| 6 | eggs, beaten a little without separating. |
| 1 | teaspoonful of salt. |
If, in cooking the vegetables, they get dry, put in a little more butter and tomato.
Miss Betty said if Mildred would stir this often she did not need to use the hot-water pan of the chafing-dish. "It takes so much longer to cook with it that I never use it if I can help it," she explained. "And now for the potatoes, Brownie."
SCALLOPED POTATOES
Wash and peel six large potatoes, and slice them thin. Butter a baking dish and put in a layer; sprinkle with salt and just a little pepper and dot with very little bits of butter. When the dish is full pour over it a cupful of milk and sift fine crumbs over the top, and add some more bits of butter. Bake for three quarters of an hour.
Like the oysters this dish was made ready in the afternoon, all but putting on the milk and crumbs.
"You don't need a receipt for cocoa, do you?" Miss Betty stopped to ask.
"No, indeed; we can make that with our eyes shut," laughed Mildred.
"Then we will go on to the sandwiches. Here are two kinds which are very good with oysters, and perhaps they may possibly give you ghost-dreams; I hope they will!"