Baked Rice And Tomatoes

One cup of cold rice and two good-sized tomatoes. Alternate layers, well-seasoned, with cracker crumbs on top. Bake.

Escalloped Tomatoes

One pint tomatoes, one scant pint cracker crumbs, three table-spoons butter, one teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon pepper. Put layer of tomatoes in baking dish; dredge with salt and pepper and dot with butter. Now put in a layer of crumbs; continue this till all are used, having crumbs and butter for last layer. Bake thirty minutes.-Miss Huebner.

Stuffed Tomatoes With Macaroni

Select a number of ripe tomatoes that are smooth and firm, scoop out the seeds and fill cavities with cooked macaroni; add salt, pepper, a bit of butter, a little grated cheese, and bake thirty minutes in a hot oven.

Fried Tomatoes

Cut in halves and dust each surface with salt, pepper and enough very fine bread crumbs to dry them. Have some hot butter in the frying pan and brown the tomatoes on both sides. Drop bits of but-ter between and stand over a moderate fire to cook very slowly. When tender take up very carefully and serve on heated platter.

They are sometimes finished with a cream gravy as follows: Pour over them enough cream to nearly cover them, let come to a boil and simmer five minutes, baste carefully and thicken gravy with two eggs (yolks) beaten with a little cold cream. - Ida Butler.

Baked Eggs With Tomatoes

Select large smooth tomatoes, cut a slice from smooth ends and scoop out seeds and soft pulp. Sprinkle inside with salt, pepper, butter and toasted bread crumbs. Break an egg into each tomato, add more seasoning and toasted crumbs and bake in oven twenty-five or thirty minutes. - Mrs. Sam Helck.

Fried Ripe Tomatoes

Take half ripe tomatoes, slice one-fourth inch thick; dredge with flour, sprinkle with salt, pepper. Fry in half butter and half lard until tender. Make a sauce by pouring milk in the juice left, until it boils.

Baked Peppers

Remove seeds from peppers. To one cup of bread crumbs, add one cup of cheese, some cold meat, chopped fine, also a half red pepper, chopped. Mix these ingredients, put in pepper cases and bake in buttered pan.

Parsnips Fried In Bacon

Boil your parsnips until tender, in salt water. Drain and put them in a frying pan in which the slices of bacon are partly fried, and brown them nicely. Serve with the slices of bacon as a garnish.-Mrs. Maude White.

Salsify

Scrape and put in fresh water. Put on to boil in hot water, when done mash and season. Make into cakes and dip in beaten egg and fine bread crumbs. Fry in hot lard.

Baked Pumpkin Or Squash

Cut the pumpkin first in halves, then in quarters. Remove the seeds, but not the rind. Place in a baking pan with the rind down-ward, and bake in a slow oven until tender. Season with salt, pepper and butter. When done, serve in the rind. Serve it by spoonfuls as you would mashed potatoes.