If there is cold boiled rice or cold mashed potato on hand, use either in place of the bread. Or, if the cold potatoes are whole, slice the potatoes, chop the meat, and make every other layer of those. A bit of some vegetable, onion, carrot, or turnip can be mixed with the meat; or use fish, oysters or clams, or hard-boiled eggs sliced, in place of the meat. As this kind of dish needs an oven, it is perhaps better for that reason in winter than in summer, unless for some cool day when there is a lire,- or if there is an oven to the oil stove.

1 If you ever visit a part of the coast where the large scallop shells wash up on the beach, collect a set of several, and use them for warming up meat or fish with crumbs on top, one for each person.

Some other supper dishes. The main dish for supper that has meat in it, or something to take the place of meat, can be a warmed-over dish, you see.

The baked-bean loaf is a very good substitute for meat.

Courtesy of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University.

Fig. 41. - Baked-bean loaf.