What to eat, how to serve it

butter, one cup milk, three cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder, half teaspoon- ful salt. Stir the butter, melted, into the beaten yolks ; add the milk, the flour (into which the baking-powder has been sifted), and the whites last. Bake in one loaf, in a steady oven. Cracked Wheat. Bananas. Minced Mutton with Poached Eggs. Buttered Toast. Baked Potatoes. Tea. Coffee. Minced Mutton with Poached Eggs, — Chop cold boiled or roast mutton quite fine. Put two cupfuls of this into the frying-pan with half an onion minced, and a halfcupful of good gravy. If you have none, use instead a gill of hot water and a lump of butter the size of an egg. Just before taking the mince from the fire, stir into it a tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce or two tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup. Heap the mince on small squares of buttered toast laid on a hot platter, and place a poached egg on top of each mound. Serve very hot. &:=. Apples. Wheat Granules. Soused Mackerel. Potato Balls. Quick Waffles. Cocoa. Coffee. Soused Mackerel. — These may be purchased canned at nearly any good grocery, and make an excellent breakfast dish. Potato Balls. — To two cupfuls cold mashed potato add an egg, a teaspoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to taste. Form with floured hands into small round or long balls, and fry in deep fat. Quick Waffles. — Three cups flour, one tablespoonful butter, two eggs, two cups milk, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder, a little salt. Beat the eggs light, add the milk, butter, and salt. Stir in the flour with the baking-powder last. Grease your waffleirons well with a piece of fat pork. Grapes. Wheaten Grits. Broiled Steak with Mushrooms. Fried Egg-plant. Unleavened Bread. Coffee. Chocolate. Broiled Steak with Mushrooms, — Broil your steak over a clear fire. Before you put it on, open a can of mushrooms, take out half of them, and cut each mushroom in two. Saute them in a fr\^ing-pan with a little butter, unless you have a cup of bouillon or clear beef soup or gravy at hand. If you have, let them simmer in this for ten minutes, and when you dish your steak, pour gravy and mushrooms over it. Leave it covered in the oven five minutes before sending to table. Unleavened Bread. — Two cups flour, one tablespoonful butter, a pinch salt, enough water to make a dough. Knead this well, roll out very thin, cut in rounds with a biscuit cutter, prick with a fork, and bake in a hot oven. Pears. Corn-meal Mush. Dropped Fish-cakes. Saratoga Potatoes. Simple Griddle Cakes. Dropped Fishcakes, — One cup of salt cod picked very fine, half cup milk, one table- spoonful butter, two teaspoonfuls flour, one egg, pepper to taste. Make a white sauce of the flour, butter, and milk, stir the fish into this, add the egg, beaten light, season, and drop by the spoonful into boiling lard, as is done with fritters. Simple Griddle Cakes, — Four cups sour milk, one small teaspoonful baking-soda, salt, flour for batter. Stir well and bake quickly. Grapes. Rye-meal Porridge. Broiled Sausages. Stewed Potatoes. Wheat-flour Gems. Broiled Sausages. — Make sausage-meat into quite thin cakes with the hands, lay them on a gridiron, and broil them over a hot fire. Wheat-flour Gems. — Two cups flour, one cup milk, one tablespoonful melted butter, two eggs, saltspoonful salt. Beat the eggs light, stir in the milk, the butter, the salt. Sift in the flour, stir briskly, and bake in gem-pans in a hot oven. Bananas. Oatmeal. Clam Fritters. Boiled Potatoes. English Muffins. Tea. Coffee.