Green Turtle Soup

Cook this soup the day before it is to be used, that every particle of fat may be removed. Chop up the coarse part of the meat with the bones and put on to boil with all kinds of soup vegetable?, onions and pepper and salt. Skim it well and allow it to boil gence four hours. It is well to add a veal bone to this stock. When all is boiled to a pulp, strain, and let stand over night. The next day remove from the top every vestige of fat, and put it on to boil. Cut up in small pieces the finer turtle meat and the green fat, pour it into the turtle stock, and simmer gently two hours. It is well to let the green fat boil up once in clear water before putting in the soup, so as to remove all impurities. The turtle eggs should be boiled alone for four hours, placed in the tureen and the hot soup poured over them. Before serving melt a large tablespoonful of butter and brown with it 2 tablespoonfuls of flour. Stir smoothly into the soup. Flavor with 2 tablespoonfuls of walnut catsup or mushroom catsup. Just before serving add 1 wineglass of Madeira wine, or ¾ wineglass of lemon juice. Be sure it does not boil after the wine is added, as that takes away the flavor. Horse-meat balls are added by some cooks.

Baked Bananas

Raw bananas are really indigestible. Baked they are an ideal food for children, nervous persons, anaemics, and brain-workers.

Bake in the skin for fifteen or twenty minutes until they are quite soft and burst the skins.

Second, remove from the skin and lay in a baking pan with a very little water. Bake until perfectly soft. Serve hot. Some prefer to dust sugar over the top and sprinkle with lemon juice. This gives an added flavor. A nice dessert.

Wine Jelly For Invalids

One 2-ounce package of gelatin soaked two hours in a large cup, 2 cups of white wine or sherry, 1 lemon, all the juice, and half the grated peel, 2 cups of boiling water. Put the soaked gelatin, lemon and sugar together, and cover for one-half hour. Pour on the boiling water, stir and strain. Add the wine, strain again through a flannel bag without squeezing. Put in mould to cool. Wet the mould in cold water first. This can be served with whipped cream, or plain, and is very strengthening.

Cheese Straws

Roll thin a rich pie crust and spread thickly with grated cheese. Add a dash of cayenne pepper. Fold over several times; roll again and spread with cheese. Repeat this process three times. Then roll out one-fourth of an inch thick, cut in strips four inches wide, and then cut in sticks one-fourth inch wide, or even narrower. Bake a light brown. Put buttered sheets of paper in the baking tin. Pile cob-house fashion on the plate, or tie in bundles with bright ribbons. Serve with salads.