Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1908-05-13
TABLE DELICACIES
APPETlZiNG SALAD AND AN
EMERGENCY DESSERT.
Light Meal Easily Provided and APP
pealing to the Palate-Corn Pud-
ding with Tomato - Recipe
for Chicken CroAuettes.


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
I'matoes may be dressed with horse
sadish and chopped parsley and laid
upon lettuce. Pass French dressing.
Emergency Dessert. An Edam
cheese. crock OF pure apple butter.
tin OF good crackers and some choice
coffee or tea provide a dessert at
short notice. To neglect the table for
mental pleasure is not right. but II Ia
perfectly right TO satisfy the appetite
and palate with food that Is easily
provided, and SO leave time for other
pursuits. and To- some to the table
rested and the mind filled with agree
able thoughts gained from reading or
chat with cultured friends.
With food SO well prepared for use
now there is little reason for undue
amount OF time and strength used up
over the mixing table and the oven,
and, what is far more wearisome. the
scullery work. Good fruit costs some.
thing. but far less than Doctors bills.
1t always sets OF a table, and ID sure
to meet the needs Of the rising genera.
ton. The wife of learned man said
recently that her half.grown children,
mostly boys, smile at their parents
clinging to cooked desserts and refuse
them, taking fruit instead, and saying
to their parents that II is useless to
make cooked desserts at all, az the
nnrantc hova o.,
con another day.
Corn Pudding with Tomato.-The
corn that comes canned without any
skins In II makes an excellent corn
pudding or soup. Some people like It
mixed with tomato for a soup. It Is
also nice to stun tomatoes with and
to make corn chowder, which Is a good
Lenten dish. Make corn chowder by
frying out some onion and adding
sliced raw potato the corn, some milk
and seasonings such as are used In
chowders of fish and clans Add
crackers Just rs they are used at the
coast
Fruit Pudding.-A frozen fruit pud.
ding made with dates, figs, rice, gela-
tine and grapejuice. Is put together
In this fashion: Soak half package
OF gelatine In one cupful Of cold water
Tor 30 minutes. and set IL over hot
water until the gelatine is all dis
solved. and then partially cool 1t. Add
to 1t cupful of either Concord or
Catawba or other pleasing variety of
grapejuice; a small cupful OF sugar,
half a cupful of boiled rice, and a
fourth OF n cupful Of cut up seeded
dates and the same of figs. Freeze un.
I'll smooth, firm mass. and serve in
Ice cream dishes or high glasses.
Chicken Croquettes.-Occasio arise
when chicken croquettes seem a neces-
sity, and the following recipe will be
found invaluable
Boil tender. moderate sized chick
en- till tender and cut the meat into
dice. Saute in butter one-uuarter
pound OF fresh mushrooms, which have
been peeled and stemmed. Make a
cream sauce by rubbing three table
spoonfuls of -four into one-quarter
pound OF butter, melted, and adding
one-half cup Of chicken stock and half
pint OF sweet cream, stirring until It
Dolls and is very smooth. Remove
from the fire and add salt and pepper
to taste. the Juice of half lemon and
Just hint of nutmeg. Spread this on
platter until cool, then form into GRO
quotes, dip In egg, then in crumbs,
then In egg. then in crumbs, and fry
to golden brown in deep fat.