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Show I Good Things for the Family Table 1 By NELLIE MAXWELL "The strongest strand In the cable that binds a man to his God Is a wife's devotion." "The purest altar from which prayers ascend to heaven is a mother's knee." If you like the Chluese dishes tills will be one to prepare for the guests : v ho also enjoy them ; I Crab and Egg Omelet. If the JsiifeJ fresh shrimps or SsSS's crab is used, cook rX.'y5- 1 and cool. Shred I Ueiiiia' 011e CUnfu.i of crab or shrimp. Cut one cupful of lean pork into inch long narrow strips. Use scissors for the cutting. Soak one-fourth of a cupful of dried mushrooms, then cut into strips. Slice one large miUl onion and cut fine into strips. Fry the pork In two tablespoonfuls of peauut oil until tender and brown. Add onion, one cupful of bamboo shoots and mushrooms, mush-rooms, a tablcspoonful of soy sauce. Just before dinner beat six eggs, add the finely cut crab or shrimp and the vegetable mixture. Fry in a small amount of peanut oil in small bits like a pancake. Lobster Club Sandwich. Toast bread cut one-third of an inch thick, butter and keep hot. Allow two slices for each person to be served. Saute the lobster In a little butter, use either fresh or canned. Season well with salt, pepper and a teaspoonful of currant cur-rant jelly. Fry bacon until crisp. Place slices of bacon on toast and over this a layer of pieces of lobster; cover with mayonnaise, then top with a piece of crisp lettuce or chilled watercress; make another layer of bacon and lobster and on top place a slice of toast. Garnish the sandwiches sand-wiches with sliced tomato, mayonnaise mayon-naise and lemon. Cut Into triangles and serve. Pimiento Cup With Egg and Celery. Drain the small red peppers from their liquor, place In gem pans to fill. Fill with the following salad: Ch"P one cupful of celery very fine and mix with two hard cooked eggs chopped. Into this, stir one-half cupful cup-ful of mayonnaise and fill the cups. Decorate with mayonnaise and small shapes cut of green pepper. Serve very cold on crisp lettuce will) toasted biscuit and cheese. Casserole of Salmon. Take two cupfuls of cooked, shredded salmon, two tablespoonfuls Qf tapioca uncooked, un-cooked, one cupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls table-spoonfuls of butter, one-fourth tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of salt, a dash each of pepper and paprika. Mix In the order given and bake ten minutes, then cover with small baking powder biscuit and finish baking. (ci. 1 93 1 . Western Newspaper Union 1 |