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Potatoes and Cheese (Wash some raw potatoes peel)

Wash some raw potatoes, peel them, cut them into very thin round slices. Take a dish which will stand the oven, and be nice enough to go on the table, and put in it a layer of the slices sprinkled with pepper, salt, a little flour, and plenty of grated Gruyere. Continue in this way, finishing with a layer of cheese, and a little flour. Put the dish in the oven, which must not be a very hot one, and cook gently. For a medium pie dish you will find that half an hour will be sufficient to cook the potatoes.

York Ham, Sweetbreads, Madeira Sauce Heat the ham in a double saucepan (bain marie). Boil the sweetbreads, blanch them and let them fry in some butter. Take flour and butter and melt them to a thick sauce, adding a tumbler of water and Liebig which will turn your sauce brown. Fry half a pound of mushrooms in butter and when brown, add them and the liquor to your sauce with a good glass of madeira or sherry. Place your ham in the middle of the dish, surround it with the sweetbreads, and pour over all the Madeira sauce.