d Parmesan cheese added to taste.

TOMATO SAUCE.

Melt a large tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan over the fire, when
it bubbles put into it a small onion and half a green pepper, if
convenient, chopped very fine. Simmer gently for a few minutes, then
stir in a heaping teaspoonful of flour, and add four nice, fresh
tomatoes peeled and cut small--canned tomatoes may be used--a gill of
vegetable stock, a clove and part of a bay leaf, and pepper and salt to
taste. Let it cook gently for half an hour and press through a fine
sieve.

SAUCE TARTARE

may be made by beating a small tablespoonful of butter to a cream,
adding salt, pepper, dry mustard and sugar to taste and the raw yolk of
an egg. Add a tablespoonful of olives, small cucumbers and capers
chopped very fine and a few drops of onion juice. Serve with mock fish
cutlets and croquettes.

SAUCE PIQUANTE.

Melt a heaping tablespoonful of butter in a spider and when it bubbles
stir into it a heaping tablespoonful of flour, cook until it turns a
dark brown, taking care not to let it burn, add to it enough
well-seasoned vegetable stock to make the sauce the proper consistency,
then pour it into a granite-ware saucepan and add one small cucumber
pickle, two olives and a few capers, all chopped very fine; season with
salt and pepper to taste.

Sandwiches.

CHEESE SANDWICHES.

Half a pound of grated cheese, one tablespoonful of butter, the yolks of
two hard-boiled eggs mashed very fine and a teaspoonful of mayonnaise
dressing. Mix the ingredients thoroughly; butter before cutting from the
loaf some slices of brown or white home-made bread; spread with the
mixture and fold together.

CELERY SANDWICHES.

Use dainty little baking powder biscuits freshly baked but cold, or
white home-made bread for these sandwiches. Only the very tender part of
celery should be used and chopped fine and put in iced water until
needed. Add a few chopped walnuts to the celery and enough mayonnaise
dressing to hold them together; butter the bread before cutting from the
loaf, spread one slice with the mixture and press another over it. If
biscuits are used, split and butter them. They should be small and very
thin for this purpose and browned delicately.

NUT AND CREAM CHEESE SANDWICHES.

Boston brown bread buttered on the loaf and cut in very thin slices;
spread with a filling of cream cheese and chopped walnut meats; press a
buttered slice over it. They may b