First-class price 45 cents, including bread, butter, potatoes and condiments.

Medium-sized hams should be selected, the very small ones being too lean, salt and hard, and the very large not making handsome cuts. Shave off the outside, cut slices clear across, very thin, down to the bone, drive a skewer into the block down by the bone to steady it and saw through with a small sharp saw kept for the purpose. This is a difficult and trying job with a soft ham unless good tools are kept to work with, and the ham is very liable to be torn and hacked in a very wasteful manner. The slices of ham weigh from 5 or 6 ounces to 12 ounces according as cut.

Broil the ham about 6 minutes, lay it in a hot dish. Fry 3 eggs, half turned over and dish them side by side with the ham.

Cost of material - (allowing for waste, butt and shank) ham 12, eggs 6. potatoes 1, bread and butter 5, condiments 1; 25c.