Sweet-and-sour bananas. Put six ounces of brown sugar and some pepper berries tied in cheese cloth, in one quart of vinegar and bring to the boiling point. Then add three sliced green peppers and boil for two minutes, add six sliced pimentos and remove the pepper berries. Peel one dozen bananas and put them in an earthern jar and pour the boiling vinegar and peppers over them. Let stand for twelve hours and serve cold.

Consommé Massenet. Garnish the consommé with boiled carrots cut in half-moon shape, and boiled macaroni cut in pieces one-half inch long. Sprinkle with chopped chervil.

Blood pudding. Made of pork blood, etc., and may be obtained from your butcher. Broil or fry in butter.

Potage Reine Margot. To cream of chicken add some almonds mashed fine, mixed with a little cream, and strained. This is called almond milk.

Sauce Riche. Mix a tablespoonful of anchovy paste with a pint of Hollandaise sauce, add one truffle, three heads of French mushrooms, and one dozen shrimps cut in small squares.

Breast of chicken, Alexandra. Take the breasts of a raw roasting chicken, season with salt and pepper, put in sauté pan with butter. Cook until nice and yellow, add one-half cup of cream and finish cooking. Place the breasts on two oval croustades filled with string beans sauté. Add the cream gravy to a cup of Mornay sauce, with a little paprika, cover the breasts with this sauce and bake in oven till golden yellow. Serve on napkin with parsley in branches.

Vanilla Bavarois. Boil one quart of milk with one-half of a split vanilla bean. Stir in gradually, until it gets creamy, six ounces of sugar mixed with the yolks of four eggs. Add five leaves of gelatine that have been washed in cold water, stirring until melted. Strain, when cold add one pint of rich, very stiff, whipped cream. Pour into moulds of fancy shape and place in ice box for about two hours. Serve with vanilla sauce or sweetened whipped cream flavored with vanilla.

Scrambled eggs with fine herbs. Add to the eggs some fine cut chives, parsley and chervil.

Croustade Cancalaise. Drain off the juice from pickled oysters and fill the croustades with them. Cover with sauce Tyrolienne and garnish with chopped hard-boiled eggs.

Consommé Fleury. Sliced sorrel boiled in water for a second, boiled rice, small asparagus tips and peas, in equal parts. Serve in consommé.

Ragout à la Deutsch. One-half pound of sliced raw tenderloin of beef, and three lamb kidneys, season with salt and pepper and fry in frying pan with very hot butter. When done remove the meat and place in a deep dish. Put three chopped shallots and a green pepper cut in small dices, in the butter in frying pan and simmer for a minute. Drain, add two cups of brown gravy and one cup of sauté potatoes. Mix with the meat, but do not allow to boil. Serve from the deep dish or casserole.

Potage Faubonne. Make a purée of white beans and bind with the yolk of one egg mixed with a little cream. Serve small squares of bread fried in butter, separate.

Médaillon of sole, St. Victor. Cook the fish in white wine and allow to become cold. Mix the stock with white wine sauce, bring to a boil and reduce until it becomes very thick. Strain and mix with equal parts of mayonnaise, whipping well so it will not turn. Let the sauce become cold and pour over the fish, and place in the ice box. Boil three eggs for seven minutes, cool, split in two crosswise, remove the yolk and fill with fresh caviar. Turn the eggs upside down and cover with some of the fish sauce, colored a delicate rose. Cut some peeled tomatoes in the form of strawberries, and make a vegetable salad mixed with a little thick mayonnaise. Make a pyramid of the salad in the middle of the dish, place the fillet of sole around it, and garnish with the eggs and tomatoes. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.

German pancakes. Two eggs, one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of flour, a pinch of salt, a little nutmeg and one teaspoonful of sugar. Mix well. Have a large frying pan ready with hot butter. Be sure and have the butter run all over the inside of the pan so the pancake will not stick to the sides when it rises. Pour in the batter and place in oven. When nearly done, powder with sugar and put back in oven to brown. Serve with lemon and powdered sugar.

Potage Mathilda. Cream of cucumbers with small squares of bread fried in butter.

Rice Créole. Put in sauce pan three ounces of butter, one chopped onion, a slice of raw ham cut in small squares, and one green pepper cut in small dices. Simmer until the onions are soft, then add one cup of washed rice, one peeled and chopped tomato, two red peppers (pimentos), cut in small dices, two cups of stock or bouillon, and a little salt. Cover and put in oven until the rice is soft. Before serving add two spoonsful of grated Parmesan or Swiss cheese. This rice may be used for stuffing green peppers, tomatoes, onions, etc.

