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of Bread-flour and a Little Salt
Beat the egg and half the milk, adding the flour gradually, to make the
batter smooth. Salt, and add the last half-cupful of milk. Put one clam
into one teaspoonful of batter and drop into boiling lard. Serve hot.

=Fish Balls=
1 Cupful of Hot Mashed Potatoes 1/2 Cupful of Shredded Cod-fish 2
Teaspoonfuls of Melted Butter 2 Tablespoonfuls of Milk
Put the fish into a piece of cheese-cloth, let cold water run over it, and
squeeze dry. Mix ingredients all together. Take a little flour in the hand
and roll half a tablespoonful of the mixture between the palms, to the
size of a small peach. Fry in deep fat.

=To Boil a Lobster=

Have a large kettle on the fire with plenty of boiling water, deep
enough to cover the lobster well. Put into this one cupful of salt, if you
cannot get the sea-water. When the water is galloping, put in the lobster,
head foremost, and keep it under water. Boil from twenty to thirty-five
minutes according to size.

=To Dress Lobsters Cold=
Crack the shell of the claws carefully, remove the meat and place on a
platter. Turn the lobster on its back, lay a heavy knife on the middle of
the tail, all the way up to the body. Give it a gentle blow with a hammer,
then with both hands turn back the shell and draw out the tail intact.
Twist off the claws from the under side of the body and remove the
body from the shell. Open and remove the stomach and sandbags. Open
the tail in length, halfway through, on the under side, remove the black
vein from the body to the end. Dress with parsley and serve.

=Baked Mackerel=
1 Mackerel 3 Small Slices of Salt Pork Salt to Taste
Split open the mackerel, remove head and insides, wash clean, and lay
in a baking-pan on a well buttered paper or cheese-cloth, the skin side
down. Spread over this slices of salt pork and a little salt. Bake in
moderate oven for twenty minutes, or half an hour. This is much nicer
than fried mackerel.

=Oysters on Toast=
Toast as many slices of bread as you require. Wipe enough oysters to
cover them and season with pepper and salt. Put a little hot water over
the bread and place in a very hot oven, until the edges of the oysters
curl. Serve hot, with a white sauce.

=Baked Shad=
Make a nice dressing of five or six crackers, according to size of family
(bread crumbs will do). Roll fine, or soak until soft in milk (water will
do). Season to taste with poultry dressing, salt and add a small piece of
butter. Wash the shad and stuff. Have a large sheet of white paper, well

buttered, or a piece of cheese-cloth. Put into a baking-pan and set in the
oven. Bake one hour. Spanish mackerel is fine baked in the same way.
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=MEAT DISHES=
=A La Mode Beef=
3 Pounds of Beef 6 Onions 4 or 5 White Turnips Potatoes Salt
Take three pounds of a cheap cut of beef. Wash, put into an iron pan,
sprinkle over it salt to taste. Pare six onions, more or less, according to
size of family, and prepare four or five small white turnips sliced thin.
Lay these around the meat, and pour over all a quart of cold water. Put
into the oven and bake three hours. Pare potatoes enough for the family,
putting them in an hour and a half before serving. This is a most
delicious way to cook beef. As the water cooks away, add more.
Thicken the gravy, with flour wet with water, as you would with any
roast meat.

=Beefsteak Pie=
2 Pounds of Beef (any cheap cut will do) 1 Onion 1 Tablespoonful of
Salt
Cut the meat into small pieces; cover with cold water, salt and put into
the oven; cut the onion into small pieces and add. Bake three hours in
an earthen dish. Half an hour before serving, put over the top a crust,
made of two cupfuls of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of
baking-powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt, and one tablespoonful of
lard. Wet with water or milk, as for biscuits.

=Beef Stew with Dumplings=
3 Pounds of Shin-bone with Meat 6 Potatoes 2 Large Onions 1
Tablespoonful of Salt
Wash the meat, put into a kettle, cover with cold water and boil four
hours. Add the salt, and more water, as it boils away. Pare the onions,
wash and slice thin; put them in with the boiling meat, allowing two
hours for cooking. Pare potatoes, wash, slice thin; put them in with the