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 left moistened for several hours. Add powdered chillies and salt, mix thoroughly, form cakes, and fry in ghee or oil. Kulia or curry can be prepared with these.

Make a paste of the flesh portions of a few big-sized shrimps with the kernel of a half-ripe cocoa-nut. Add some bread crumbs, minced onions, a little powdered turmeric, red chillies, salt and the contents of a fresh egg, and beat thoroughly. Form cakes and fry. These are very tasteful.

Beat the roes of fishes with some besam, a little powdered turmeric, pepper or chillies, and salt. A little onion-juice or minced onion may be added. Form small balls or flat cakes and fry them in oil.

Boil pieces of fish and remove the bones. Mix boiled and pasted potato about a third of the quantity of fish, proper quantities of powdered pepper, chillies and salt with the boiled fishes. Form cakes, dip into beaten egg-contents, roll on bread crumbs and fry in ghee.

Remove the bones from pieces of boiled fish and mix with a third of its quantity of boiled and minced potatoes, adequate quantities of salt, powdered almonds, pepper,