FEBRUARY 1.−−Oriental Canapes. Take some lobster or crab−meat and pound in a mortar. Mix with 1 tablespoonful of butter; season with salt and pepper, a pinch each of mustard, cayenne, nutmeg and curry−powder and moisten withlemon−juice. Cut small rounds of toasted bread; scoop out some of the centre; fill with the mixture and cover with a

A Foreign Dish for every day in the year JANUARY 1.−−Austrian Goulasch.Boil 2 calves' heads in salted water until tender; then cut the meat from the bone. Fry 1 dozen small peeledonions and 3 potatoes, cut into dice pieces; stir in 1 tablespoonful of flour and the sauce in which the meat was cooked. Let boil up, add the sliced meat, 1 teaspoonf

1.−−Italian Stuffed Tomatoes. Cut tomatoes in halves; take out some of the pulp. Fry 1 large onion in butter, add the tomato pulp, a piece of beef−marrow, 2 sprigs of chopped parsley, salt and pepper. Remove from the fire; add a beaten egg and mix with bread−crumbs and a pinch of nutmeg. Then fill the tomatoes, sprinkle with buttered bread

1.−−Chicken Chop Suey (CHINESE). Cut all the meat of a chicken into thin strips; season with black pepper, and cayenne, and fry in hot lard. Add some ham, onion, celery, green bean sprouts and mushrooms cut fine. Moisten with 1/2 cup of stock. Add 1/4 cup of Chinese sauce; cover and let simmer until tender. Thicken the sauce with flour; add 2 t

1.−−Turkish Purée. Boil 1 cup of lentils with 1 bay−leaf, 2 sprigs of parsley, a pinch of salt and pepper to taste; add some mace and cook until tender. Then fry 1 chopped onion in 2 tablespoonfuls of olive−oil; add the lentils and 1 cup of cooked rice and 1 tablespoonful of butter. Stir well together and let get very hot. Put on a platte

1.−−Italian Tongue. Boil a beef tongue until tender; skin and slice thin. Heat 2 tablespoonfuls of butter. Add 1 chopped onion and 2 cloves of garlic minced fine. Stir in 1 tablespoonful of flour until brown; add a little water, 1 cup of tomato−sauce, 1/2 cup chopped mushrooms, lemon−juice, salt and pepper to taste. Let boil. Add the sliced