What and how much.

1 pint cold baked beans 1 egg, beaten 1 cupful bread crumbs Salt and pepper

1 tablespoonful finely minced onion

2 tablespoonfuls tomato catsup

How to make. Combine the ingredients, and shape the mixture into a loaf. Bake it for twenty-five minutes. Serve with strips of broiled bacon on the top.

With baked beans, one likes Boston brown bread.

Boston Brown Bread

What and how much.

Corn meal

Rye or Graham

Salt

Soda

Molasses

Thick sour milk

Butter (melted)

11/2 cup 2 cups I teaspoonful

1 teaspoonful 1 cup

2 cups

2 tablespoonfuls

How to make. Mix in the order given, stirring the molasses and milk together first. Put the mixture in a greased pail, cover tightly, and put the pail in a kettle of water to boil 3 to 5 hours.

In winter, a stew of clams or oysters made with milk is a comfortable or, as some one has said, a "com-forting "dish. These are not found fresh near Pleasant Valley, but canned oysters or clams are safe if they are put up in a good cannery.

Marjorie Allen tried making a milk or cream vegetable soup one cold winter evening, and the family enjoyed it thoroughly. (See page 231.)

We seem, in selecting the main supper dish, to be searching for something that satisfies the appetite, is nutritious, and does not make much work at supper time.

Exercises And Problems

1. Explain why the cheese toast takes the place of meat.

2. Why is it just as well to use skim as whole milk in this dish?

3. Make out several plans for summer suppers and winter suppers.

4. Make a list of other dishes that are good for supper.