Halibut Chowder.

Chicken Pot-pie, with Dumplings.

Baked Tomatoes.

Sea-Kale.

Gherkin Pickles.

Charlotte Russe.

Halibut Chowder

3 lbs. of halibut, freed from bones, and cut into strips two inches long. 6 parboiled potatoes, sliced.

2 cups of milk.

1 good-sized onion, sliced. Chopped parsley.

3 tablespoonfuls of butter, rolled in flour, with butter for 6 Boston crackers, split. Enough boiling water to cover fish and potatoes. Pepper and salt.

Put a layer of fish in the bottom of a pot; season, and sprinkle with parsley. Hide this with sliced potato. More fish, and yet more potatoes, until all are in, when cover with boiling water. Put on the lid, and simmer half an hour after the boil recommences. Have ready the hot milk in another saucepan; stir in the floured butter. Dip the crackers in boiling water, butter and salt them, and line the bottom of your tureen with them. Pour in the boiling milk; then the fish and potatoes. Send around sliced lemon with it.

Chicken Pot-Pie, With Dumplings

Clean and cut up the chicken as for fricassee. Put a good layer of salt pork in the bottom of a broad, not too deep pot; then a small onion, sliced, the chicken, peppered, and enough cold water to cover it well. Over this lay a thick sheet of good "family" pie-crust. Stew one hour and a half; then brown the crust by putting a red-hot stove-cover on the top of the pot. Take off the crust with care, and set by. Takeout the chicken and arrange upon a hot-water dish. If the gravy has boiled down too low, add a little hot water. Drop in while the liquor is boiling hot, squares or rounds of raw pie-paste; cook ten minutes, and lay upon the chicken. Stir into the gravy a large spoonful of butter rolled in flour; boil up, and pour upon the dumplings and chicken. Lay the crust on top.

Sea-Kale

Boil fifteen minutes in hot, salted water. Drain well, and return to the fire, with a spoonful of butter, pepper, salt, and a little lemon-juice. Stir, or toss, five minutes, and heap upon rounds of buttered toast in a hot dish.

Baked Tomatoes

Peel and slice large, ripe tomatoes. Chop fine a little streaked salt pork, or ham. Butter a pudding-dish, and cover the bottom with slices of tomato. Season with pepper and sugar, and strew with bread-crumbs. Then scatter chopped pork over it. Fill the dish in this order, having crumbs at the top. Cover closely, and bake half an hour, or until the juice bubbles up at the sides. Brown nicely, and serve in the dish.

Charlotte Russe

A large sponge-cake. 1 pint of cream. 1/2 lb. of sugar, powdered. Whites of 2 eggs.

Line a tin mould with straight sides with slices of cake, having the bottom in one piece, if possible. Whip the cream in a syllabub-churn, and, with your egg-beater, whisk into this, gradually, the frothed whites and the sugar, flavoring to taste. Fill the cake-lined mould with this, cover with more slices, and set in ice for an hour or so. Pass a knife around the inside of the mould to loosen the cake, and invert upon a plate. Sift powdered sugar over it.