Routine: Mix and bake kisses; early, preferably.

Open canned apricots and place in refrigerator.

Boil the rice and when cooked, drain and set in oven to steam dry. Prepare ingredients for chop suey and put in frying pan to cook. Make salad and set in refrigerator.

Chop Suey

1 pound lean beef cut in small

Pieces 1/4 pound pork cut in small pieces

1 tablespoon butter

2 cups water

1 cup finely cut celery 1 cup sliced onions 1 cup cooked mushrooms 1/2 can bean sprouts 1 tablespoon molasses or brown sugar

1 tablespoon chop suey sauce

Melt butter in frying pan and brown the meat pieces in it. Add the water and simmer twenty minutes. Then add celery, mushrooms, onions and bean sprouts, one tablespoon molasses or brown sugar, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook until celery and onions are tender, about fifteen minutes. Before serving add chop suey sauce.

Endive And Beet Salad

Wash and separate leaves of two small endive, slice two cold cooked canned beets for each person, place on endive and serve with French dressing.

Boiled Rice

Wash thoroughly two cups of rice, rubbing between the hands until all cloudiness has disappeared. Add gradually to two quarts of boiling salted water. Boil rapidly, uncovered, for fifteen or twenty minutes, or until the kernels are soft when pressed between the thumb and finger. Place in a colander and pour boiling water over the rice to remove loose starch and separate the grains. Drain and place in the oven with the door open to allow rice to dry out. The grains should be separate and distinct.

Date Kisses

1 egg white, well beaten 1/2 cup walnut meats

1/2 cup powdered sugar 1/2 cup dates, chopped

Fold sugar, walnut meats and dates into beaten egg whites. Drop on a greased pan and bake in a slow oven (300º). Recipe makes a dozen kisses.