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It will take three kidneys which must be cut lengthwise into three pieces. Wash these well and dry, wiping them very carefully. Warm three tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; put in the kidneys before this is really hot, with very little mace, and pepper and salt to taste, one teaspoonful of chopped onion, and a cupful of good brown gravy. Simmer all together, closely covered, about ten minutes. Add the juice of onehalf of a lemon and a pinch of grated lemon peel; take up the kidneys and lay upon a hot dish, with fried or toasted bread underneath. Thicken the gravy with browned flour, boil up once, pour over all, and serve. Mrs. Josephine Knox. DRIED BEEF CREAMED— No. 2. Shave the beef thin, put it in a stew-pan, adding one-half of a teacup of cold water. Let it come to a boil, and if the beef is pretty salt pour off the water and add milk sufficient for a meal, a piece of butter and some pepper. Take cream, a full tablespoonful of flour, stir to a smooth paste, and add gradually to the beef, stirring till it thickens. It is a very nice breakfast dish. Mrs. Mary Hilton. BEEFSTEAK WITH DRESSING. It grows tiresome to always broil or fry beefsteak, so a pleasant change is to take a nice juicy round steak and make a dressing of grated bread, as if for a fowl. Cover the steak with this dressing, turn over the edges, and fasten with linen thread. Place it in a dripping-pan in which is one-half of an inch of water, and bake it. Turn it when one side is done and brown the other. Another way, which improves the flavor, is to lay the steak on the griddle in the dripping-pan, put plenty of salt, pepper and butter over it — do not spare the butter — and run it into the oven, turning it once, when one side is done, and basting the other side with the gravy. Mary Heaton= BREAKFAST DISH OF COLD STEAK. Put a spider over the fire and into it put two tablespoonfuls of butter. When hot add one cupful of chopped cold steak or any other kind of boiled meat. Sprinkle over it one tablespoonful of flour. Stir well. Pour over it enough water to make a gravy. Add a little pepper and salt. Serve on toast. Sophie Severson. MEAT PIE. Take some mutton chops, either from the loin or neck, trim them neatly and put them, with chopped parsley, butter, pepper and salt in a stew-pan over a slow fire. Place the chops, with some good brown gravy, into the baking dish and add slices of raw ham. Cover with the lid, but first fill in with mashed potatoes to the brim; bake two hours in a slow oven, when the tin cover may be taken off, and the chops will be found tender and succulent. A. Plaisted. KIDNEY TORTILLA. Four eggs, two kidneys, one dessert spoonful of chopped parsley, one dessert-spoonful of chopped onion, one-half of a teacupful of stock, a tablespoonful of butter, one-half of a teacupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter. Cut the kidneys in rather thin slices and stew them with the parsley, onion, and one tablespoonful of butter in the stock until they are tender.