Ingredients. - One-half a pound of macaroni. Salt. One quart of skimmed milk. Two ounces of cheese. One ounce of butter. Pepper and Cayenne pepper.

Time required, about one hour and three-quarters.

To Cook Macaroni:

1. Take half a pound of macaroni, wash it, and put it in a saucepan of cold water, with one tablespoonful of salt.

2. Put the saucepan on the fire, bring it to the boil, and let it boil gently for half an hour.

3. After that time, pour the water out of the saucepan.

4. Put one quart of skimmed milk into the saucepan.

5. Put the saucepan on the fire, just bring it to the boil, and then move it to the side of the fire, and let it simmer gently for one hour.

6. When the macaroni is sufficiently cooked and quite tender, turn it out on a hot dish, and it can be eaten with sugar or treacle.

N. B. - If liked, macaroni and cheese can be made of it.

7. For macaroni and cheese, take two ounces of cheese and grate it with a grater on to a piece of paper.

8. Take a dish, or a tin, and grease it well inside with a piece of dripping or butter.

9. When the macaroni is sufficiently cooked (as above), turn it out of the saucepan on to the greased dish.

10. Sprinkle over it pepper and salt, and two or three grains of Cayenne pepper, according to taste; or, about half a teaspoonful of mustard might be mixed with it.

11. Stir part of the grated cheese into the macaroni, and sprinkle the remainder over the top.

12. Take one ounce of butter, cut it in small pieces, and put these pieces of butter about on the top of the macaroni.

13. Put the dish in the oven (the heat should rise to 240°), or in a Dutch oven before the fire, for ten minutes; it should become a pale-brown.

14. It will then be ready for serving.