The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-30

holding bonbons connected by smllax or
trauescantia, no ether dishes noed be on
the table. ] Hnm q la Clandeboye lord
Dufferins Castle) and salad melee. 2.
Hunters punch and cinnamon cake. 8. A
Spanish fruit salad and rolled bread and
butter. 4. mystery cake and spiced LEM
onade. Then. lor souvenirs. give each one
an apple stuffed with clovesa very old
custom. Creepy stories should be told
every ten minutes, and II you feel up to 1t
you can materiaMze a capable ghost
8 l.. Probably the method for cooking this
ham WIS brought by the distinguished dip
lomat from his soiourn In Norway. Clean
well an extra good ham, put 1t in plenty of
boiling water and let 1t remain till 1t boils
fast, and then continue this for half an
hour. Cover Ut tightly closing the seal
with dough. and lit tho boiling pot on
rile of spread newspapers and wrap them
around It. pinning closely and pillng on
plenty to secure the heat. Finally. wrap
the mountain you have made with piece
OF soft carpet or a similar convenient thing,
and let II stand twenty-four hours. When
you take 1t out the ham will be as tender
as poetry. The salad melee has been given.
Take carrots, green beams, peas and lettuce,
all but the last separately cooked and sea
| soned; mix and mask with n green lemon
ade---a mayonaise colored by spdnach--or
simply mayonaise.
2. Hunters puuch-Male In a very large
bowl a hot lemonade and add ltttle
whisky or rum for flavor. It should be
strong of lemon and mild with spirits. Add
a dozen baked apples cut In halves and a
slice of buttered toast, sugared for each
person; put In just before serving The
bakers cinnamon cake cut in fingers
| Will do.
| 3. Spanish Fruit Salad--peel and cut
| some large white apples In very thin slices
and lay them In a bath above the level
of rim and lemonade; let them stand an
hour; drain; peel and cut very thin an
equal quantity Of pears, and IL oranges are
scarce substitute an equal quantity of
peaches cut in thin strips. Put these In
layers in a glass salad bowl, sprlnlSllng
sugar between each. Put in quart OF cold
water, four whole lemons cut In thin
slices and seeded: add a cup OF loaf sugar
and cook till the rind Is tender, then add
the rum liquor strained and twenty more
Jumps of sugar. each dipped In rose water.
Reduce to twp-thirds and add half cup OF
preserved cherries cut In half and whan
almost cool pour on the fruit: lot it 81 10
| till cool, then chill and frame tho q =.
with wreath Of roses and leaves. or gra ~ ~
and grape leaves or rose gcranium leal NJ
Cut the bread very thin. butter, roll So
pack in damp napkin, and keep In a d st
place till needed. bN,
I 4 Your mystery cake"---which is {Tr
pie. 80 It's Irish. tools made with n,toI
sery paste, upon which put a LAYER lor
cooked apples. soft pears cut thin, ralsFo
and apricots. and fill to the level wibI
grape Juice sweetened with sugar; then abe
all the sliced peach 1t will take in baLIr
and when cold take Off the crusts skilfulk
aud nut In china babies or little brlc- -br; fo
LOT clay that can not injure the flayokH
Scatter colored almond bonbons at the toPC
cover again, and whsn you cut 1t you cic
do so as 10 know to whom you are giviJ
any special portion with particular snel4,R
dients They thought this very brnlia,p
In great grandmother days aud In the Flight
teenth century and It sometimes took Ia EN
men to carry a fcstal pie II WAS so ~
that the contents would make a column cal n
alogue. Prepare your spices for the tbi
lemonade In little cotton bag with simp&@a
syrup and boil an hour to extract no
strength, then add three dashes OF caJ
enne to q quart OF lemonade. n