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7 cents.) Stewed eggs (22 eggs, 28 cents.) Potatoes minced and browned. (7 cents.) Biscuits (14 fresh made, 8 cents.) Roils (left last meal warmed over.) Batter cakes (No. 402 — i qt, 8 cents.) Cofiee 5, tc;a i, milk 12, creaai 10, syrup 10, butter >^ lb, 10, bread baked IS- $1 69; 21 persons, 8 cents a plate. 540— Broiled Mutton Chops. Lay the chops on a plate and touch both sides with the butter brush. Broil over clear coals about five minutes, turning over only once. Put a tablespoonful of butter into a tin pan, logether with as much water and a pinch of salt and pepper. Shake together and when the chops are done let them lie in the pan and form their own gravy. 541_r>tewed Eggs. These are eggs poached, a lai^e number at once, then partly chopped. seasoned and dished up by spoonfuls. Drop into a saucepan of water that is boiling gently (See No. 93) about a dozen eggs and cook medium or until the yolks begin to harden, then either drain away the water or dip the eggs into another vessel. Throw m a few small lumps ot butter, salt, and if you have white pepper a little of that. Cut each egg in four with the edge of a spoon. 542— Potatoes Minced and Browned. edge, and you have a long roll of dough. Place it in the tin and brush over with the brush dipped in a teaspoonful of melted lard and set on a warm shelf to rise. The use of being particular how you fold up the dough is that if done right the loaves rise even and smooth without a break, but if wrong they rise and split open at one end. This is a daintv sort of bread that makes baker's bread ashamed. Dinner. At No. 82 find potatoes minced and browned in entire dishes for restaurant orders. At No. 534 find potatoes minced, in^ cream. Another way is to put the minced cold potatoes in a baking pan, mix in a little milk, butter, ^ pepper and salt and brown the surface in the oven. Serve spoonfuls in flat dishes. 543— To Warm Over Roils. Take rolls left over from the previous meal, place in a pan and cover with a wet cloth, half a cotton flour sack or piece of old table cloth dipped in water will do. Set in the oven and by the time the cloth is dry the rolls will be as good as if fresh baked — for such as are not critical judges of fresh bread. Some nights when the bands are playing and rockets flying it is exceedingly inconvenient to stay at home and mix I dough, and a pan of rolls left over on ' Purpose may do to satisfy the inexorable reakfast bill-of-tare at such a time. Lake trout, baked, gravy, (2 lbs, 20 cents.) Veal pot pie (meat, 24, crust, 4—28 cents.) Potatoes mashed, browned (5 cents.) No other vegetables in house. No butter in house. Cherry pies (2 with 1 can cherries, 14; crust, 4; sugar, 2—20 cents.) Cottage pudding, hot cream sauce (2 lbs, 20 cents.) Milk, cream, coffee, tea (26 cents.) $1 ig; 20 persons, 6 cents a plate. That meal used up last of first lot of meat except sweetbreads reserved. Bought jar fresh butter at neighboring creamery at 20 cents a pound. Bouglit canned goods at country store. 545— Veal Pot Pie. 544— Fine Bread.