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pieces only half as large. Stir them over the fire in a saucepan with a spoonful of fat or oil until they are slightly browned, then drain off all the fat, throw in a few sliced mushrooms, a sprinkling of onion and garlic and pour in enough Spanish sauce to cover, or, if no sauce ready use light brown gravy. For the border cut Julienne vegetables as if for soup, boil them, drain, mix in a white sauce (some of the same made for the fish) and put a spoonful in each dish, making a hollow with the spoon and the ragout in the middle. A Saratoga potato slicer is a help in cutting Julienne, which is rather a tedious operation without. The thin slices can be laid together and shredded finely. Some epicures, apparently have discovered an agreeable new zest in butter browned by frying, for it has been employed as a flavoring in sweets as well as in meat sauces. The English call it nut brown butter. Prepare the sweetbreads by boiling and pressing and when cold, slice thinly, season and dip both sides in ; flour and have them ready in a pan. Shortly before dinner make a cupful of butter hot in a frying pan. While it is frothy and beginning to brown lay in the floured sweetbreads and give them time to get brown on both sides. Serve when done with a little of the butter upon them, two or three olives and quartei of lemon in the dish. 825— Ragout of Veal, Julienne. A ragout is a mixture of meats and other edibles cut small in a sauce. Elaborate mixtures of this sort are sometimes served like a sauce to larger meats, and again, are served in this way. Cut a piece of veal into large dice and a kidney and slice or two of salt pork into 826— Succotash, Corn and beans mixed together is called succotash; butter beans is the kind preferred but all sorts of green garden beans are used. Season as corn alone would be seasoned, with a little sauce made of milk, butter and salt, or, with salt alone. 827— Boiled Lemon Pudding. A lemon suet pudding; pale yellow, rich. 2 cups flour — U pound. 2 cups minced suet — impound. 2 solid cups minced bread— >^ pound. J^ cup sugar 2 lemons. 2 eggs . 2 cups milk — a pmt. ^ teaspoon soda. Same of salt. Make the bread crumbs fine by grating or mincing. Grate the lemon rinds into it, put soda in flour, mix dry articles together, wet with the eggs and milk and stir up thoroughly. Tij up in pudding bag or mould and boil 2 hours. Cost of pudding 21 cents for 3 pounds or two quarts. 828- Tea IceCrecm. Can only be made with pure sweet, cream as it is not good with custard or ^o3 COOKING JPOR PROMT. starch, but fine if made right. Sweeten 2 quarts of cream with 2 cups sugar and add I cup strong tea made as for drinking and freeze as usual Dinner. August 2. Soup— Consomme Calcutta (6 quarts 35 cents.) Sliced tomatoes and cucumbers (on table ;io cents .) Fillets of sole, a la tartare (5 pounds grass and sauce 70 cents .) Potatoes duchesse . Corned beef and cabbage (2 lbs and cabbage 21 cents.) Roast beef (from previous day and i lb 13 cents. Spring lamb, mint sauce (fore quarter 6 lbs 75 cents. Veal with dressing (shoulder boned, 3 lbs net and dressing 45 cents .) Scrambled sweetbreads, puree of peas (part charged yesterday ; 20 cents.) Turnips mashed 5, rice 5, string beans 4, corn 12, tomatoes 10, potatoes 12 (48 cents.)