Practical vegetarian cookery

pound of old cheese grated. Add these to the flour and milk and mix all, beating briskly for several minutes. Put three ounces of butter on a frying pan, and when it is boiling hot pour in the mixture and cook to a nice brown on both sides, turning carefully. Serve on a hot dish. EGG AND ASPARAGUS. Cut about two dozen stalks of asparagus into inch lengths and boil tender. Drain, pour over a cupful of drawn butter; stir until hot, turn into a baking dish. Break about six eggs on top, put a bit of butter on each, with salt, and pepper; put into a quick oven until the eggs are “set.” DEVILLED EGGS. Boil the eggs for twenty minutes, remove the shells, cut each egg in half without breaking the whites; take out the yolks and pound them in a mortar, adding cayenne, salt and curry powder. Stuff the whites with this paste and join the eggs to their original shape. Cut off just sufficient of each broad end to enable them to stand, and arrange them thus on a dish in a bed of cress or parsley. EGGS ON TOAST. Put one tablespoonful of butter in a chaffing dish, and when bubbling add one tablespoonful of flour, one half teaspoonful of salt, one half saltspoonful of pepper, and, gradually, one cupful of milk. Add the whites of three hard boiled eggs, chopped fine. When hot, pour over three slices of toast. Rub the yolks through a strainer over all and garnish with parsley. SAVORY SAUCES AND GRAVIES. Nut butter is an excellent substitute for meat essence in gravies, stocks, and sauces. It should be used in the proportion of one tablespoonful to one quart of water. BROWN SAUCE. Heat a pint of thin cream; when boiling add a tablespoonful of flour, browned in the oven and rubbed to a smooth paste with a little cold milk; salt to taste; cook thoroughly for ten minutes; then add one cupful of hot, stewed, strained tomato. Beat thoroughly. TOMATO SAUCE, NO. 1. Melt one tablespoonful butter, add one tablespoonful