Stewed Terrapin

Cut terrapin meat in dice, cover with cold water, and cook slowly one half hour. Mix the yolk of one hard-cooked egg with one teaspoon butter, add one fourth cup cream, season with salt, nutmeg, paprika; add terrapin meat, cook five minutes; add one tablespoon sherry, and serve on toast.

This amount is right for one terrapin.

Jugged Hare

Dress a hare. Disjoint, season with salt and pepper, and dredge with flour. Cook one quarter cup salt pork cubes in a frying pan, add hare, and cook until brown. Arrange layers of hare, chopped onion, and salt pork cubes in deep baking dish; add one cup each of stock or water and stewed tomato. Cook in slow oven three hours.

Remove hare, strain liquor, and thicken with two tablespoons each of butter and flour cooked together; add one half cup sherry and pour around hare. Garnish with Boiled Rice and serve.

Lamb, Creole Style

2 cups cold cooked lamb.

¼ cup chopped pepper.

2 tablespoons chopped onion.

½ teaspoon salt.

1 teaspoon horse-radish.

¼ cup butter.

¼ cup flour.

1 cup Brown Stock.

1 cup tomato puree.

1 teaspoon lemon juice.

Melt butter; add pepper and onion, cook five minutes; add flour; when blended, add stock and tomato; when mixture boils, add remaining ingredients; when meat is heated through, serve on a hot platter and garnish with Boiled Rice.

Chicken Tamales

3 cups chicken meat 6 red peppers ¼ cup chopped onion ½ cup vinegar.

1 cup bread crumbs 1 cup tomatoes 10 olives chopped 1 egg.

Chop the chicken meat. Chop peppers and onion and soak in vinegar one hour. Drain, add remaining ingredients. Shape like croquettes. Roll in corn meal and wrap in corn husks. Tie the ends to keep the mixture in. Steam three hours. Dry in oven ten minutes.

Stuffed Squash

Cut a summer squash in halves. Scoop out pulp, strain in cheese cloth. To the pulp add an equal amount of cracker crumbs and twice as much chopped ham or veal or shrimps. For four cups of the above mixture, add the following: Melt two tablespoons butter, add two tablespoons finely chopped pepper, one tomato cut in pieces, and one beaten egg. Add the squash mixture, and cook ten minutes. Fill squash shells and bake ten minutes.

Sweet Potato Pone

4 cups hot mashed sweet potato.

1 cup hot milk.

2 tablespoons ginger.

1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 orange rind and juice.

¼ teaspoon salt.

Cream the butter, add sugar; when creamy add remaining ingredients, beat well, pour into a buttered pan, and bake one hour in a moderate oven.

Maryland Artichokes

4 tablespoons butter ¼ cup bread crumbs 2 cups cooked artichokes few drops onion juice.

1 teaspoon chopped parsley.

¼ teaspoon salt.

1 cup milk.

Few grains cayenne.

Melt butter, add remaining ingredients, cook ten minutes, and serve on hot buttered toast.