Cold fish

Butter

Flour

Milk

Pepper

Salt

Bread crumbs

Saucepan Fork Spoons Baking dish

Take some cold fish, say enough to make 1 pint, and pick it to pieces with a silver fork. Be sure to take out every bone.

Make a cream sauce, as you have learned to do, with 1 tablespoonful of flour, 1 tablespoonful of butter and 1 cup of milk. Use a saucepan or double boiler and be careful not to let it burn.

Add 1 teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper.

Put your fish into the saucepan with the sauce, mix it all up well, and take from the stove.

Take a baking dish and butter the sides and bottom carefully.

Turn the fish into the baking dish.

Have ready about 1/2 a cup of stale bread crumbs, add to them a pinch of salt and a smaller pinch of pepper, mix them all up, and sprinkle over the fish.

Drop some very small bits of butter on the top and put the dish in a pretty hot oven to brown. This should take about fifteen minutes, but it might take less or more according to the heat of the oven.

Take the fish out when the top is brown, and serve right away.

This can be baked in little dishes or in large shells.