BACKBONE PIE -- Take the small end of the backbone, cut in pieces three or four inches long; wash well and boil in water until done. Have ready a nice pastry; line a baking dish with some of the pastry; lay the bones into this dish with some of the water in which they were boiled. Season to taste with salt and pepper, adding butter and a few pieces of pastry dropped here and there in the pie. Cover the top of the dish with pastry; place in stove; bake nice and brown. This is a great Southern dish, and delicious when nicely prepared. -- Mrs. Theo Hamlin
EGG NEST ON TOAST -- Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, spread on slices of nicely browned toast, that is well buttered. Leave a small place in the center of the slice that has no egg on it, and carefully put the yolk in it; sprinkle with pepper and salt, and put in the stove until the whites of eggs are a little brown. Send to table hot. A nice breakfast dish. -- Mrs. Volney James
CELERY SOUP -- One head of celery, one pint of water, one pint of milk, one tablespoon of chopped onion, one tablespoon of butter, one tablespoon of flour, one-half teaspoon of salt, and one saltspoon of white pepper. Wash ans scrape celery, cut into one-half-inch pieces, put it into one pint of boiling salt water, and cook till solft; mash in the water in which it was boiled. Cook onion in milk for ten minutes, in granite iron vessel, then add to the celery, rub all through a sieve and put on to boil again. Cook butter and flour together and gradually add the soup. Add salt and pepper. Boil five minutes and serve at once. -- Mrs. James S. Pilcher.