Smoked tongues must be soaked over-night in cold water. Salt tongues do not require this. Tongues must be placed in boiling water and simmered till tender, then skinned and replaced in the liquor to get hot again. Toad-in-the-Hole. Time—¾ hour. ½ lb. scraps of cooked or uncooked meat, 3 gills water, ½ lb. flour, salt, 2 eggs. Grease a pie-dish or baking-tin; lay the pieces of meat in it; make a batter by stirring the water gradually into the flour and salt, beat in the eggs one at a time, then beat all together, pressing out any lumps against the sides of the basin, let it stand two hours if possible, then pour it over the meat and bake in a quick oven about ½ hour. Stewed Knuckle of Veal. Time—2¼ hours. 4 lbs. knuckle of veal, ¼ lb. rice, 1 onion, 1 teaspoonful salt, ¼ teaspoonful pepper, 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley, 3 pints water, 1 oz. flour, juice of 1 lemon. Simmer the veal for 2 hours in the salt and water. After it has simmered 1 hour add the onion, peeled and cut up, and the rice well washed. Simmer again for 1 hour, add the flour mixed to a cream with the lemon-juice, then add the chopped parsley, cook for 10 minutes, and serve the meat in the middle of the rice and gravy. Breast of Veal or Mutton Stuffed. Time—2 hours. Cut breast in half and stuff; or bone, stuff and roll round. Bake for 1½ hour, basting well. _Forcemeat_: 2 oz. smoked beef, ¼ lb. suet, rind of ½ lemon, 1 teaspoonful chopped herbs, and parsley, salt, cayenne and pounded mace to taste, 4 oz. bread-crumbs, and 1 egg. Shred the smoked beef, chop the suet, lemon-rind, and herbs, mincing all very finely. Add seasoning to taste, and mix well with the bread-crumbs before wetting with the egg. Work all together and use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIMPLE WAYS OF USING COLD COOKED MEAT. Curry. Time—1¼ hour. 1 lb. pieces of cold cooked meat, 2 oz. clarified dripping, 1 apple, 1 onion, 1 dessertspoonful curry powder, 1 dessertspoonful flour; salt and pepper to taste; ½ pint cold water. Peel and cut up the onion and apple, and cut the meat into neat slices; fry the vegetables brown in the dripping, add the curry powder, flour, salt and pepper, and stir the water into it gradually. Let it boil, and then simmer for ½ hour with the lid off. Add the meat, heat it through, but do not let it boil. Serve in a ring of boiled rice (see page 35). Hash. Time—2 hours. 1 lb. cold cooked meat and bones, 2 onions, 1 carrot, a small bunch of herbs, ½ oz. dripping, 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 dessertspoonful ketchup, 1 saltspoonful salt, ½ saltspoonful pepper.