Chicken croquettes. Three cups of chicken hash made from white and dark meat, one cup of chopped fresh or canned mushrooms, and one-half onion chopped very fine. Simmer in butter. Then add two cups of Allemande or cream sauce, season with salt and Cayenne pepper. Put on fire and reduce until thick. Bind with the yolks of two eggs. Allow to become cold, and form in pyramid shape or in the shape of a large cork, bread, and fry in swimming fat until well colored. Serve on napkin with sauce separate, or around the croquettes. A chopped truffle may be added before simmering, if desired.

Sweetbread croquettes. Three cups of sweetbreads parboiled and cut in small dices, and if desired, one chopped truffle. Simmer with chopped onions, and then follow recipe for chicken croquettes.

Lobster croquettes. Three cups of lobster cut in small dices, one cup of canned or fresh mushrooms, and one truffle chopped fine. Simmer all in butter, then add one-half glass of sherry wine and cook for two minutes, then add two cups of cream sauce and reduce. Bind with the yolks of three eggs. Follow directions for chicken croquettes for cooking and serving.

Petite marmite. Put in a vessel with cold water to cover, five pounds of short ribs of beef and a soup hen. Season with a spoonful of salt, and bring to a boil, and skim carefully so the broth will be clear. Then add two large carrots, three turnips, a piece of cabbage, one stalk of celery and four leeks, all tied in a cheese cloth; one bouquet garni, and a large marrow bone. When beef and fowl are well done remove, take off the skin and fat and cut the meat in pieces one inch square. Remove the bouquet garni, and cut the cabbage, carrots, turnips, celery and leeks in round pieces one-half inch in diameter. Put the beef, chicken and vegetables in another pot and strain the broth over them. Boil slowly for five minutes. Have your butcher saw some raw marrow bones in wafers as thin as paper, and add them to the soup at the last moment. Serve very hot in soup tureen, with a sprinkle of chopped chervil. Cut some crust of bread or rolls in diamond shape, bake in oven till brown, and serve separate. Special earthern petite marmite pots are carried at the large stores, and are preferable to tureens for serving.

Broiled lobster. Cut a live lobster in two lengthwise, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with olive oil, and broil on hot iron. Serve with maître d'hôtel sauce, garnished with lemons and parsley.

Cléo potatoes. Cut raw potatoes in pear shapes the size of an egg, parboil in salt water, then put in a well-buttered pan pointed end up, sprinkle with melted butter and roast in oven, basting all the time till brown. When done, salt and serve on napkin, garnished with parsley.

String bean salad. Put in salad bowl some cold boiled string beans, sprinkle with very finely-sliced chives, chopped parsley, salt and fresh-ground black pepper, and one-third vinegar and two-thirds olive oil.

Potage Duchesse. Cream of rice with royal in strips.

Fillet of sole, Marguery. Prepare the sole as for "au vin blanc." Place on top of each fillet two parboiled mussels, and two heads of French mushrooms, cover with sauce "au vin blanc," sprinkle with bread crumbs made from stale rolls, and a little butter, and bake in hot oven until a light yellow color.

Eggs ministerielle. Cut sandwich bread in slices about two inches thick. With a round cutter about three inches in diameter cut out the white of the bread. With another cutter about an inch and a half in diameter cut out the center of the round slices, leaving a ring of bread. Soak these rings in thick cream for a second, put on buttered dish, break an egg in the center of each, salt and pepper, cover with a light cream sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese, and bake in oven for about eight minutes.

Pont Neuf potatoes. Three times the size of regular "French" fried potatoes.

Sweetbreads braisé au jus. (Glacé). Place in buttered sauté pan one sliced onion, one carrot, a little parsley, a bay leaf and a clove, and a few pepper berries. Put three parboiled sweetbreads, which may be larded with fresh or salted pork if desired, on top, add one-half cup of bouillon, salt, and put over fire to boil. When reduced place in oven, add a small quantity of meat extract, and glacé by basting continually with its own broth, until well browned. When done lay on platter and strain the broth over them.

Bisque d'écrevisses. Remove the tails of three dozen écrevisses. Use two-thirds of the shells, broken up, to make the soup, and one-third for écrevisse butter. Simmer in butter one onion, one carrot, a leek and a little celery, all cut up; with one bay leaf, some thyme and one spoonful of black pepper berries. Then add the broken shells, two spoonsful of flour, one glass of white wine, one-half glass of brandy, one gallon of bouillon and one cup of raw rice. Season with salt and Cayenne pepper, cook till rice is very soft, and strain through fine sieve. Bisque should be a little thicker than other cream soups. Before serving add two spoonsful of écrevisse butter and stir well, then add the écrevisse tails and one-half glass of Cognac.

