FOOD

Ingredients: 1/2 pound macaroni 1/2 cup cream 1 1/2 table-spoonfuls butter Pepper, salt and parsley 1 egg, beaten well 1 table-spoonful flour 4 table-spoonfuls grated cheese a little crumbed bread

Preparation: 1. Break the macaroni into inch lengths; boil in water slightly salted; drain perfectly dry in a cullender. 2. Take out two table-spoonfuls of cream, and put the rest into a farina-kettle or saucepan, set within another of boiling water. When it is scalding hot, salt to taste; add half a table-spoonful of butter, then the macaroni, and heat together slowly. They should not boil. 3. Meanwhile put the reserved cream into a small saucepan. Heat, stir in the table-spoonful of butter, pepper and parsley; the flour, wet with cold milk, the grated cheese, and when this is dissolved, the beaten egg. 4. Pour the macaroni into a neat baking-dish, cover with the cheese mixture. Strew the top with very fine bread-crumbs, and brown quickly on the upper grating of a hot oven.