What to eat, how to serve it

soaked an hour in one cupful of cold water. Stir until the gelatine is dissolved, and add a glass of pale sherry and a couple of tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Pour part of this jelly into a wet mould, and when it begins to form lay in slices of hard-boiled egg and pieces of the chicken.. More jelly follows, and more chicken, until all are used up. Turn out when the jelly is perfectly firm. Hominy Croquettes, — Make as directed for rice croquettes, using hominy instead of rice. Toasted Muffins. — Split and toast English muffins, and butter them on the inside. Orange Cake. — Two cups sugar, half. cup butter, four eggs, three cups flour, one cup cold water, one large or two small oranges, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder. "Work the butter and sugar together ; add the yolks of the eggs, the juice and grated peel of the orange, the water, the whites, and the flour with the baking-powder. Bake in small cakes. If you like, reserve one of the whites of the eggs, and make an orange icing by beating with this a cup of powdered sugar and a little orange juice. FAMILY LUNCHES FOB WINTER Cold Ham. Celery Salad. Batter Muffins. Baked Apples with Cream. Batter Muffins, — Two cups flour, two cups milk, two tablespoonfuls butter, three eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately ; one heaping teaspoonful baking-powder, saltspoonful salt. Put in the whites last of all, and bake the muffins in a quick oven. Baked Sausages. Stuffed Potatoes. Toasted Crackers. Cheese. Olives. Baked Sausages, — Make small cakes of sausage-meat, or prick the sausages, if you use those in skins, before putting them into the baking-pan. Bake until they are of a good brown. Take them out and thicken the fat left in the pan with a tablespoonful of flour, add a small cup of milk, boil up, and pour over the sausages in the dish. Broiled Oysters. Thin Bread-and-Butter. Cold Chicken. Raised Waffles. 11 161 Raised Waffles, — One egg, two cups flour, two cups milk, one tablespoonful butter, saltspoonful salt, half yeast cake. Set a sponge early in the morning, and just before baking at noon beat in the butter and egg. Beefsteak. Baked Sweet Potatoes. Lunch Cakes. Chocolate. Lunch Cakes. — One cup milk, four cups flour, two tablespoonfuls butter, half -cup sugar, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls currants, one teaspoonful baking-powder. Cream the butter and sugar, and stir them into the beaten eggs and milk. Add the flour and baking-powder, and last of all the currants, washed, dried, and dredged with flour. Roll out the dough, cut into rounds, and bake in a moderate oven. Split, butter, and eat while hot. Broiled Sardines on Toast. Omelet Nursery Muffins. Sugar Cakes. Chocolate. Broiled Sardines on Toast — Broil the sardines on a fine wire broiler, lay two on each FAMILY LUNCHES FOB WINTEE slice of toast, and squeeze over them a few drops of lemon juice. Nursery Muffins, — Two cups milk, two cups fine bread-crumbs, one cup flour, saltspoonful salt, one egg, one tablespoonful butter, three teaspoonfuls baking-powder. Beat the egg light, stir in the butter, the bread soaked in the milk, and the flour and bakingpowder. Bake in a steady oven, greasing the muffin tins well, so that the batter may not stick to them.. Sugar Cakes. — One cup butter, one cup sugar, four cups flour, two eggs, one teaspoonful vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, mix with the beaten eggs, add the flour and the flavoring, roll out very thin, and bake in a moderate oven, sprinkling the cakes with granulated sugar just before baking. Veal Hamburg Steaks. Light Rolls. Apple-Sauce. Jumbles. Veal Hamburg Steaks, — One pound lean veal, chopped fine ; two teaspoonfuls onion juice ; salt and pepper to taste. Mix all well, form with the hands into flattened cakes,