Écrevisse butter. Break fine in mortar some écrevisse (crayfish) shells. Put in sauce pan with one-half pound of butter, one-half onion, one-half carrot, a small piece of celery, one-half of a leek stalk, a little thyme, one bay leaf and a few pepper berries, and simmer in oven till butter is clarified, or clear, and all the other liquids evaporated. Squeeze through cheese cloth into a bowl standing in ice. The butter will rise to the top, and may be easily removed when cold. This butter is used with many sauces, soups, etc.

Lobster butter. Use lobster shells and prepare in the same manner as écrevisse butter. This butter is used for lobster sauce, Newburg dishes, soups, etc.

Potage bonne femme. Purée of white beans with Julienne of vegetables.

Fillet of sole, Florentine. Put the fillet of one sole in a buttered pan, salt, add one-half glass of water mixed with white wine, and boil until done. In the center of a buttered platter put a cup of purée of spinach and place the boiled fillet on top, cover with Mornay sauce, with grated cheese and small bits of butter on top of the sauce. Bake in oven until brown.

Roast ruddy duck. Roast for twelve minutes, in the same manner as teal duck.

Baba au rhum. One-half pound of flour, one ounce of yeast, three ounces of butter, two ounces of sugar, two ounces of currants and the rind and juice of one lemon. Dissolve the yeast in one cup of warm milk and make a soft sponge with half of the flour, cover and let rise in a warm place. Work the sugar and the butter together until creamy, add the eggs and lemon and the rest of the flour. When the sponge has risen to twice its original size mix with the batter; at the same time adding the currants. Fill baba moulds half full and let raise until nearly to the edge of the moulds. Bake in a rather hot oven. When done soak well in a syrup made with one pint of water, one pound of sugar, one gill of rum and the juice of a lemon. Pour some of the sauce over the babas when serving.

Savarin au kirsch. Make a dough the same as for baba au rhum, but omit the currants. Fill a round crown-shaped savarin mould half full, allow to raise, and bake. Soak in a syrup made of one pint of water, one pound of sugar, and one gill of kirschwasser. Serve warm.

Savarin Chantilly. Same as savarin au kirsch, but decorated with whipped cream, and served cold.

Savarin Montmorency. Like savarin au kirsch, but serve hot with stewed stoned cherries as sauce.

Savarin mirabelle. Same as savarin au kirsch, but serve hot with stewed stoned mirabelles.

Stewed tripe, Blanchard. Simmer a chopped onion in three ounces of butter, add one pint of bouillon, or stock, or chicken broth, one spoonful of flour, one pound of tripe cut in strips, one cupful of raw round potatoes cut out with a small-size "Parisian" spoon, one bouquet garni and one gill of white wine. Cover and cook for one hour, or until potatoes are very soft. Before serving remove bouquet garni and sprinkle with fresh-chopped parsley.

Potage Flamande. Potato soup mixed with brunoise.

Frogs' legs, sauté à sec. To have the best flavor frogs should be killed just before cooking. Remove the skins and cut off the hind legs, salt and pepper them and roll in flour. Sauté one dozen frogs' legs in three ounces of hot butter in a frying pan, for a few minutes over a good fire. Then add a chopped shallot and let simmer for a few minutes. The legs should then be crisp. Serve on a platter with chopped parsley and lemon.

Roast sirloin of beef, Porte Maillot. Roast the sirloin, serve with sauce Madère, garnish with small French carrots, celery braisé, lettuce braisé and château potatoes.

Lettuce braisé. Wash four heads of large romaine lettuce in cold water, parboil in salt water, cool, and squeeze dry with the hands. Cut each head in four lengthwise, remove the stem, season with salt and pepper, and fold so both ends come together. Place a piece of pigskin in the bottom of a buttered pan, put the lettuce on top, and add a sliced onion, one carrot and a bay leaf. Cover with buttered manilla paper and allow to simmer for a while. Then add one cup of stock, put in oven and cook until soft. Used for garnishing entrées, etc.

