"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred thereof"

Solomon

Sweet Potatoes Flambes Au Marrones

Use cold boiled sweet potatoes cut in small squares. Pile up on a fire proof platter, or silver au gratin dish. The French marrons a la vanilla, about 3 marrons to each person, are mixed with the potatoes, pour over the juice of the marrons. Sprinkle with fine sugar and put under a grilling fire until brown, brushing every few minutes with butter. Send to the table with 4 tablespoons rum poured over the top and lighted. Potatoes should stand 5 hours before using. - A. D. H.

Stuffed Eggplant

Take fresh, purple eggplants of a middling size, cut them in two; scrape out all the inside and put it in a saucepan with a little minced ham; cover with water and boil until soft; drain off the water; add 2 tablespoons grated crumbs, 1 tablespoon butter, 1/2 minced onion, salt and pepper. Stuff each half of the hull with the mixture; add a small lump of butter to each and bake 15 minutes. Minced veal or chicken in the place of ham, is equally as good and many prefer it.

Spinach Timbale

Quickly made but must be served at once.

2 cups cooked spinach chopped very fine. Beat 2 eggs until very light, add 1/4 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste. Beat in the spinach and pour into buttered cups or timbale forms. Bake 20 to 30 minutes, until firm like a custard. Turn out on a hot dish and serve at once with cream sauce. These timbales are delicious but spoil if allowed to stand. - Anna Rew Gross

Creamed Carrots

Scrape the carrots and cut in slices 1/4 inch thick. Let them lie in cold water 1 hour before cooking. Boil till tender in salted water, drain and pour over them a well seasoned white sauce. - Maude Griswold Schwender

Potato Puff

Soak old potatoes for several hours and boil in salted water. To 2 cups potatoes mashed, or put through the ricer, add 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon salt and a little white pepper; fold in the whites of 2 eggs whipped stiff. Bake in buttered dish.

Potatoes In The Half Shell

Bake 6 medium sized potatoes; when they are soft, cut them in halves and scoop out the potato. Mash it, add 2 tablespoons butter, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons hot milk. Put this mixture back into the skins, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake for 5 minutes in a very hot oven.

Green Corn Custard With Broiled Tomatoes

Cut corn from young ears to make 1 cup, add 4 eggs beaten slightly with 1/2 teaspoon salt, dash paprika, few drops onion juice and 1 1/4 cups milk. Bake in buttered moulds in hot water. When firm, turn from moulds and surround with slices of broiled tomatoes. When green corn is out of season Kornlet may be used. 1/2 can will be enough.

Mashed Turnips

Select the large yellow turnips, as they are sweetest (the Cape Cod turnip is a good kind). Wash, pare, and cut them into pieces. Boil them in salted boiling water until tender. Drain, mash, season with butter, pepper and salt and heap lightly in a vegetable dish.