Rechauffe Soup.

Chickens with Mushroom Sauce.

Cabbage Sprouts.

Lobster Croquettes.

Boiled Macaroni.

Nursery Plum Pudding.

Rechauffe Soup

Excellent a soup as ox-tail deserves repetition, and the probability is that, since Friday is a fast day from meat with Roman Catholic servants, you have enough soup left over for your family proper. Warm it up, making very hot, but not to boiling. If you like, you car put some dice of crisp fried bread in the tureen.

Lobster Croquettes

To a can of preserved lobster, chopped fine, add pepper, salt, and powdered mace. Mix with this one-fourth as much bread-crumbs as you have meat, work in two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and make into egg-shaped rolls. Roll these in raw egg, then in cracker-dust, and fry in butter or very sweet lard. Serve dry and hot with cresses or parsley laid around them.

Chickens With Mushroom Sauce

Split a pair of chickens down the back as for broiling, and lay in a dripping-pan, with two cups of boiling water, a little salt, poured over them. Cover very securely with another pan of the same size - inverted - and cook an hour and a half if the fowls are of fair size. Baste at least six times; twice with batter in which has been mixed a little pepper; three times, copiously, with their own gravy, and, just before they are done, again with butter. Boil half a can of mushrooms ten minutes in clear, hot water. Drain and mince them very fine. Take up the chickens and keep hot in a covered dish. . Put the gravy into a saucepan; add a little chopped onion; boil three minutes, thicken with browned flour; and stir in the chopped mushrooms. Simmer, covered, five minutes, and pour half over the chickens, the rest into a sauce-boat. Save all the gravy left after dinner.

Cabbage Sprouts

Wash, trim, and boil in hot, salted water, with a bit of streaked salt pork, an inch square. When tender, drain, season, and chop fine. Stir in a tablespoonful of melted butter and the juice of half a lemon. Eat very hot.

Boiled Macaroni

Break half a pound of pipe macaroni into short lengths. Cover well with boiling water, salted, and boil - not too fast - about twenty minutes, or until tender and clear at the edges. Drain well; pour a little into a hot, deep dish, and butter it, then strew with grated cheese. Do this three times in filling the dish, with cheese scattered over the top.

Nursery Plum Pudding

1 scant cup of raw rice.

3 pints of milk.

2 tablespoonfuls of butter.

4 tablespoonfuls of sugar.

1/2 lb. raisins, seeded, and cut in half.

3 well-beaten eggs.

Soak the rice two hours in a farina-kettle, just covered with warm water. When all the water is soaked up, shake the rice hard, to reach that at the bottom, and add a pint of milk. Simmer gently, still in the inner kettle, until the rice is again dry, and quite tender. Shake up anew, and add another pint of milk. When this is hot, put in the raisins, dredged with flour; cover the saucepan and cook twenty minutes. Turn into a bowl; put with it the butter, rice-flour, the remaining pint of milk, heated and mixed with the beaten eggs and sugar, and stir all up thoroughly. Bake in a buttered pudding-dish, about forty minutes. Eat warm with butter and sugar, or sugar and cream.