Biscuit glacé. Put in double boiler eight yolks of eggs, one-half pound of sugar, and one-half of a split vanilla bean. Cook until it thickens, stirring continually. Then remove from the fire and beat with an egg whip until cold and very light. Remove the vanilla bean, add one quart of whipped cream and mix lightly. Put in fancy paper cases or fancy moulds, and freeze. Before serving decorate the tops with whipped cream, or any kind of ice cream or water ice.

Biscuit glacé, St. Francis. Fill some oblong paper cases with biscuit glacé foundation, put in ice box to freeze, decorate the tops with pistachio and strawberry ice cream before serving.

Biscuit glacé of strawberry, raspberry, coffee, pistachio, chocolate, apple, mapleine, pineapple, kirsch, peppermint, etc. Same as Biscuit Glacé, but decorate with the desired ice cream or water ice before serving.

Broiled Finnan haddie. (Smoked haddock). Remove the bones, roll in oil and put on iron to broil. When done on both sides place on platter, cover with maître d'hôtel sauce or plain melted butter, garnish with parsley in branches and quartered lemons.

Cream of rice. Melt in sauce pan two ounces of butter, add one-quarter pound of rice flour, and when hot, one and one-half pints of chicken broth. Boil for ten minutes and strain. Season with salt and Cayenne pepper, and add one-half pint of hot cream and a small piece of butter before serving.

Salted Pecans. Roast one-half pound of shelled pecans to a light brown color, wet with a solution of water and a little gum Arabic, or the white of an egg, while they are still hot, and then dust over with one spoonful of fine table salt and stir until dry.

Salted English walnuts. Follow directions for pecans.

Fillet of flounder, Café Riche. Put the fillets in a buttered pan, cover with white wine, and boil. When done place on platter, pour Génoise sauce with the addition of a spoonful of beef extract, over the fish.

Spring lamb tenderloin, Thomas. Broil the tenderloin and dish up on buttered toast, and cover with sauce Colbert. Garnish on one side with small boiled potatoes covered with cream sauce, and flageolet beans on the other.

Flageolet beans. These are French beans and can be obtained in cans. Put on the fire in salt water, bring to the boiling point, and drain. Add sweet butter, salt and pepper, mix well and serve immediately.

Egg dressing, for salads. Chop two hard-boiled eggs, and put in salad bowl with one-half teaspoonful of French mustard, one pinch of salt, some fresh-ground pepper, a little chopped parsley, a little chervil, two spoonsful of vinegar and four of olive oil. Mix well.

Strawberry parfait. With one quart of strawberry ice cream mix one pint of sweet whipped cream. Put in moulds or glasses and serve with whipped cream on top.

Parfaits. Pistachio, vanilla, chocolate, peach and café, all prepared the same as strawberry.

Neapolitan parfait. Put in mould or glass, three kinds of parfaits, as strawberry, vanilla and pistachio. Allow to become very hard in ice box, and serve whipped cream on top.

Wilson parfait. Peach parfait with the addition of some chopped peeled peaches. Serve with whipped cream and a crystallized violet on top.

Canapé Monte Carlo. Purée of foie gras lightly mixed with a little stiff mayonnaise and spread on thin toast. Garnish around the edge with chopped yolks of hard-boiled eggs, and serve on napkins with parsley in branches.

Eggs Persanne. Place hot poached eggs on a round toast, cover with tomato sauce and sprinkle with fine chopped ham and parsley.

Tosca salad. Cut in fine strips about one inch long some boiled ham, tongue, cooked potatoes and buttons of artichokes. Arrange in salad bowl with some asparagus tips in the center, garnish with the chopped yolks and whites of hard-boiled eggs, separate; and serve with French dressing.

Consommé Madrilène. Slice a handful of sorrel and cook for five minutes in consommé. Add vermicelli and one tomato cut in small dices. Serve grated cheese separate.

Boiled salmon, sauce Anglaise. Cook the salmon in the same manner as for Hollandaise. For sauce Anglaise use one pint of Hollandaise sauce, mixed with two chopped hard-boiled eggs, sliced chives, chopped parsley and chervil. Serve separate.

Stanislaus salad. Remove the inside leaves of a whole head of lettuce, leaving a green bowl. Put in bottom, celery cut in long strips, with slices of grapefruit and seedless grapes cut in half, on top. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Serve with French dressing.

Ragout fin. Slice some parboiled tender sweetbreads, chickens' livers, chickens' combs, chickens' kidneys and truffles, and sauté in butter, cooking each separately. Then put all in one pan, add a half glass of good sherry, boil for one minute, add a half pint of brown gravy, simmer for a few minutes, and serve with chopped chervil on top. Chickens' combs and kidneys come in bottles from France. If you wish you may cut the tips from raw rooster combs, put in boiling water for a minute, when they can be rubbed with salt to remove the skin. Then soak in cold water to cause the blood to run out, and boil in salt water till soft.

