Sandwiches

Chop very fine some cooked ham or cold corned beef or tongue with one-fourth part fat. Mix one teaspoonful of dry mustard and one saltspoonful of salt with cold water to a stiff paste; add to it one fourth of a cup of butter creamed. Cut stale bread in very thin slices; spread with the mustard and butter paste, then with the ham. Put two slices together, and cut into rectangular pieces.

Scalloped Mutton

Remove the fat and skin from cold roast mutton; cut the meat in small thin slices; season it with salt and pepper. Butter a shallow dish, put in a layer of bread or cracker crumbs, then a layer of meat, then oysters, strained and seasoned, tomato or brown gravy, then crumbs, meat, etc., having on the top a thick layer of crumbs moistened in one third of a cup of melted butter. Cold boiled macaroni, cut into inch pieces, may be used in place of oysters.

Casserole Of Rice And Meat

Boil one cup of rice till tender. Chop very fine half a pound of any cold meat; season highly with half a teaspoon-ful of salt, half a saltspoonful of pepper, one saltspoonful of celery salt, one teaspoonful of finely chopped onion, one tea-spoonful of chopped parsley, and one saltspoonful each of thyme and marjoram. Add one beaten egg, two tablespoon-fuls of fine cracker crumbs, and moisten with hot water or stock enough to pack it easily. Butter a small mould, line the bottom and sides half an inch deep with the rice, pack in the meat, cover closely with rice, and steam forty-five minutes. Loosen it around the edge of the mould; turn it out upon a platter, and pour tomato sauce over it.

Casserole Of Mock Sweetbreads With Potato Border

One pound of uncooked lean veal cut into half-inch cubes, and cooked with one slice of onion in boiling salted water till tender, then put into cold water to whiten. Make one cup of white sauce, and season with one saltspoonful of salt, one saltspoonful of celery salt, and half a saltspoonful of pepper. Put the veal and half a cup of mushrooms, cut into quarters, into the sauce. Heat over hot water five minutes, or till the meat and mushrooms are hot. Remove from the fire; add quickly one teaspoonful of lemon juice and one well-beaten egg; serve inside a potato border, or on toast garnished with toast points.

Potato Border

One quart of mashed and seasoned potatoes shaped into a mound like a wall on the edge of a platter. Brush over with beaten white or yolk of an egg, and brown slightly. Fill with any kind of cooked meat or fish warmed in a white or brown sauce.