Required : Four ounces of flour. Half a pint of cold water. One ounce of butter. Two eggs.

Three ounces of grated cheese (Parmesan is best). A little salt, pepper, and cayenne. (Sufficient for six.)

Put the flour into the oven to dry and then sieve it. Put the water and butter into a pan, and, when boiling, add the flour. Stir the mixture well, until it will leave the side of the pan quite easily.

Take it from the fire and allow it to cool a little. Then add the eggs, one by one, with salt, pepper, and cayenne to taste, and lastly the grated cheese, Spread it out on a plate to cool.

Have ready some frying fat, and when a very faint smoke rises from it, take a teaspoonful of the mixture, drop it into the fat, and fry it a golden brown.

Serve the aigrettes very hot, with some grated Parmesan cheese sprinkled over them. Cost, 6d.