tender, turning occasionally, adding one-half tablespoon salt, the last hour of cooking. Remove to hot serving dish, garnish with parsley and serve with Celery Sauce. CELERY SAUCE. Wash and scrape celery and cut in one-half inch pieces; there should be one and one-half cups. Cook in boiling salted water until soft, drain and add to one and one-half cups White Sauce made by melting three table- spoons butter, adding two and one-fourth tablespoons flour mixed with one-half teaspoon salt and a few grains pepper, and pouring on, gradually, while stirring con- stantly, one and one-half cups scalded milk. One-half milk and one-half chicken stock may be used in place of all milk in making this sauce. RICED POTATOES A LA COLBURG. Mash eight hot boiled potatoes and season with one- fourth cup butter, one-half teaspoon salt, and one-eighth teaspoon paprika. Force through a potato ricer and pile lightly on a hot vegetable dish. SPINACH, SWEDISH STYLE. ° Wash one-half peck spinach and cook in an uncovered vessel in a large quantity of boiling salted water to which is added one-third teaspoon soda, and one-half teaspoon sugar. Drain, chop, and rub through a sieve. Melt two tablespoons butter, add spinach and cook three minutes; then add one tablespoon flour and cook two minutes. Add one-half cup heavy cream and serve garnished with fried bread cut in triangles and yolks and whites of hard boiled eggs. 32 What to Have for Dinner. TOMATO JELLY SALAD. 2 cups tomatoes 1} tablespoons granulated 1 slice onion gelatine + bay leaf $ cup cold water 3 cloves 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 4 teaspoon pepper✪ Tomato Jelly Salad Mix first five ingredients, bring to boiling point, and let boil fifteen minutes; then rub through a sieve. Add gelatine dissolved in cold water, and salt and pepper. Pour into individual moulds and chill. Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish with HORSERADISH SAUCE. 4 tablespoons grated horse- 4 teaspoon salt radish root Few grains cayenne 14 tablespoons vinegar 4 cup heavy cream Mix first four ingredients, and add cream beaten until stiff. . HEALTH FOOD BREAD SANDWICHES. Cut Health Food Bread with Dates twenty-four hours old, in as thin slices as possible, and remove crusts. Spread one-half the pieces sparingly with butter, and cover with remaining pieces. Cut in finger-shaped pieces, and arrange on a plate covered with a doiley. HEALTH FOOD BREAD WITH DATES. 1 cup warm wheat mush #4 yeast cake 2 tablespoons sugar 4 cup lukewarm water 4 teaspoon salt 1 cup dates, stoned and cut 1 tablespoon butter in pieces Flour✪ Health Food Bread with Dates Mix first four ingredients and add yeast cake dissolved Family Dinners. 33 in lukewarm water and flour to knead. Cover and let rise until mixture has doubled its bulk. Cut down, add dates, and shape in a loaf. Put in buttered bread pan, let rise, and bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven. CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM WITH ZWIEBACK. 2 cups scalded milk 2 squares chocolate 1} cups sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla 1 tablespoon flour 1 cup heavy cream 2 eggs 3 cups Zwieback, dried and 4 teaspoon salt - broken in small pieces 3 cups thin cream✪ Chocolate Ice Cream with Zwieback Mix sugar, flour and salt, add eggs slightly beaten and milk gradually; cook over hot water until a coating is formed on the spoon, stirring constantly at first, after- wards occasionally. Melt chocolate, dilute with hot mix- ture, then add to remaining mixture. Cool, add thin cream and vanilla; strain and freeze. Just before serv- ing, add heavy cream beaten until stiff, and Zwieback. 34 What to Have for Dinner. MENU NO. VIII. Animals feed; man eats; the intelligent man alone knows how to eat.—BRILLAT SAVARIN. Onion Sovp. BraisEep Lea or MUTTON. Saut&p Potato Batts. MasHED TuRNIPS. CAULIFLOWER VOL-AU-VENT. Sturrep Tomato SataD, — Bortep Dressina. CorrrE SPONGE. Family Dinners. 35 ONION SOUP. (See p. 17, under Family Dinners, Menu No. IV.) ✪ Mashed Turnips

