Tomato Meat Pie

Cover the bottom of a pudding dish with bread-crumbs, then a layer of cold roast mutton chopped fine, then a layer of tomatoes sliced, repeat as before, having the last layer crumbs. Season each layer highly. A dash of Cayenne is an improvement, and bits of butter with each layer of crumbs. Bake until browned. Serve hot. Very nice.

Hotch Potch

Equal parts of cold boiled meat, cold boiled potatoes chopped, and stale bread. Mix well and enclose in a crust as for chicken pie. Moisten with milk, or boiling water, or broth. Bake ½ hour. A crust of mashed potatoes spread over, or simply a thick layer of bread-crumbs dotted with bits of butter, may be used instead of pastry.

Ragout Of Cold Veal

Cut boiled or roasted veal in nice slices. Flour and fry in butter till a light brown. Take up and turn a little hot water into the butter they were fried in. Mix a little flour or water together and stir into the gravy. Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice, or catsup. Slice in an onion if desired. Put in the meat and stew until very hot. Serve.

Deviled Ham

Pry slices of cold boiled ham. Keep warm while stirring into the gravy 4 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, mixed with 1 teaspoonful of mustard, 1 teaspoonful of sugar, ½ teaspoon-ful of catsup. Let this boil up once, and pour over the ham.

Beef Balls

Mince cold roast beef (rare cooked is better). Add 2 cups of mashed potatoes to 1 of minced beef, yolk of 1 egg, 2 or 3 tablespoonfuls of sweet milk. Form into flat cakes. Dredge with flour and fry until nicely browned in hot beef dripping. Garnish with parsley. A very little minced onion is an addition. Instead of frying they may be browned in a hot oven fifteen minutes.

Minced Ham With Eggs

Mix ½ a pound of cracker-crumbs with an equal quantity of finely-minced lean boiled ham. Moisten this mixture with a little hot water in which a small piece of butter is dissolved. Put the mixture in a baking dish. Make depressions in it. Place in each the yolk and white of 1 egg. Bake a delicate brown. Any other meat hash may be served in the same way.

Minced Veal

1½ cups rich milk.

1 tablespoonful cornstarch.

1 tablespoonful of butter creamed with the cornstarch.

1 teaspoonful minced parsley.

Salt and pepper to taste. Heat the milk to scalding and pour over the cornstarch and butter, stirring smoothly. Turn this over 2 cupfuls of minced cold veal (lean). Let it boil up once and pour over slices of buttered toast. This dressing may be used in the same way for cold fowl.

Beef Fricasseed

Cut cold roast beef in small pieces. Put in a stewpan with a good-sized piece of butter, some finely-minced onion, a little water with salt and curry powder (see Soups) to taste. Simmer fifteen minutes and serve hot with a ring of boiled rice surrounding it. Omit the curry powder and chop a small onion with it instead if preferred.