90 THE BLUE BIRD CooK Book

BAKED EGGS
6 eggs 2 tablespoons butter
1 cup macaroni 1 tablespoon flour
1 pint canned tomatoes Salt and pepper

Break macaroni in inch lengths to the amount of 1 cupful. Boil 20 minutes,
drain in colander and let cold tap run on it for a few minutes. Melt butter and flour,
blend well, then add tomatoes and bring to boil, stirring well. Add macaroni to
tomatoes, and pour all in a casserole. Drop in 6 eggs, and bake in hot oven (400
degrees) until the whites are set.

(DEM.) CHILI CON CARNI

1 tin tomatoes 1 large onion

1 large tin red kidney beans 3 kernels garlic

2 Ibs. round steak 1 teaspoon salt

Y% Ib. suet 1 pint water

Y% Ib. bacon or salt pork 2 tablespoons chili powder

Put tomatoes and beans in kettle, add steak (which must first be put through |

grinder and then well braised), and suet. Fry onion and garlic to a golden brown; also
fry bacon or pork to a golden brown. Put the whole together with the addition of salt
and chili powder, and stew slowly for 1 hour. Serve hot with either soda biscuits or
brown bread.

CRAB MEAT WITH NOODLES

Two cans of crab meat or meat of two fresh crabs. Lightly wash the canned crab
meat and set where cool for half hour. Butter casserole; put in crab meat alternately
with noodles which have been previously boiled in salt water for 15 minutes. Cover
this with thick white sauce. Over the top sprinkle bread crumbs, plenty of bits of
butter, salt, pepper and paprika. Bake in quick oven (400 degrees) for about 20
minutes.

If you like au gratin, add 34 cup grated cheese to the above, reserving some to
sprinkle over the top with the bread crumbs.

NOODLE WREATH

Two packages noodles, boiled and cooled. Four eggs, 1 cup cream, butter, salt
and pepper. Bake 1 hour in ring mould pan. Turn on platter. Serve with creamed
chicken and put peas in centre of the noodle wreath.

A LUNCHEON DISH

2 cups of grated cheese (or put 1 cup milk
through food chopper) Y2 teaspoon salt
Y teaspoon mustard 6 squares buttered toast
1 dash cayenne 6 poached eggs

Put the milk on to heat in a double boiler, add to it the cheese, and stir con-
stantly until the cheese is melted; add mustard, salt and cayenne. Have ready the
toast, pour enough of the cheese over each piece to cover it, put a poached egg care-
fully on the top of each piece, dust lightly with pepper and salt, and serve immediately.

MACARONI
Yea box macaroni, cooked 1 onion
and drained 3 cloves garlic
1 can tomatoes Cheese

1 Ib. round steab (minced)
Fry the onion and garlic until brown. Place in casserole a layer of macaroni,
then tomatoes, onion and garlic, meat and layer of grated cheese. Pour remainder of
tomatoes over the top, and bake in moderate oven 350 degrees for 45 minutes.