Oriental Canapes

Take some lobster or crab meat and pound in a mortar. Mix with one tablespoonful of butter, season with pepper and salt, a pinch each of mustard, cayenne, nutmeg and curry powder and moisten with lemon juice. Cut small rounds of toasted bread, scoop out the center of same, fill with the mixture and cover with a curry sauce. Sprinkle with hard bread crumbs, and let bake in the oven a few minutes. Serve hot. Garnish with parsley or water cress.

Curry Sauce For Above

One tablespooful butter, one tablespoon flour, one tea-spoonful curry powder, one large slice onion, one large cupful stock, salt and pepper to taste, cut the onion fine and fry brown in the butter. Add flour and curry powder, stir, add the stock. Simmer ten minutes, then strain. - Mrs. Geo. B. McLellan, Philippine Islands.

Cheese For Canape

Take a little Roquefort cheese and a little Neufchatel cheese, a little butter and pinch of salt, add Saprica Sepper, mix well, add a little anchovy sauce and a little olive oil, and fine chopped olives. - S. O. Delagard, Fred Harvey System.

Canapes

These are small portions of bread covered with simple compound mixture of fish, meat, eggs, cheese, etc., seasoned highly and served as a first course to tempt the jaded appetite. Cut either white, graham, rye or brown bread in one-fourth inch slices and then in oblongs, triangles, rings, circles, crescent or diamond shape some acceptable combinations.

No. 1. Equal portions mashed sardines and hard boiled yolks. Season with lemon juice, pile in center of bread with minced whites around it, lay slices of pickle across diagonally.

No. 2. Spread with mustard, grated cheese and a thin slice of pimala or a border of chipped green apples.

No. 3. Creamed butter, minced water cress, lemon juice, minced lobster or crab meat or a layer of caviar or anchovy paste.

No. 4. Minced ham or tonque made into paste with creamed butter and mustard. Garnish with minced olives or pickles, or slices of cucumbers.

Raw Oysters

Serve from 4 to 6 in the shell on fine chipped ice.

Sauce

Mix two tablespons each, horse radish, lemon juice, tomato catsup, one teaspoon salt. - Contributed.