in one pint of boiling water and milk, as soon as the
butter and flour are mixed; season it with salt and pepper to taste, and
put the macaroni into it. This dish costs less than ten cents, and is
very good and wholesome.

=Macaroni with Cheese.=--Boil half a pound of macaroni, as above, put into
a pudding dish in layers with quarter of a pound of cheese, (cost four
cents,) grated and mixed between the layers; season it with pepper and
salt to taste; put a very little butter and some bread crumbs over it,
and brown it in the oven. It will make just as hearty and strengthening
a meal as meat, and will cost about twelve cents.

=Macaroni Milanaise Style.=--Have ready some sauce, made according to the
receipt for _Tomato Sauce_ given below, or use some fresh tomatoes
passed through a sieve with a wooden spoon, and highly seasoned, and
two ounces of grated cheese; put half a pound of imported Italian
macaroni, (cost eight cents,) in three quarts of boiling water, with two
tablespoonfuls of salt, one saltspoonful of pepper, and a teaspoonful of
butter, (cost one cent;) boil rapidly for about twenty minutes, then
drain it in a colander, run plenty of cold water from the faucet through
it, and lay it in a pan of cold water until you are ready to use it. Put
into a sauce-pan one gill of tomato sauce, (cost two cents,) one ounce
of butter, (cost two cents,) and one gill of any meat gravy free from
fat, and stir until they are smoothly blended: put a half inch layer of
macaroni on the bottom of a dish, moisten it with four tablespoonfuls of
the sauce, sprinkle over it half an ounce of the grated cheese; make
three other layers like this, using all the macaroni, cheese, and sauce,
and brown the macaroni in a hot oven for about five minutes; serve it
hot. It will cost about thirteen cents.

=Macaroni with Tomato Sauce.=--Boil half a pound of macaroni as already
directed, and lay it in cold water. Make a tomato sauce as follows, and
dress the macaroni with it, using only enough to moisten it, and
sprinkling the top with an ounce of grated cheese, (cost one cent;)
serve it hot.

=Tomato Sauce.=--Boil together for one hour quarter of a can of tomatoes,
or six large fresh ones, (cost five cents,) one gill of broth of any
kind, one sprig of thyme, one sprig of parsley, three whole cloves,
three peppercorns, and half an ounce of onion sliced; (cost two cents;)
rub them through a sieve with a wooden spoon, and set the sauce to keep
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