With a Saucepan Over the Sea

Adelaide Keen went abroad with a notebook and came home with the recipes — cocka leekie from Scotland, petite marmite from Paris, the maids of honor of Richmond — each dish tagged with the country that gave it.

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Batons De Jakob

(Marseilles.) Melt 1/2 cup of butter in 1 cup of hot water, and stir till it boils; add 1 cup of flour, and stir till smooth. Take off, add 3 unbeaten eggs, one by one, and stir well. Pour on a pan in cakes, 1 inch wide and 4 long; bake 25 minutes in moderate oven. When cold, open them with a knife, fill with a soft custard flavored with vanilla, and ice with coffee.

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