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LOBSTER NEWBURG.

A cup and a half of boiled lobster meat, cut into half inch cubes, the yelks of two eggs, a cup of cream, a half cup of sherry wine, a tablespoonful of butter and salt and paprika to taste. Melt butter in skillet, add the lobster meat, and salt and paprika, covering all and allowing it to cook gently for five or ten minutes. Add the wine and let simmer three or four minutes longer. In the meantime beat the eggs and cream together until light, and add this the last thing to the lobster meat, carefully mixing until it becomes thickened, then serve immediately, as it will not keep without curdling. It should be served on hot toast.

ROYAL ESCALOP.

Two cups of finely chopped, lean, boiled ham; six hard boiled eggs minced fine; one cup of cream sauce; one-half cup of fine bread crumbs, rolled in a tablespoonful of melted butter highly seasoned with red and black pepper, dry mustard and salt. Butter an earthen baking dish. Place in the bottom a layer of one-third of the ham, then one-third of the egg, then a layer of the cream sauce. Continue to place layers of the ingredients in the dish in the Here's to the fools who make feasts and to the wise men who eat them! same order, completing by spreading the bread crumbs on top of all. Place the dish in a hot oven long enough to heat through and brown the top.

The cream sauce should be made by melting two rounding tablespoons of butter, adding a level tablespoonful of flour. Rub the flour into the melted butter to a smooth paste. Thin with a coffee-cup full of cold milk. Stir well and boil two minutes. Add pepper and salt to taste.

OYSTERS AND CELERY.

Place in a chafing-dish two rounded tablespoons of butter. When it boils add one pint of fresh bulk oysters. Pepper and salt to taste, using paprika if liked. Cook until edges of oysters begin to curl.

Have ready a full pint of nice celery, cut across the stalk into thin slices. As soon as the oysters are done, as described above, stir in the celery and cook all until thoroughly hot. When almost done thicken the mixture with one even tablespoonful of flour, which has been rubbed smooth in cream. Serve on dry toast.

It is not intended to cook the celery, merely heat it thoroughly.

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Drink to the kisser, the kissee, the kisses!

Feed the Kitty CHICKEN HASH WITH MUSHROOMS.

Fry in the blazer of a chafing-dish with a piece of butter the size of an egg three sliced fresh mushrooms. Moisten a heaping teaspoonful of flour with one gill of chicken stock and one-half gill of cream; add to the mushrooms and let all come to a boil. Then add the white meat of a boiled chicken cut into small dice, and free from skin and gristle, letting all simmer together for a few minutes. Beat slightly the yelk of one egg with two tablespoons of cream. Stir this into the chicken; add two tablespoons of dry sherry; stir well; season to taste with salt, paprika and pepper; serve immediately.

WELCH RAREBIT.

Mix together in a chafing-dish one wine-glass of ale, one teaspoonful Worcestershire sauce and one teaspoonful of dry English mustard. Add one-half pound of American cheese, cut fine. Add salt, black and cayenne pepper to taste. Place over the flame and as soon as the cheese begins to melt stir well with a spoon until smooth. Let the mixture come to a boil, stirring all the time. Pour over toast, dry or buttered, as preferred.

Some cooks prefer to add, just before serving, the yelk of an egg.

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DRINKS "CHATHAM ARTILLERY PUNCH."

Savannah, Ga.

This historic beverage was born in the year 1786, a child of the organization whose name it bears. Its vigor in those days was much greater than at present, experience having taught the rising generation to modify the receipt of their forefathers to conform to the weaker constitutions of their progeny. It has become historic in that Presidents, Governors, the Judiciary, and last but not least, the Admiral of Manilla's fame, have partaken of this seductive mixture.