kind, one small
shallot, one teaspoon chopped parsley, pepper and salt, two tablespoons
bread crumbs, one egg. Take out the centre from the tomatoes; cut the
meat into very small pieces, mix with the bread crumbs, parsley,
shallot, pepper, salt, and egg. With this fill the tomatoes, put a small
piece of butter on each and bake fifteen minutes in a good oven.

MOCK TURKEY.

MRS. HENRY THOMSON.

Three pounds veal, one fourth pound salt pork, finely minced cup bread
crumbs (large coffee cup), two eggs, one teaspoonful salt, same of
pepper, a little sweet herbs, steam four hours.

TURBOT A LA CREME AU GRATIN.

MADAME J. T.

Boil one quart of milk twenty minutes, with one onion, one bunch
parsley, one bunch thyme; mix in a little cold milk, one quartercup
flour, and add gradually to boiled milk also salt, pepper and a grate
of nutmeg. When thick, remove from fire, add one quarter pound fresh
butter, the yolks two eggs, and two tablespoonfuls of grated gruyere
cheese. Pass through a coarse sieve and pour over two and one half
pounds of boiled fish removed from bones and flaked, putting in the dish
first a layer of sauce, then a layer of fish, another layer of sauce and
another of fish. On top layer put sauce, thickly sprinkled with bread
crumbs and grated gruyere cheese. Brown one half an hour in the oven and
serve. This quantity will serve ten or twelve people.

JELLIED TONGUE.

MISS MITCHELL.

Take a corned tongue, soak it for twelve hours then boil slowly, pare
and skin, and put it in your mould. Have ready half a package of
gelatine and a half a thinly cut lemon, place on the tongue and pour
your jelly over it. Turn out when cold.

SALADS AND SALAD DRESSING.

"To make a perfect salad, there should be a spendthrift for oil, a
miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a madcap to stir the
ingredients up, and mix them well together."--SPANISH PROVERB.

APPLE AND CELERY SALAD.

MRS. R. M. STOCKING.

One day at the house of a charming friend,
From dishes of dainty blue,
I ate something good which puzzled me much,
The secret I'll tell to you.

2. "This looks like salad, my dear," said I,
"T'is celery surely I see,
And mayonnaise yellow and thick and rich,
What may this rare flavor be."

3. "A firm spicy apple," she said with a smile,
"Cut into pieces like dice--
I used equal parts, with celery white,
And my salad