High-class cookery made easy

have a dozen or fourteen pâtés made of puff paste; bake and fill the pâtés. SWEETBREADS FRIED. Lay two sweetbreads to soak in cold water and salt for two hours; put them on to boil, covered in cold water and salt; simmer slowly for one hour. Remove all the grit and skin, and cut the sweetbreads in the shape of a mutton cutlet; pepper and salt, egg and bread-crumb. Dish with fried parsley and green peas in centre. LARDED FILLETS OF BEEF. Take bacon, cut as for larded sweetbreads, and lard in the same manner. Place a few pieces of chopped suet at the bottom of a stew-pan, half an onion, one clove, a slight sprinkling of flour, brown, and add one cup of second stock. Cover with a close lid, and simmer slowly for one hour. Dish the fillets of beef, skim the grease, and sprinkle a few mushrooms in the sauce, and serve. PLAIN MUTTON CUTLETS. Take one and a-quarter lb. of mutton, divide it into chops by cutting down where the vein is in the bone. There is a bone at the fleshy end of the chop, take that off. Take all the fat clean away from the bone; scrape the bone clean; flatten the meat with a mallet dipped in cold water, then dip in egg and bread-crumb; fry to a light-brown colour, and serve with tomato sauce. Garnish with a few tomatoes round the base. SWEETBREADS SERVED IN BEETROOT PÂTÉS. Cook two large beetroots cut in the shape of oyster pâtés. Have one sweetbread cut in tiny pieces, and drop into a cup of thick, white sauce. Make six beetroot pâtés, fill them up with the preparation, and garnish with tiny bits of parsley round the beetroot. The remains of cold sweetbreads, or any kind of white meat, will do for this entrée. CREAM OF CHICKEN. Take the flesh from the breast of a chicken, place it in a mortar, and pound for ten minutes. Have two slices of bread soaked in milk; press the milk from it; pound it in the mortar with the