The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-20
TABLE DELICACES
APPETlZlNG SALAD AND AN
EMERGENCY DESSERT.
Light Meal Easily Provided and AP
psallns 10 the Pslate-corn Pud.
ding with Tomato = Recipe
for Chicken croquettss.

A salad may be made with tomato
without vinegar for An invalid. Use salt
pepper and sherry, but no oil. Choose
very firm tomatoes for salad. Sliced
tomatoes may be dressed With horse
Fadish and chopped parsley and iAie
upon lettuce. Pass French dressing.
Emergency Dessert. = An E9am
cheese, a crock Of pure ApUis butter,
. tin Of good crackers and sems eAoice
cofiee or tea provide a dessert -
short notice. To neglect the table foI
mental pleasure Is rot right, but e is
perfectly right to satisfy the appestSs
and palate with food that Is easily
provided, and so leave time for other
pursuits, and 10 some to the table
rested and the mind filled with agro@
able thoughts gained from reading o.
q chat with cultured friends.
With food so well prepared for uee
now there is little reason for undue
amount of time and strength uaed uB
over the mixing table and the oven,
and, what is far more wearisome, ahs
scullsry work Good fruit costs s@une
thing, but far less than doctors bills
It always sets on table, and Is surs
10 meet the needs OF the rising gensrs
tion. The wife Of learned man said
recently that her half.grown children
mostly boys, smile at their parents
clinging to cooked desserts and refust
them, taking fruit instead, and saying
to their parents that it Is useless %
make cooked desserts at all, as the
parents have such to eat up for lunch
con another day.
Corn Pudding with Tomato.-The
corn that comes canned without any
skins in It makes an excellent corn
pudding or soup. Some people Ike II
mixed with tomato for q soup. Il Il
also nice to stun tomatoes with and
10 make corn chowder, which Is good
Lenten dish. Make corn chowder By
frying out some onion and adding
sliced raw potato, the corn, some milh
and seasonings such as are used IN
.howders Of fish and clans. Add
crackers just as they are used at thu
coast.
Fruit PuddInp.-A frozen fruit pua
ding made with dates, ags, rice. gela
tine and grapejuice is put together
In this fashion: Soak half a package
" gelatine in one cupful Of cold water
for 80 minutes, and set It over hoi
water until the gelatsne is all dis
solved, and then partially cool it. ADD
to 1t a cupful OF either Concord o.
CataWba or other pleasing variety Of
grapejuice; a small cupful OF sugar
half cupful Of boiled rice, and 6
fourth Of a cupful Of cut up seeded
dates and the same Of figs. Freeze un
III 3 smooth. hrm mass, and serve IA
lee cream dishes or high glasses.
Chicken crcqusttsa. Occasions artist
when chicken croQuettes seem a necss
sity, and the following recipe will b
found invaluable:
Boil q tender. moderate-siEed chick
en- till tender and cut the meat intt
dice. Saute IN butter onequartei
pound OF fresh mushrooms, which havt
been peeled and stenmed. Make {
cream sauce by rubbing three table
spoonfuls Of -four into one-quartei
pound Of butter, melted, and addinl
one.half cap Of chicken stock and han
. pint of sweet cream, stirring until D
bolls and is very smooth Removt
from the are and add salt and pepper
TO taste. the Juice OF half lemon ana
Just hint Of nutmeg. Spread this o.
platter until cool, then form into Gro
qusttes, dip in egg. then in crumbs
then in egg, then IN crumbs. and tr9
TO a golden brown In deep fat.