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are nice when fresh cooked and hot. Serve without sauce or gravy, but garnish with parsley or seed-bed celery. Dinner. Dinner ordered an hour earlier. Two lady boarders arrived. The firm of Duke and Diamond intend to make much of their vacation from city business and will take a sail with all the ladies on board around the lake. Looks like an exploration : Perhaps there is business in it. It may be there is to be no more dependence upon the patronage of friends and acquaintances, but an advertisement to the great pleasure-seeking public of the claims of this place, However, the dinner will not be much regarded and must be short and easy. Consomme jardiniere (q qts, 25 cents.) Roast beef (2 ribs, 3 lbs net 40 cents.) Spring lamb (5 lbs 50 cents.) Summer beets in sauce (10 cents.) String beans (garden 10 cents.) Corn (i can 15 cents.) Potatoes browned, mashed (9 cents.) Tomatoes (i can, 15 cents.) Raspberry pie (open ; puff paste ; 3, 30 cents.) Boiled corn starch pudding (No. 639; pudding 9, sauce 4, — 13 cents.) Vanilla cup custard (No. 136 treble, 22 cents.) Spice cake (without eggs. No. 640 ; frosted, 21 cents.) Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, condiments, (average count, 27 cents.) Butter, bread, coffee, tea, milk ,cream, 63 cents. Total, $3 50; 29 persons; 12 cents a plate. 637— Consomme Jardiniere. The words signify a clear soup with vegetables. See No. 139. When the materials retommended are not available make as rich a broth as can be with the shoulder bone of the beef roast and the "cap" or coarse meat that is upon it and a veal shank. Strain, and remove all grease. . ,. , j. Cut string beans in little diamonds, take an equal quantity of green peas,, young carrots and turnips cut to the same size; also two green onions, a summer squash and a small green cucumber; or whatever of the kindcan be obtamed, all cut small, and about three cupfuls in all to five quarts. Boil the vegetables a few minutes in water. Season the consomme with salt and cayenne, and add two tablespoons of walnut catsup. Dram off the water from the vegetables and put them into the consomme. A heapmg teaspoonful of starch mav be used to thicken it slightly. Let it boil until clear again. 638— Beets in Sauce. 2 cups milk — a pint. 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder. 5 cups flour — ij^ pounds. 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon. I teaspoon each of cloves and allspice. Warm the butter ; stir up the sugar and milk. Put the powder and spices in the flour, mix all and beat up well. Bake in shallow tins and frost over when done. Before baking brush over the top of each cake with milk; it glazes them, and makes smooth crust. A Pasiry and Store Room Necessary. Boil blood beets in plenty of water from It took about two weeks at this house one to two hours. Try with a fork. Put to get a little room fixed up with a few them into cold water and rub off the skm. shelves to keep certain kinds of stores upon Cut in quarters or suitable pieces into a I and a table m the same room for the saucepan, and fill up with three parts I bread-making pastry, although I had water and one part vinegar. Boil, add made temporary arrangements of the kind salt, a little butter, and flour thickening, on the very first day, being allowed to gently pitch a lounge and rocking chair