Required: One large box of sardines. Pepper or cayenne. Slices of slightly buttered toast. A little chopped parsley.

Pour the oil from the box of sardines into the frying-pan; if more is needed, add some good salad oil.

When it is quite hot, put in the sardines and fry them quickly till a pale brown. Drain and arrange them on the hot toast, and sprinkle them well with pepper or cayenne and a little chopped parsley.

If liked, decorate them with a little hardboiled yolk of egg which has been rubbed through a sieve. Cost, Is. 2d.

Prawn Croquettes. A dainty method of serving prawns