Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-12-05
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Little Suppers.
Simple, well-cooked and well-served
refreshments are preferable ut evening
entertainments to ill-prepared and SLOW
emily served elaborate menus. The fol-
lowing suggestions are offered for the
hostess who is on the lookout for aids:
MENUS.
1. Cold sliced tongue; graham bread;
lobster salad; lettuce sandwiches; nut
waters; frozen custard; coffee.
2. For the chafing-dish: creamed
oysters on toasted crackers; orange, date
and fig salad; cocoanut loaf cake; coffee.
8. Clam bouillon; waters; chicken
salad in rolls; Neapolitan Ice cream;
drop cakes; hot egg cider.
4. Individual chicken pies; surprise
rolls; sour pickles; currant-jelly sand
witches; fruit punch.
5. Squads; buttered Parker House
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cake; popcorn balls; coffee.
JUMBLEs.
Beat to a cream one cupful butter and
two cupfuls sugar; then add three eggs,
yolks and whites beaten separately; then
one teaspoonful vanilla and one-fourth
teaspoonful lemon extract; add enough
flour to make paste to roll very thin !;
cut into circles; brush with egg; sprinkle
with chopped nuts and bake light
brown in quick oven.
CLAN BoUILLION.
Scrub twenty-four CLAIMS very clean,
cover with water and boil until clam
shells open; remove the clans; strain
liquor free from sediment; reduce to
right strength with hot water; add but
ter and pepper; place spoonful whipped
cream on top of each cup. Teacups may
be used instead of bouillon-cups.
CHICKEN-sALAD ROLLS.
Remove part of inside of Vienna rolls,
fill with chicken salad.
CHICKEN PIES.
Cut cooked chicken into small
pieces and re-heat in a milk fricassee
sauce, highly seasoned with butter,
pepper, salt and parsley; place in indi.
vidual dishes; cover with one-fourth
inch thick baking powder biscuit crust
and bake until delicate brown. Serve
in small dishes.
SURPRISE ROLL.
Roll cooked chicken, frankfurters or
sausages in biscuit crust and bake.
Serve either hot or cold as preferred.
CURRANT JELLY SANDWICHES.
Spread long and narrow saltines with
thick currant jelly and place together.
FRUIT PUNCH.
One quart each of canned pineapple
red raspberry, sour cherry juice, added
to a strong Lemonade; add one pint
strong black tea and crushed ice; wher
serving fill glasses one.fourth with ths
best brand of ginger ale.
HOT EGG CIDER.
Beat one egg for each guest with ont
tablespoonful sugar; pour hot sweet
cider over, beating constantly; serve II
tall glasses with straws.
SQUADS.
Clean squads; wipe with damp cloth
steam until tender; dredge with salt ant
pepper, putting on hot plate when ready
to serve. Do not disjoint.
sARDINE SANDWICHES.
Spread thinly cut bread and lay {
picked-up sardine upon each slice
sprinkle lemon-juice over just befor'
serving.
STUFFED EGGS.
Boil eggs for twenty-five minutes; re-
move shells; cut in two; take out yolk
and season with pepper, salt, butter ant
a little minced parsley; refill the whit
cavity and press the two halves together
POP CORN BALLS.
Pop corn and only take the kernel
which are all popped out; make syrul
of the following: One cupful granulate'
sugar, two cupfuls molasses, butter tn
size of walnut, tablespoonful vinegar
boil without stirring until 1t spins
thread and then pour over the corn
forming into balls before it cOols; lay OF
buttered dish.
PARKER HOUSE ROLLS.
One compressed yeast cake, one tea
spoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar
1.-TWO tablespoonfuls melted butter, tw'
Icupfuls milk; scald the milk, add tn
Isugar and salt and when cold add tn
yeast cake; add two cupfuls of flour an,
the melted butter and set where it viii
keep warm; when full of bubbles adj
1.-TWO cupfuls of flour and knead thorough
lily; cut into small cake-shaped rolls, but
ter and fold over; bake in quick oven.
NUT SANDWICHES.
Grated almonds or walnuts with othe
nuts can be made into delicious sand
witches. Use tiny pinch of salt o
celery salt, or little chopped pickle TO
|savories. For sweet sandwiches it viii
be found that ground almonds blend wei
with grated chocolate, or with sugar an
la little lemon-juice. Chopped date
Icombine we'll with walnuts and cocoa
nut, and raisins are good with any kim
Iof nut.-New Idea.
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