Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book

the sweetbreads and mushrooms. Serve in shells or cases. Can be used also without mushrooms if desired. SWEETBREAD PATTIES. From MISS WILHELMINE REITZ, of Indiana, Lady Manager. Wash one pair of sweetbreads; throw them into boiling water and simmer gently twenty minutes; then throw them into cold water to blanch and cool. When cool pick them into small pieces, rejecting all the fine membrane. Chop fine a half can of mushrooms. Put a large tablespoonful of butter in a sauce pan to melt without browning; add an even tablespoonful of flour, mix until smooth; add a half pint of cream, stir continually until it boils; add a half teaspoonful of salt, a dash of white pepper; the mushrooms and sweetbreads mix and stand over boiling water for five minutes. Serve in paper cases, silver shells or in puff-paste cases. POULTRY BOILED CHICKEN. From MRS. GOVERNOR EDWIN C. BURLEIGH, of Maine, Second Vice President Board of Lady Managers. Joint the chicken; cut in small pieces; remove the skin; put into tepid water. Have ready a frying pan with hot melted butter; put the chicken into the pan and fry to a delicate brown; then put into a kettle, cover with water and boil very slowly for an hour. Season. Remove chicken and thicken gravy with flour. JAMBOLAYA. (A Spanish Creole Dish) From MISS KATHARINE L. MINOR, of Louisiana, Fourth Vice President Board of Lady Managers. Cut up the remains of a chicken or turkey, cover with water, and stew until the substance is extracted; then shred the meat. Wash one pound of rice carefully and set aside. Put one tablespoon of lard into a porcelain-lined saucepan; add a small spoon of finely chopped onion and a tomato; then put in the shredded fowl and liquid in which it was boiled, adding the rice, red pepper and salt; sufficient water must be added to cover the rice, which must cook and steam until soft, but not wet or like mush. CHICKEN LIVERS, EN BROCHETTE, WITH BACON. From MRS. COL. JAMES A. MULLIGAN, of Chicago, Lady Manager. Take eighteen fresh chicken livers; dry