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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Cream of Shrimps (As made in Nice Boil shell)

(As made in Nice.) Boil, shell, clean, and chop fifty shrimps, fry them in 2 ounces of butter, add 1 slice of stale bread, 3 anchovies, 4 ounces of boiled rice, 1 sliced onion, salt, pepper, and 2 quarts of white stock. Cook this 2 hours. Press through a sieve a tablespoonful of sherry or a glass of white wine, and serve hot.

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