Mushrooms sur le plat.—For this dish you need two soup plates that will stand the fire. Butter one of these well, and lay some small mushrooms in this, putting a pat of maître d’hôtel butter (the size of a good hazel nut) on each, with a very few drops of water. Lay a strip of any common paste round the edge of this plate, reverse the other plate over it, pressing it well down into the paste to keep in all the steam, and bake from twenty to twenty-five minutes. When ready remove the top plate and the paste, wipe the rim of the under plate, and serve the mushrooms at once and very hot. If preferred they can, when ready, be lifted on to rounds of hot buttered toast on which you have poured the sauce in the dish.