SCALLOPED SARDINES
One can of sardines, one cupful of sauce (as below), five or six soda crackers. Pick the fish over, removing back-bone and tail, and flake with a fork. Place a layer of the sardines in an agate baking dish, cover with the sauce, then a layer of the cracker crumbs, another layer of sardines, and so on until the fish is all used. Cover the top layer with cracker crumbs and bake in a hot oven until brown. Prepare the fish sauce as follows:
SAUCE—Two tablespoonfuls each of Gold Medal Flour, butter, cup hot milk, salt and pepper to taste. Melt the butter in sauce-pan until it bubbles, then add the flour, salt and pepper until smooth, and pour the hot milk in gradually, stirring each time. Cook until it thickens. This is a good sauce to serve with any fish.
LOBSTER NEWBURG
Season one pint diced lobster with half teaspoon salt, dash cayenne, pinch nutmeg. Put in sauce-pan with two tablespoons butter; heat slowly. Add two tablespoons sherry; cook six minutes; add one-half cup cream beaten with yolks two eggs, stir till thickened. Take quickly from fire.
STEWED MUSSELS
Take about five dozen good-sized mussels, clean and then boil them until shells open. Put very little water on when boiling them, for when they are heated they let out plenty of juice themselves. When they are cooked take from shell and pick over. Put in a saucepan a piece of butter and some onions; fry until brown and add the mussels, a can of tomatoes and two cupfuls of the juice and stew all together for about fifteen minutes. Salt and pepper to taste, and lastly thicken the gravy with some Gold Medal Flour dissolved in cold water.