avory sauce, or the filling as given for
spinach border mould. A few truffles cut fine are a nice addition to
tomato sauce. Lay the little tops on and serve.

SAVORY RICE (a Mexican Dish).

Wash half a cup of rice, drain from the water. Put a heaping
tablespoonful of butter in a spider, when hot add a small leek or white
onion and the rice, fry until the rice is a golden brown--do not let it
get too dark. Have ready a vegetable stock, nearly fill the spider and
cook twenty minutes until the rice is perfectly dry. Every grain should
stand alone. Turn out on a platter and serve with tomato sauce.

RAGOUT OF ASPARAGUS WITH MOCK MEAT BALLS.

Scrape and wash a bunch of asparagus, cut in pieces about an inch long
as far as the stalks are very tender, put the remainder of the stalks
with an onion into a saucepan, cover with boiling water and let it cook
until tender--about half an hour. Then mash them in the water in which
they were boiled through a colander. Put over the fire again, and when
it comes to a boil throw in the points and cook until tender. While that
is cooking make some mock meat, as given in a previous recipe, form into
balls as large as a walnut. Cook them in salted boiling water for five
minutes, drain them from the water, also the asparagus points from the
stock, put them together in a saucepan to keep hot while making a gravy.
Melt a generous heaping tablespoonful of butter in a spider, add to it
when it bubbles a large heaping tablespoonful of flour, stir well until
it becomes a dark, rich brown, taking care that it does not burn, add
the asparagus stock, season with salt and pepper--this gravy should be
like thick cream--turn it over the asparagus and meat balls, stir in a
good half tablespoonful of butter, let it come to a boil and serve on a
platter. Garnish with parsley.

CURRIED RICE CROQUETTES.

Put three-quarters of a cup of milk in a saucepan with butter the size
of an egg, let it come to a boil, and stir into it one large cup and a
half of rice that has been boiled in salted water twenty minutes. Add a
slightly heaping teaspoonful of curry powder, a few drops of onion juice
and salt to taste. When it comes to a boil add a beaten egg to it, stir
a minute and remove from the fire. Turn it out, let it cool, and then
form into cylinders and fry as usual.

MOCK FISH CROQUETTES.

Slice three medium sized potatoes, boil until tender, but not soft, chop
very fine an even teaspoonful of on