Cream cheese with Bar le Duc. Mix some cream cheese with a little whipped cream and spread on plate in the shape of a ring. Put some red Bar le Duc jelly in center. Serve toasted crackers separate.

Fried fillet of sole. Clean and trim the fillets, season with salt and pepper, roll in flour, then in beaten eggs, then in bread crumbs, and fry in swimming hot lard for five minutes. Remove and serve on napkin with quartered lemons and fried parsley. Sauce separate.

Rémoulade sauce. Take a handful of spinach, one of watercress and one of parsley and mash fine in a mortar. Put in a cloth and press out the juice. Mix the juice with a pint and a half of mayonnaise, add four chopped gherkins and some sliced chives.

Crab meat, Monza. Wash carefully one pound of fresh mushrooms, and cut each one in four. Put in sauté pan with two ounces of butter and simmer for thirty minutes. When the mushrooms are soft add the meat of one crab cooked in cream. Before serving add one gill of dry sherry wine.

Crab meat in cream. Remove the meat from the shell of a boiled crab. In a sauce pan put a piece of butter the size of an egg, and place on stove. When warm add two spoonsful of flour and allow to become hot, then add one pint of boiling milk and one-fourth of a pint of hot cream. Stir well and boil for ten minutes. Season with salt and Cayenne pepper, then add the crab meat and serve in deep dish. Serve dry toast separate.

Chicken dumplings. (Quenelles de volaille). Take the breast of a raw fowl and trim carefully away the fat, using the white meat only. Chop very fine and pass through a fine sieve, place in a bowl on ice, season with salt and Cayenne pepper, and with a wooden spoon stir in little by little some very thick cream (not whipped), which has been kept on ice. Add the cream until you have nearly double the amount of force meat. Have two teaspoons in cold water. Take one and fill with the force meat, make a little hole in the middle and fill with goose liver purée and close up. Remove the dumpling from the first spoon with the other one and place on a buttered pan, and continue. When enough are formed cover with stock and bring to the boiling point, then set off the fire and let stand for ten minutes on the back of the range. The force meat may be used for small dumplings without the purée of goose liver; or some other filling may be used. Make them small for garnishing consommé, vol au vent, patties, financière, tortue, etc. The force meat is also used to make timbales of chicken.

Sauce Allemande. Cut up three pounds of veal bones, put in vessel with two gallons of water, bring to a boil and skim. Add one onion, a carrot, a little celery and leek, some pepper berries, two cloves, a sprig of thyme and some salt. Boil for two hours and strain. Put in sauce pan three ounces of butter, when hot add two ounces of flour and heat again. Then add a pint and a half of the broth, boil for ten minutes, season and strain. This is the foundation of many fancy sauces.

Potage Jackson. Potato soup with small pieces of macaroni added.

Poached eggs, Zingara. Poached eggs on toast. Cover with tomato sauce and small strips of tongue.

Potage Américaine. Put in a pot one onion, one leek, and a little celery, and simmer in three ounces of butter until soft. Then add two spoonsful of flour and simmer again. Now add one peeled and cut up squash, a bouquet garni and two quarts of stock, and boil till well done. Remove the bouquet garni and strain the remainder through a fine sieve. Season with salt and pepper. Before serving add one cup of cream and two cups of plain boiled rice.

Fillet of sole, Valeska. This is stuffed fillet of sole with a slice of lobster and a slice of truffle on top, and cooked in white wine. Reduce broth and add Hollandaise sauce, and stir in a spoonful of écrevisse butter to give a pink color.

Saddle of lamb, international. Put saddle of lamb in a roasting pan with one carrot, an onion, a piece of celery, a few pepper berries and some parsley in branches. Season the saddle with salt and pepper, rubbing in well. Spread some butter over the top and roast in oven, basting continually so it will not become dry. Cook for forty minutes, then take saddle from the pan, remove the fat and add to the gravy a spoonful of flour and a cup of stock or hot water, salt, cook for five minutes and strain. Before serving add one-half gill of sherry wine. For international garnishing use a bouquet each of purée of peas, mashed potatoes and purée of chestnuts.

Coffee ice cream. Add to vanilla ice cream before freezing one pint of strong coffee and one-quarter pound of sugar.