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ed cream a little at a time, and stand away until very cold. Cut bread into fancy slices and spread with the mixture. 24.--Cauliflower with Cheese. Boil a cauliflower whole, pour a white sauce over it. Cover this with grated cheese, and place in the oven and brown. 25.--Cucumber and Lobster Salad. Cut a slice off the cucumbers lengthwise, scoop them out, fill with boiled lobster meat. Arrange the lobster claws across the top. Ornament with mayonnaise dressing. 26.--Horseshoe Cakes. Beat together very light 3/4 of a lb. of sugar and the same of butter, add 4 eggs and mix in 1-1/4 lbs. of flour. Mix 1/4 of a lb. of sugar and flour together, and lay in on the bread board. Take a small spoonful of the mixture and roll it with a broad-blade knife in the flour and sugar. When rolled to the right length lay on tin sheet in the form of a horseshoe and bake. 27.--Lettuce Sandwiches. Wash and dry the young and tender leaves of a head of lettuce. Butter slices of graham bread, spread with a thick layer of mayonnaise dressing, lay lettuce leaves between two slices. 28--Sally Lunn. Heat 1 pt. of milk blood warm, add 3 tablespoonfuls of butter, melted, 2 well-beaten eggs, and 1/2 a yeast cake dissolved in 3 tablespoonfuls of cold water. Pour gradually on the flour and beat into a smooth batter; then add 1 teaspoonful of salt and 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Butter baking pans and pour half full. Let it rise for 2 hours in a warm place. Bake 1/2 an hour. 29.--Lobster Fritanella. Take half a loaf of stale bread, crumb, and soak in cold water. When soaked, squeeze dry in a cloth. Chop a very little onion fine, add two tablespoonfuls of butter; stir together over the fire until a good brown; add the bread; stir well; put into this the chopped meat of a large lobster; salt, cayenne and nutmeg. When very hot, add the yolks of two eggs; stir hard, and then turn out to cool. When quite cold, form into rolls with a little flour; egg and bread-crumb them and fry. 30.--Frenchman's Pie. Boil 1-1/2 lbs. of calf's liver; when cold put it through the chopping machine twice, put it in a mortar with cayenne pepper, salt, nutmeg, mace and black pepper to taste. Line a china mould with very thin slices of fat bacon, then put a layer of cooked veal or chicken, cut in very thin slices, next a layer of the pounded liver, and so on until the mould is full. Pour in a pint of good gravy or stock in which 1-1/2 ozs
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