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"Yes, ma'am ; and I have no doubt but that there are hotel cooks who will even use as many as twelve, or thirteen." Then Mrs. Tingee said, "O, myl" It is a singular trait in this lady that she never seems to regard the difference between a dish for two hundred people and a dish for two or three; all she sees is the eight eggs gone at one fell swoop. 1 venture the opinion that the Italians eat macaroni alone or in soup or gravy without much thought of cheese and without any thought of eggs, and I doubt V3ry much whether many of them would touch the dry and heavy cake of macaroni and cheese that is seen at many hotel tables in this country. There is a good example of an Italian way of preparing macaroni, spaghetti, lasagnes, nodilini and other such pastes at our No. 65; which requires neither eggs nor butter, and here is another just as good : Yi pound macaroni. 2 or 3 ounces cheese — or a grated cupful. 3 or 4 basting spoonfuls of fat from the roasting meat. 2 cups water or milk. 2 spoonfuls flour thickening. A handful of crushed crackers. Boil the macaroni 20 minutes, then pour off the water. Put in the cheese and other ingredients and salt ; turn it into a 2-quart pan, strew the crushed crackers on top and bake brown. The flour thickening added is to form a sort of sauce in it, but not enough to cake to the macaroni together. When there is a suitable sauce or gravy ready at hand it can be used to good advantage in that way. The strained gravy from a chicken stew, for example. Cost, 9 or 10 cents for 12 dishes. 630— Pumpkin or Squash Pie without Eggs. The bakery pumpkin pie; the pie of the lunch houses and shops. % I can of pumpkin, or a quart fresh cooked (which is cheaper.) 1 cup sugar. 2 cups milk. 3 basting spoonfuls flour-and-water thickening . I teaspoon each ground ginger and cinnamon. Mash the pumpkin through a colander, stir in the other ingredients. It makes 3 pints, enough to fill 3 deep pie plates lined with thin crusts of common short paste. Pumpkin 14, sugar 4, milk, spice and flour 2, crusts 4—24 cents or 8 cents each. 631— Boiled Rice Pudding without Eggs. I cup rice. 4 cups milk. Yz cup sugar. Butter size of an egg. Wash the rice free from dust and cook it with the milk in a farina kettle or double kettle. If you have none put the sugar and rice both into the milk and let boil in a saucepan at the back of the stove with the steam shut in. Never stir it while cooking and it will not burn. When done stir in the butter. Serve in small pudding saucers with sauce poured oyer. For the sauce, boil ^ cup sugar and piece of lemon, nutmeg or stick cinnamon in 2 cups water; thicken slightly, add small piece of butter and simmer until it is like jelly. French fried potatoes (6 cents.) German puffs (No. 623; 30; 23 cents,) Plain rolls (few from breakfast.) Wild raspberries (2 qts, 10 cents.) White cake (without eggs. No. 632; 15 cents.) Cream 30, sugar 10, milk 12, butter, bread 20, coffee, tea 12. Total, $1 97; 27 persons; 7 3/8 cents a plate. Two strangers arrived on the five o'clock train. Just the luck. The only time the 'bus failed to go to the train somebody came. But they got a livery rig and came over. Somebody says they are real dukes.