388 Soup 122 Stewed 1110 à la crême 1108 with white sauce 1109-10 To dress 1107 Various uses of 441, 1107 Vinegar 389 Champagne 1832 Cup 1832 Chanticleer and his companions 947 Chantilly soup 123 Char, the 243 Charlotte apple, very simple 1420 Aux pommes, an easy method of making 1418-19 Russe 1421 Cheese 1638 Cayenne 1642 Cream 1622 Damson 1536

BEEF-STEAKS WITH FRIED POTATOES, or BIFTEK AUX POMMES-DE-TERRE (a la mode Francaise).

PUREE DE POMMES DE TERRE, or, Very Thin-mashed Potatoes.

Snipes, removed by Pommes à la Condé.

Charlotte aux Pommes. Cheesecakes.

Pommes.

Charlotte aux Pommes.

Charlotte aux Pommes.

de Pommes de Terre.

Gâteau de Vase of Compôte of Pommes.

Charlotte aux Pommes.

Charlotte aux Pommes.

Charlotte aux Pommes.

The vendors awaken to the consciousness of hunger, and Madame of the pommes frites stall, whose assistant dexterously cuts the peeled tubers into strips, is fully occupied in draining the crisp golden shreds from the boiling fat and handing them over, well sprinkled with salt and pepper, to avid customers, who devour them smoking hot, direct from their paper cornucopias.

Des pommes de terre.

This reminds us of the couplet by the author of the "Street Cries of Paris," thirteenth century: "Primes ai pommes de rouviau, Et d'Auvergne le blanc duriau.

Down you go, and fall foul of ham, beef, pommes de terre frites, jonny-cakes, and café sans lait; and generally, in despite of bad cooking and occasional lee-lurches, contrive to eat an enormous meal.

EXAMPLES Donnez-moi du pain, de la viande, Give me (some) bread, meat, des pommes de terre. potatoes.

J'ai des pommes.

We have eaten our last bif-teck aux pommes frites, and drank our last cup of coffee in the Saxe.

* POMMES FRITES.

Pommes frites, 13.

All Paris will throng to your fêtes next Sunday and Mondayall Paris, with its inexhaustible appetite for bifteck aux pommes fritesall Paris with its unquenchable thirst for absinthe and Bavarian beer!

Antoine, mon enfant, we know thee to be a fellow of incontestible veracity, and thy list is magnificent; but we will be content with a vol-au-vent of fish, a bifteck aux pommes frites, an omelette sucrée, and a bottle of thy 1840 Bordeaux with the yellow seal.

But if her virtue, in the technical sense, remained intact, the Serpent had overfed her with pommes de luxe.