Creamed Mushrooms

1 pound mushrooms 5 tablespoons butter 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Few grains pepper 1½ tablespoons flour 1/2 cup thin cream.

Clean mushrooms, remove caps, and cut both stems and caps in thin slices. Melt butter, add sliced mushrooms and cook three minutes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and pour over cream. Cook five minutes, stirring constantly.

Mushroom And Tomato Toast

Cut stale bread in one-third-inch slices, shape with a large round cutter and saute in butter until delicately browned. Wipe mushrooms and cut in pieces; there should be two cups; then cook in two tablespoons butter five minutes. Cook one tablespoon butter and one-half teaspoon finely chopped shallot three minutes. Add one cup tomato puree, bring to the boiling point and let simmer three minutes; then add one-half teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, and a few grains paprika. Arrange mushrooms on six rounds of bread, pour over tomato, and sprinkle with one tablespoon finely chopped parsley.

Creamed Silver Skins

Peel three cups small silver skinned onions and cook in boiling, salted water to cover, fifteen minutes. Drain, add one cup thin cream, and cook in double boiler until soft, adding three-fourths teaspoon salt the last ten minutes of the cooking.