Heat soup, add bread crumbs, cheese, and mustard; stir until cheese melts, and serve on toast or crackers.

240.—WELSH RAREBIT

1 tablespoon butter¼ teaspoon paprika
1 tablespoon flour¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup hot milk1/8 teaspoon soda
½ pound cheese cut fineDash of cayenne
½ teaspoon mustard1 beaten egg

Melt butter, add flour, and when well mixed add milk, and stir until smooth; add cheese and seasonings, and cook until cheese is melted; add egg, cook two or three minutes, and serve on hot toast or crisp pilot crackers. The egg may be omitted.

241.—SALTED ALMONDS

1 cup almonds (shelled)1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter

Cover almonds with boiling water and let stand on back of range for ten minutes; slip off the skins, and dry for several hours, or over night; melt butter, add almonds and salt, and mix well; spread in a dripping pan, and bake in a slow oven fifteen or twenty minutes, stirring occasionally. When prepared in this way nuts will keep crisp.

242.—PEANUT BUTTER

2 quarts lightly roasted peanutsCream or melted butter
1 teaspoon salt

Remove shells and skins of peanuts, and put through the food chopper twice, using first a coarse cutter, and then the finest cutter; add salt, and enough cream or melted butter to make a smooth paste.