Curried Crab

Put into a saucepan 1/4 pound butter with a little flour; cook together and stir till cool; then add a gill of cream, a little cayenne pepper, salt, and a dessert-spoonful of East India Curry Powder. Mix well together, and add 1 pound boiled crab meat, chopped fine; stir well together - make very hot and serve. The addition of a glass of white wine adds to the flavor of this curry.

To Toast Bread

Cut bread in slices 1/2 an inch thick; first taking a thin crust from top, bottom and sides, or shave the loaf before cutting - otherwise the crust will scorch before the soft part is sufficiently toasted.

Cream Toast

To make a delicious cream toast, mix well a teaspoonful of corn-starch with a little cold milk, and put in a stewpan with a piece of butter the size of an egg. Pour in hot milk, and stir two minutes, adding a little salt - a little sugar is also an improvement - and pour over the toast while hot.

Fritters

Four eggs, well beaten; 1 quart of milk; 1 quart of flour; 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder; one tablespoonful sugar, and a little salt. Cook in best lard, and serve with hard or liquid sauce, highly flavored with California brandy or white wine.

Delicate Waffles

Take 1/2 pound butter; 1/2 pound fine sugar; 9 eggs; 3 pints of milk; 1 1/2 ounces of best baking powder, and 2 1/4 pounds sifted flour. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks of the eggs, the milk, and half the flour; mix well, with the whites of the eggs, beaten to a staunch snow, and add the remainder of the flour. Bake in waffle irons, well greased and heated. When baked, the tops may be dusted well with fine sugar, or with a mixture of sugar and powdered cinnamon.

Force-Meat Balls

Mix, with 1 pound of chopped veal, or other meat, 1 egg, a little butter, 1 cup, or less, of bread crumbs - moistening the whole with milk or the juice of the stewed meat. Season with summer savory. Make into small balls, and fry brown.

Beef-Tea

Take 3 pounds of lean beef; chop as fine as coarse hominy, and put in a vessel, covering the meat with cold water. Cover the vessel tightly, and let boil for four hours, carefully keeping the beef just covered with the water. Pass through a colander, pressing out all the juice with a potato-masher, strain through a cotton cloth, and add a little salt. A glass of sherry wine decidedly improves beef-tea.

Crab Sandwich

Put 1/2 pound boiled crab meat in a mortar, and pound to a smooth paste, adding the juice of a lemon. Season with pepper and salt, with a pinch of curry powder, and mix the paste well with 6 ounces best butter. Cut slices of bread rather thin, trim off the crust, and spread.

Baked Macaroni

Break the macaroni rather short; wash and put in salted water; boil about twenty minutes. Drain off the water, replace it with a cup of good milk and 1 tablespoonful of best butter, and as soon as boiling hot put in a baking-dish. If you like cheese, grate over it the best California article - old cheese should never be used - and bake to a light brown.

For stewed macaroni omit the baking and the cheese, if you like.