Melt butter; add pepper and onion, cook five minutes; add flour; when blended, add stock and tomato; when mixture boils, add remaining ingredients; when meat is heated through, serve on a hot platter and garnish with [Boiled Rice].

Chicken Tamales

Chop the chicken meat. Chop peppers and onion and soak in vinegar one hour. Drain, add remaining ingredients. Shape like croquettes. Roll in corn meal and wrap in corn husks. Tie the ends to keep the mixture in. Steam three hours. Dry in oven ten minutes.

Stuffed Squash

Cut a summer squash in halves. Scoop out pulp, strain in cheese cloth. To the pulp add an equal amount of cracker crumbs and twice as much chopped ham or veal or shrimps. For four cups of the above mixture, add the following: Melt two tablespoons butter, add two tablespoons finely chopped pepper, one tomato cut in pieces, and one beaten egg. Add the squash mixture, and cook ten minutes. Fill squash shells and bake ten minutes.

Sweet Potato Pone