1903 The Bachelor Book

iS Vegetables in Butter^Melt two tablespoons of butter in the blazer. Put in vegetables which have been previously boiled,drained,and cut. Season to taste,and serye as soon as they are hot. "Pain wastes the body j pleasures the understanding." Seigel's preserves both. Welsh Rarebit—Three cups of cheese, ale, red pepper, one tablespoon of butter, one saltspoon of mustard, one saltspoon of salt, one saltspoon of soda or bicarbonate of potash. Put the butter in the blazer over boiling water. Break the cheese in small pieces and stir it in the melted butter. Season it with salt, pepper, and dry mustard, and stir in the soda or potash. As the cheese begins to soften, slowly add the ale, two or three tablespoons, stirring constantly. In a few moments it will be a smooth thick cream. Stop cooking at once before it has time to curdle. If the cooking stops too soon it will be stringy. Serve on toast or crackers. A soft, rich cheese should be used. The American cream cheese is very good. The Welsh Rarebit calls for ale. Cream may be substituted for the ale, to make a temperance rarebit. "Wedlock,as old men note,hath likened been Unto a public crowd or common rout,

Where those that arc without would fain get in. And those that are within would fain get out."

Whitebait.—Wash the fish very carefully,"^ and dry them on a soft cloth. Have a table spoon of butter "smoking hot" in the blazer. Dip each little fish in flour and put it at once