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tender, turning occasionally, adding one-half tablespoon salt, the last hour of cooking. Remove to hot serving dish, garnish with parsley and serve with Celery Sauce. CELERY SAUCE. Wash and scrape celery and cut in one-half inch pieces; there should be one and one-half cups. Cook in boiling salted water until soft, drain and add to one and one-half cups White Sauce made by melting three table- spoons butter, adding two and one-fourth tablespoons flour mixed with one-half teaspoon salt and a few grains pepper, and pouring on, gradually, while stirring con- stantly, one and one-half cups scalded milk. One-half milk and one-half chicken stock may be used in place of all milk in making this sauce. RICED POTATOES A LA COLBURG. Mash eight hot boiled potatoes and season with one- fourth cup butter, one-half teaspoon salt, and one-eighth teaspoon paprika. Force through a potato ricer and pile lightly on a hot vegetable dish. SPINACH, SWEDISH STYLE. ° Wash one-half peck spinach and cook in an uncovered vessel in a large quantity of boiling salted water to which is added one-third teaspoon soda, and one-half teaspoon sugar. Drain, chop, and rub through a sieve. Melt two tablespoons butter, add spinach and cook three minutes; then add one tablespoon flour and cook two minutes. Add one-half cup heavy cream and serve garnished with fried bread cut in triangles and yolks and whites of hard boiled eggs. 32 What to Have for Dinner. TOMATO JELLY SALAD. 2 cups tomatoes 1} tablespoons granulated 1 slice onion gelatine + bay leaf $ cup cold water 3 cloves 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 4 teaspoon pepper Mix first five ingredients, bring to boiling point, and let boil fifteen minutes; then rub through a sieve. Add gelatine dissolved in cold water, and salt and pepper. Pour into individual moulds and chill. Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish with HORSERADISH SAUCE. 4 tablespoons grated horse- 4 teaspoon salt radish root Few grains cayenne 14 tablespoons vinegar 4 cup heavy cream Mix first four ingredients, and add cream beaten until stiff. . HEALTH FOOD BREAD SANDWICHES. Cut Health Food Bread with Dates twenty-four hours old, in as thin slices as possible, and remove crusts. Spread one-half the pieces sparingly with butter, and cover with remaining pieces. Cut in finger-shaped pieces, and arrange on a plate covered with a doiley. HEALTH FOOD BREAD WITH DATES. 1 cup warm wheat mush #4 yeast cake 2 tablespoons sugar 4 cup lukewarm water 4 teaspoon salt 1 cup dates, stoned and cut 1 tablespoon butter in pieces Flour Mix first four ingredients and add yeast cake dissolved Family Dinners. 33 in lukewarm water and flour to knead. Cover and let rise until mixture has doubled its bulk. Cut down, add dates, and shape in a loaf. Put in buttered bread pan, let rise, and bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven. CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM WITH ZWIEBACK. 2 cups scalded milk 2 squares chocolate 1} cups sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla 1 tablespoon flour 1 cup heavy cream 2 eggs 3 cups Zwieback, dried and 4 teaspoon salt - broken in small pieces 3 cups thin cream Mix sugar, flour and salt, add eggs slightly beaten and milk gradually; cook over hot water until a coating is formed on the spoon, stirring constantly at first, after- wards occasionally. Melt chocolate, dilute with hot mix- ture, then add to remaining mixture. Cool, add thin cream and vanilla; strain and freeze. Just before serv- ing, add heavy cream beaten until stiff, and Zwieback. 34 What to Have for Dinner. MENU NO. VIII. Animals feed; man eats; the intelligent man alone knows how to eat.—BRILLAT SAVARIN. Onion Sovp. BraisEep Lea or MUTTON. Saut&p Potato Batts. MasHED TuRNIPS. CAULIFLOWER VOL-AU-VENT. Sturrep Tomato SataD, — Bortep Dressina. CorrrE SPONGE. Family Dinners. 35 ONION SOUP. (See p. 17, under Family Dinners, Menu No. IV.)