"Cheese, it is a peevish elf, it digests all things but itself"

Baked Cheese

1/2 pint (1 cup) grated cheese 1 heaping tablespoonful (1 oz.) butter 1 heaping tablespoonful (1 oz.) flour.

1 gill (1/2 cup) milk.

3 eggs.

Salt and pepper to taste.

Melt the butter, stir in the flour, add the milk, salt and pepper. When it comes to boiling point remove from the fire, then add the yolks of the eggs, the cheese, and the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.

Pour into a well-buttered fireproof dish, and bake until brown.

Serve hot.

Cheese And Bread

1/2 pint (1cup) grated cheese 1/2 pint (1 cup) milk 1/2 pint (1cup) bread crumbs.

1 heaping teaspoonful butter 3 eggs.

Seasoning of salt and red pepper.

Scald the milk and butter together; remove from the stove, and add the cheese, bread crumbs, and seasonings. Beat up the eggs and add them lightly.

Pour into a buttered fireproof dish and bake for half an hour.

Serve at once.

Cheese Creams

2 heaping tablespoonfuls grated cheese.

1/2 pint (1 cup) half-set aspic jelly.

1/2 pint (1 cup) whipping cream.

1 tablespoonful chopped parsley-Salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste.

Beat up the cream till stiff and stir into it the cheese; add the aspic jelly and the seasonings. Divide into china ramequins; when set, sprinkle over with a little chopped parsley.

Serve very cold.

Cheese And Rice

2 cupfuls (1/2 lb.) grated cheese.

1 gill (1/2 cup) boiled rice.

2 heaping tablespoonfuls (2 ozs.) butter.

2 heaping tablespoonfuls (2 ozs.) flour Seasoning of salt and pepper 1 pint (2 cups) milk A few bread crumbs.

Blend the butter and flour together in a saucepan over the fire; then gradually add the milk, stirring constantly, and cook for five minutes. Remove from the fire and season nicely with salt and pepper.

Put the rice into a buttered fireproof dish, then sprinkle in the cheese and pour in the sauce, sprinkle a few bread crumbs on the top, then a little grated cheese, and bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes.

Cheese With Noodles, Spaghetti, Or Macaroni

1 cupful (1/4 lb.) grated cheese 3 heaping tablespoonfuls (3 ozs.) butter.

1 package medium noodles Salt and paprika to taste.

Boil the noodles in plenty of boiling salted water for twenty minutes, then drain, add the butter, cheese, salt, and paprika.

Stir over the fire in a fireproof dish till the cheese and butter are melted. Serve hot.

Cheese Appetizer

2 cupfuls (1/2 lb.) cheese 1 heaping tablespoonful (1 oz.) butter 1 can tomato soup.

2 eggs.

Some crackers.

1 salt spoonful salt.

1/2 saltspoonful paprika.

Cut the cheese into small pieces, then melt it in a fireproof dish, add the butter, seasonings, and tomato soup. When well mixed, add the eggs well beaten.

Stir until it begins to thicken, and serve at once on buttered crackers.