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Breakfast Dal

Mrs. Keer.

Sift, pick and wash a quarter pound Dal.

Chop fine a small onion* and fry it in a piece of butter the size of a nut; add the washed Dal, three-quarters pint water, and a level teaspoonful salt. Let all boil up quickly, then set back to boil gently for half an hour longer, Stir occasionally.

Send to table in a vegetable dish, and at the same time, in a similar dish, serve plain boiled rice light and dry, the grains soft yet each one separate.

Quarter pound Dal and quarter pound Rice are enough for two persons. Total cost 4½ cents.

BENGAL SOUP (WITHOUT MEAT.) Mrs. Keer.

Proceed as for "Breakfast Dal," doubling the amount of onion, salt and water and adding pepper. Time to cook-one hour. *To persons objecting to the flavor of onion in a breakfast dish it is necessary to say that they need not fear to follow the recipe, as the modicum of well-cooked onion prescribed is in reality hardly appreciable to smell or taste, the dal apparently absorbing and counteracting its flavor.