Banquets of the nations

sticks of cinnamon. Now stir in a pound of blanched and split almonds and a pound of sultana raisins, after which add a pound and a half of sugar syrup, and stir till it thickens. Pour on to an oiled deep flat dish, and when cooling cut into shapes ; or it may be poured into oiled fancv forms. XXXVI.— CEYLON Menu Thora Malu Kellewelle Malu (Curried Mackerel) (Curried Whiting) Gona Malu Pirni (Curried Elk) Kukul Vejenjana Kaytas Hava Malu Pirni (Curried Fowl) (Meat Balls) (Curried Hare) Alle Vejenjana Labu Malu Pirni (Potato Curry) (Curried Pumpkins) Mulligatani (Mulligatawny Soup) Gaita Bibick Kau All) lwa (Cocoanut Cake) (H. sney Cake Pala (Fruit) Cocoanut Chutney. Six tablespoonfuls of scraped cocoanut, one red and three green chillies, half tablespoonful ground onions, the juice of half a lemon, and salt to taste. Grind all to a thin paste, and eat with curries. Onion Chutney. Moisten with cocoanut milk some roughly chopped onions and half the quantity of finely shred green chillies. Season with red pepper and salt and a very little lemon juice. Eat to curries. Thora Malu. (Curried Mackerel.) Fillet two medium-sized mackerels ; throw the heads, skin, and bones away. Rub the four pieces with a mixture of one and a half teaspoonfuls each of salt and ground onions, half a teaspoonful each of pounded cinnamon and chillies, and a quarter of a teaspoonful of pounded caraway and half the quantity of garlic, the juice of half a lemon, and a tablespoonful of mustard oil. Let the pieces of fish soak in this for two hours, turning them every fifteen minutes. Wipe, each fillet, and cut in- three pieces (twelve pieces in all), and plunge into plenty of boiling clarified butter, turning them once. When cooked they should be nicely browned on both sides. The fire should be a slow one. Kellewelle Malu. (Curried Whiting.) Take a few small onions, a teaspoonful of powdered " Bombay duck," half a teaspoonful ground chillies, a teaspoonful ground ginger, a point of garlic ground, the juice of a cocoanut, and half a teaspoonful of salt. Fry the onions sliced in a good bit of butter. When cooked, but not brown, add the chillies, ground ginger, garlic, Bombay duck, and salt ; fry for a couple of minutes, then add a teacupful of thin cocoanut milk, and put in two pounds of whiting (without skin or bones) cut in two-inch pieces ; cover up and cook for ten minutes in the oven, then add a cupful of thick cocoanut milk, and cook for other five minutes. When dished strew more powdered Bombay duck over the top. Gona Malu Pirni. (Curried Elk.)