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Take the best pieces of ham, the righthand cut shown at No. 552, shave off the outside, cut slices very thin the full size of the piece — they scarcely ever weigh so much as two ounces — and broil over a brisk fire. Lay on a good sized platter up towards one end and two fried eggs partly upon the ham and partly on the dish. If at 18 cents a dozen two eggs cost three cents, and two ounces of choice cut of ham worth 24 cents a pound net costs 3 cents each dish served counts six cents for material. 581— Stewed Kidneys, or Saute of Kidneys. stewed, but we have to call them so, because of the dazed looks we meet if we used any harder words. Slice the three or four Kidneys that have been taken from the different meats and steep a short time in cold water. Put them in a frying pan with a little butter, dredge with pepper and salt, and simmer slowly over the fire shaking the pan occasionally. There will be a rich gravy in the pan in a few minutes in which the kidneys become well cooked and remain tender, but if not watched the gravy Eresently coagulates and the kidneys are ard and tasteless. The cooking should take place only a short time before the meal begins. Add a tablespoonful of walnut catsup to the gravy before serving. 582— Muffins in Haste. There are no better muffins than the kind made according to the directions at Nos. 102 and 103, but in summer weather and with compressed yeast they can be made of fine quality in a still shorter time with only one rising. Breakfast beginning at half past seven, I mix up the muffins at six. Take a piece of the light dough that was set over-night for rolls or bread, put it in a pan, add four yolks, six tablespoons melted butter, same of warm milk and one tablespoon sugar and pinch of salt. Hold the pan over the stove to warm the ingredients while you thoroughly mix and beat them together. Drop into greased gem pans, set m a warm place to rise about an hour, then bake. Dinner. Kidneys cooked this way are not really Soup — puree of tomatoes with duchess crusts (5 qts, 25 cents.) Boiled ham (knuckle, 2 lbs, 20 cents.) Roast beef (i riband cap or shoulder cut, 4 lbs, gross, 50 cents.) Mutton pie (i lb, meat 8, i lb, paste 7, 15 cents.) Macaroni and cheese (No, 584, 12 orders, 12 cents.) Mashed potatoes, (7 cents.) String beans (2 cans,seasoned, 28 cents.) Steamed fruit pudding (2 lbs, 20 and sauce 5, 25 cents.) Rhubarb pie (2 large, rolled thin, 14 cents.) f3 Cheese, raisins, pickles, crackers, con diments (average count, 25 cents.) Butter (average, 15 cents.) Milk, cream, coffee, tea (36 cents.)i Total, $2 71; 25 persons; nearly 11 cents a plate. 583— Puree cf Tomatoes Soup; spoon — better than stirring around. There will be five or six quarts. Set it on the back part of the stove and as it slowly boils up at one side all the grease that is in it will collect on the surface at the other and must be skimmed off. Serve with a few duchess crusts, not put in the soup previously, but droypedia the plates as they are taken in..