Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book

in diamond shape, and put around the dish, and the rest cut fine and put all over the ham. Garnish your dish with carrots, beets cut into flower forms, parsley, a little here and there on either side of the ham. No. 171. WHOLE CHICKEN IN GLACEE. Take out all the bones in a medium-sized chicken; 1/4 pound ham, 1/2 pound veal, 1/2 can mushrooms, 1/4 can truffles, small piece of onion, a little thyme and parsley. Chop the meat, parsley, thyme, celery, very fine together. Cut the mushrooms in slices; skin the truffles and cut them and put these into the chopped meat; pepper and salt to taste. Where the bones have been taken out stuff tightly with this stuffing; pepper and salt to taste. Tie it in a bag tightly. When done press it over night under a heavy press. Next morning take it out; cut off each end and put it into either a melon mould or charlotte mould. Now take 3 pints of the chicken water, skim off all the grease, put salt and pepper and nutmeg in it. Melt 1 box of gelatine in cold water; take 2 whites of eggs with their shells and put all in chicken water. Put on fire; stir it; let it boil 10 minutes. Strain through a flannel bag. Let it get nearly cold--enough to be dipped up with a spoon. Boil hard 2 eggs; cut the eggs in 6 slices; 1 sprig of parsley in center of egg and put at 4 sides of the chicken with parsley turned down. Pour the jelly all over it; put in ice-box to get cold. Turn it out of mould and garnish dish with water-cresses or celery, frizzed. Duck in glacee can be put up in the same way. No. 172. DEVILED CRABS. Take 1-1/2 dozen crabs; boil them done; pick them carefully out of shell; take 1/2 dozen crackers; 1 pint of milk is poured over the crackers, mashed fine. Strain the crackers through a fine sieve. Beat up 3 eggs light, and put into the strained crackers salt and