The Delta independent., 1907-03-15
IDEAS FOR FEAST
SANDWICH PARTY is A NOVEL
ENTERTAlNMENT
Something Different from the Usual
Lunch Counter" Refreshments
RECIPES for Many Dainty
Little Dishes.

Quite the newest thing in the way
o. entertainment is the sandwich
party. 1t isn't as economical as 1t
sounds, but it's fun.
When the guests had arrived the
hostess husband gravely walked
through the room in the guise OF
sandwich man, and the legend on the
placards read, Sandwiches will be
given away free tonight by Jane Pey-
ton"
At the sandwich feast there was not
a reminder of the good old reliable
lunch counter in sight.
Roast beef. ham and cheese were
conspicuous by their absence, but
there were the daintiest lettuce and
mayonnaise sandwiches, bread and
butter sandwiches as thin as knife
could cut them, nut sandwiches and
chicken sandwiches. with celery, olives
and other small edibles. A delicious
nesselrode pudding finished the feast.
OYSTER FRITTERS.-Chop 25 oys-
ters. Make batter of two cups OF
milk, two of flour, two well-beaten
eggs, a teaspoonful of baking powder,
small spoon of salt. Stir in the oys-
ters. If the mixture is too stiff add
more milk. Bake on Sriddle or drop
by spoonfuls into very hot fat. II the
latter is done. drain well before serv-
ing.
CHERRY PUDDING.-Make a Gus
tard of pint of milk. yolks of two
eggs. tablespoonful of cornstarch and
little salt. Cook in double boiler and
favor with vanilla. Let cool. Drain
the syrup from pint of cherry pre-
serve and pit the cherries. reserving
six or eight. Heat the syrup to the
boiling point and thicken with large
teaspoonful of cornstarch. There will
be about a teacupful of syrup; set
this away to cool. Just before serving
stir the cherries into the custard and
put into a glass dish. Beat the white
to a stiff froth. sweeten with three
tablespoonfuls Of powdered sugar and
put in spoonfuls on top of custard,
placing cherry on top of each. Pour
the syrup in the space around the
spoonfuls of froth.
DELICATE PUDDING.-One and
one-half cups water. one-half cup
sugar, one-half saltspoon salt, well
mixed and brought to the boiling point.
Wet three tablespoons cornstarch in
little cold water, stir into the boiling
syrup and cook ten minutes. Beat
the whites OF three eggs to a dry froth
and whip the boiling mixture into
them; return to the fire one minute to
set the egg, adding one-half cup lemon
juice and little of the grated rind.
Turn at once into a mold that has been
wet in cold water. and set away to be-
come ice cold. Serve with strawber-
ries or other fruit piled high in the
cente.: Or pour a soft custard around
as sauce.
HUNTERS STEW.-Take one pound
Of steak. bottom of the round, cut in
four or five pieces. and brown well on
both sides in hot frying pan. Also
brown in the same way four large
onions, do not slice. but keep them
whole, and large carrot cut length
wise In four pieces. Turn all into a
small kettle and brown in the frying
pan one heaping tablespoon of flour.
When brown, add one and half cups
of hot water and piece of butter the
size of a walnut. Let thicken and
strain over the meat and vegetables
in the kettle. Shake the salt cellar
four times over it, then let simmer.
closely covered, for two hours. This
is an English dish and is truly de!ic-
Observation-Disclosures Star.