Price in first-class restaurants 15c - a vegetable side dish of less than 1/2 pound.

1/2 pound macaroni - 1/2 a package.

1/2 cup grated cheese.

1 cup thick stewed tomatoes.

1 cup brown meat gravy.

Pepper.

This is the favorite way with the Italians. The dish need not be baked. They simply boil the macaroni and then make it rich, not to say greasy, with the other articles and gravy from the meat dishes.

Break the macaroni into three-inch lengths, throw it into boiling water and let cook twenty minutes. Drain it, put it into a baking pan, mix in the grated cheese, the tomatoes, the gravy, salt and pepper and, if necessary, a lump of butter. Mix up and let simmer together about half an hour, either in a slack oven or on the stove hearth. It will be all eaten if not made too strong flavored with tomatoes or too salt - the common mistakes.

Cost of material - macaroni 10, tomatoes a pint stewed down 8, cheese 2, gravy 2; 22c for 6 or 8 dishes.