roll with beaten yolk of egg, diluted with a little milk, or
with a little sugar dissolved in milk, or with thin starch.

=Chou Paste.=

Put a saucepan with half a cup of butter and one cup of boiling water
over the fire. When the mixture boils, beat into it one cup of flour.
When the dough cleaves from the sides of the saucepan, turn into a bowl
and beat in, one at a time, three large or four small eggs.

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=To Boil Salted Meats: Ham, Tongue, Etc.=

Cover the meat with cold water and bring the water slowly to the
boiling-point; let boil five minutes, then _slightly_ bubble until the
meat is tender.

=To Boil Chicken, Lamb and Other Fresh Meat.=

Cover the meat with boiling water, let boil rapidly five minutes, then
keep the water just below the boiling-point, or just "quivering" at one
side of the saucepan, until the meat is tender. When the meat is about
half cooked, add a teaspoonful of salt for each quart of water.

=Potted Meat and Fish for Sandwiches.=

INGREDIENTS.

1 pound of tender cooked meat or fish (2 cups).
2 ounces of fat cooked meat (1/4 a cup).
2 ounces of butter (1/4 a cup).
Mace and anchovy essence, if desired.
Pepper and salt.

_Method._--Chop the meat or fish very fine, then pass through a puree
sieve; cream the butter and with a wooden spoon work it into the meat or
fish; add seasonings to taste, press the mixture solidly into small jars
or cups, and pour melted butter to the depth of one-fourth an inch over
the top of the meat. Set aside in a cool place.

=Kinds of Meat and Fish for Potting.=

Ham, fat and lean; either chicken, veal or tongue, with bacon; chicken
and ham, mixed, fat ham; chicken and tongue, mixed, with bacon; veal and
ham, mixed, with fat ham; roast beef and corned beef, mixed, with fat of
either, or bacon; finnan-haddie and bacon; salmon, cod, haddock,
bluefish, etc., with bacon, or with double the amount of butter.

[Illustration: Bowl of Fruit-Punch Ready for Serving.]

BEVERAGES SERVED WITH SANDWICHES.

Towards eve there was tea
(A luxury due to Matilda) and ice,
Fruit and coffee.
--_Meredith's "Lucile."_

Come, touch to your lips this melting sweetness,
Sip of this nectar,--this Java fine,--
Whose tawny drops hold more completeness