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16 Baked Halibut Put in baking pan 3 thin slices of fat salt pork about two inches square, 3 slices of onion and a bit of bayleaf. On top of these lay your halibut, spread over it a tablespoon of butter and flour creamed together, cover with buttered cracker crumbs, small strips of salt pork and bake twenty to thirty minutes. Cooked this way it is delicious. Garnish with lemon and parsley. Mrs. Bradway.

Flounders Clean fish and let stand in cold water one hour. Drain, salt and let stand one hour. Add 1½ tablespoons vinegar in water to cover fish. Boil about three minutes over a slow fire. Serve with a gravy made of butter, flour, chopped parsley and liquid from fish. Mrs. Betty Sorenson.

Salmon Puff One large can salmon, 2 eggs, 1 cup bread crumbs, 2 cups milk (salt and pepper), 1 onion and a little butter. Bake half hour. Mix salmon, bread crumbs, onion and seasoning and milk together. Beat eggs until light and add to above ingredients. Mrs. Joseph Balassa.

Halibut Steak Two halibut steaks, ½ pint oysters, a few thin slices salt pork, 1 cup cracker crumbs, ⅓ cup melted butter, salt, paprika. Put slices of pork in a pan, then one steak seasoned and covered by oysters which have been rolled in butter ed_ cracker crumbs, then put on the other steak, with slices of pork on top. Bake thirty-five minutes in hot oven, basting every ten minutes. Delicious. Mrs. Rae Franknecht.