 622. I heaping cup cocoanut — grated fresh, or dry. 622— Best White Cake, or Cake Dreamm 2 cups granulated sugar — a pound. I cup butter — ^ pound. 12 whites of eggs— 12 ounces. 1 cup milk — % pint. 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder. I teaspoon cream tartar. Vanilla or lemon extract. 4 large cups flour — a pound good weight. Sift the flour, powder and cream tartar together three or four times over. Soften the butter and stir it and the sugar together until white and creamy, gradually stir in the milk, tepid, and a handful of the flour to keep them from separating. Whip the whites to froth and add part whites and part flour until all are in. It can be baked in cake moulds or in layers. Makes i 3-pint mould of cake and i shallow tin cake pan an inch deep. When done, spread over them the easy cake frosting. No. 3 and set in a warm place to dry. , Cost : sugar 8, butter 10, whites equal to 8 eggs (^ 15, 10, milk 1, powder and c. t. 3, flour 3, frosting for 2 cakes 5 ; 40 cents for 4 pounds. Supper.