It is the entrees that cooks usually invest with their greatest cunning.

Banana Compote

Boil together 1 cup sugar and two-thirds cup water for ten minutes. Add the grated rind and juice of half a lemon. When cold pour over sliced bananas. Sprinkle with finely chopped nuts and serve with whipped cream. - Mrs. Gloyd W. Wray.

Toast With Olive Oil And Cheese

Dip some toast in olive oil and arrange on a dish. Strew over some grated Parmesan cheese, pepper and lemon juice. Put them for a few minutes in an oven. Give just enough time for the cheese to melt, and serve as soon as they leave the oven. - Mrs. L. E. Sutherland.

Fruit Cocktail

Cut into small pieces and chill on ice:

2 oranges,

6 slices canned pineapple,

½ cup each figs and dates,

¼ lb. candied cherries, 2 bananas,

Sugar and lemon to taste. Serve with wafers. - Mrs. Carrie F. Law.

Escalloped Mushrooms And Peanuts

1 cup stale bread crumbs, 1 cup chopped peanuts, ½ teaspoon salt,

½ cup melted butter, 1 cup mushrooms, ½ teaspoon pepper.

Drain and cut one cup of mushrooms into ½ inch pieces. Make a rich cream sauce and pour over mushrooms. Take a baking dish, put in a layer of crumbs and peanuts, then the mushrooms, and so on until dish is filled, with crumbs and nuts on top; pour over the remainder of the sauce, and bake in hot oven until brown. Can be baked in individual dishes, too. Must be served hot. Fresh mushrooms should be parboiled very quickly in salted water. - Mrs. Arthur Traeger.

Egg Schnitzels And Cheese

Take the contents of an eight ounce package of Egg Schnitzels "Those Good Noodles," drop tbem in two quarts of boiling water, which is seasoned with one heaping teaspoonful of salt; boil in open kettle from 10 to 1 5 minutes; drain in colander shaking the water out thoroughly. Put them in a buttered baking dish, grate over this two ounces of cream cheese, add a lump of butter the size of a walnut, pour over this a cup of milk and spread bread crumbs over same and then bake for 20 minutes.

Mrs. B. C. Koch, Tremont, Ill.

Dressing

2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon chopped sour cucumber pickle,

1 teaspoon tomato catsup, 1½ cups milk. Boil until thick.

Mrs. O. B. Edmonson.

Baked Apples

11/2 cup sugar,

30 red cinnamon drops,

A little over 1 cup water.

Cook to a thick syrup. Then pour over apples that have been cored and peeled, then cook on top of stove in a shallow pan. This is enough for 10 apples. "Fine." - Mrs. J. B. Wolfenbarger.

Baked Apples With Old Fashioned Cinnamon Drops

Take the Northern Spies, enough to fill dripping pan. Pare and core, filling with butter and sugar, ½ cupful cinnamon drops, 1 cupful sugar and water to make a syrup. The drops will dissolve, then pour mixture over apples in pan and bake in slow oven until candied. These are nice, also as a salad, serve on lettuce leaves with oil dressing mixed with whipped cream. - Mrs. C. E. Beckwith.