Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19
Sunday Night Suppers.


Every bright-minded human being enjoys
| a pickup lunch. and it is this love of in
formality, stronger than ever in the sum-
mer time, that makes the Sunday night tea
| such joyous meal 1t is the smart thing
nowadays to get your own Sunday night
supper In your own apartments No more
going out to restaurants or keeping the
cook to make a formal dnner-just a happy.
| informal gathering of family and friends.
with everything prepared by amateur
I chefs.
The only thing necessary for the hostess
to do Is to see that her icebox contains a
| reasonable amount of seasonable fruit and
vegetables. some eggs and relshes. The
menu will be made up after the party in
spects the refrigerator. and In about fifteen
minutes from the time they start a meal
| that would not only tempt the dying An
chorite. but would bring him back to life
again. may be spread on the table. No
one is likely to want anything hot, but IL
there are any such let them warm in the
oven OF the gas stove or in the chatting dish
package of Saratoga chips which will
give the required warmth without heavi-
ness.
| Corn Salad with Mayonnaise-Cut cold
boiled corn from the cob carefully remov-
ing any shreds of silk that have fingered
between kernels. Line a salad bowl with
small white leaves from the heart of a let
luce mead and then heap the corn in the
center. Pour the mayonnase over the
whole. being sure to have plenty of IL.
The toothsomeness of corn a salad in
gredient Is Just becoming known. 1t is
much better eaten alone with a mayonnaise
| than mixed with other vegeta bles
Recipe for Mayonnaise.-Put a pinch of
| salt and dash of pepper into bowl after
! rubbing the bottom and sides of the bowl
with split Glove of garlic: add the yolks
OF two eggs, half pint Of olive oil and a
| tablespoonful Of vinegar. Take an egg
beater and stir them all up together briskly
Tor about ten minutes. Then pour the mix
ture over the salad Lemon juice may be
used instead of vinegar, IL preferred and
half cup of whipped cream may be added,
| but the combination OF cream and vinegar
Is not always easily digested. Some per-
sons like to make mayonnaise by adding
the oil to the eggs drop by drop but this
| is a tedious and laborious process, and the
sauce Is just as good when made I'm the
speedy way described.
Mixed Vegetable Salad With French
Dressing-First rub the salad bowl with a
split Glove OF garlic: then pour in four
tablespoons OF olive oil TO one of Tarragon
vinegar and stir thoroughly with silver
fork. Next put in any vegetables you have
In the house: you cannot have too many,
but two will do. Sliced cucumbers toma-
toes, onions, asparagus tips, parsley, pep
pergrass-all these are good, and will blend
tremendously with the dressing. When you
| mix the vegetables. sprinkle with pepper
and salt and celery salt. Edge the dish
with lettuce leaves.
Cream Cheese and Nuts-Take package
OF cream cheese and put in bowl with
ing and mix thoroughly with a silver or
wooden spoon. While one does this an
| other can be chopping English walnuts or
pecans In a wooden bowl. When the nuts
are ready stir them into the cheese and
dressing. When all ingredients are well
mixed spread the paste on square. crisp
crackers
Cream Cheese With Gooseberry Sauce
Fresh gooseberries, IL they are ripe. form
an excellent combination with cream
cheese. II ripe gooseberries cannot be oh
tanned. the green fruit must be stewed the
day before. Anticipating the Sunday night
picnic. the hostess may do this in which
case the fruit is set on the table in a
glass bowl The cream cheese NAV be
used just as 1t comes, or it can be mixed
with a cup of whipped cream to make IL go
further and taste little better If desired
the cheese and cream so mixed may be
placed in little mound in the center of a
glass dish and the gooseberries poured
around them. The combination is delicious
and may be eaten on with soda crackers
Hard-boiled Eggs and Cheese-Boil the
eggs and then cool them by placing in cold
water. Cut in half lengthwise and remove
the yolks. Mix them in a bowl with a bit
of cream cheese. some butter. little mus
tard, pepper and salt Stir thoroughly and
then put them back into the whites serve
on platter garnished with parsley or let
tuce leaves.
Hot Hard-boiled Eggs With Mayonnaise
After the eggs are thoroughly done, open
and cut Tengthwise Place on a round
/ dish, which should be edged with small
lettuce leaves Pour over the eggs the may
onnaise described above.
Cold Ham and Chicken-This is a combi-
nation OF which southern people are very
fond. If there is no cold sliced chicken In
your ice box on Sunday night, open a can
and pick some good Slices Then take your
cold boiled ham and cut into small pieces
Place these alternately on a platter and
garniSh with parsley or green pepper i'm
long thin slices. If preferred, the ham and
chicken may be minced in chopping bowl,
seasoned with green peppers. and served by
spreading on bread in sandwich form, or
put In a bowl and covered with a salad
dressing.
Sponge Cake, Fruit and Whipped Cream
1t does not matter for this whether the
cake Is fresh stale Either will do. Cut
the cake with a sharp knife INTO slices and
place In one large glass dish or in the in
dividual glass cups that are 50 popular and
each piece Of cake. Then put on a few
spoons of fruit. slightly mashed with
silver spoon and sweetened to taste. Then
add whipped cream to cover the whole. Do
not sweeten the cream too much; flavor 1t
with bitter almond
Mixed Berries-Red and black raspber-
ries, having such different flavor, are
delightful when mixed. II some blackber-
ries are put in the same dish with them the
combinations gains I'm variety. Currants
are also piquant addition to the red and
black raspberries. II you want something
different from sugar and cream-and cream
does not go well with currants-make q
bowl OF meringue. taking one tablespoon OF
sugar to the white OF one egg and fiavoring
with vanilla: Serve this meringue uncook-
ed In little glass dishes at each place and
each one can dip the currants or other
fruit In at will
Cautaloupe. cream and peaches-Take
small eantaleupes and cut In half. care
fully removing all the seeds. Let one OF
the guests go to the nearest confectioner's
for quart OF ice cream. Fill the followed
half Of the melons with ice cream and lay
slices of sweetened peaches on top II
more convenient, the melons may be flied
with whipped cream into which small
pieces of peaches have been stirred Flavor
this cream with bitter almond.
Orange, Banana and Apple Combination