The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-31
Recipes of Tasty Holiday Dishes
for the Festivities of Mid=Winter
Suitable Affairs Throughout
Frosty Efects-Suggions
Night Partes-Game n for FewD Days

A1Ew YEARS DAY furnishes al
M excellent excuse, II ono be need
" ed, for those who Ike to enter
tain, while Twelfth Night. com
monty called Little Christmas" which
falls on January 6, provides another op
portunity for the hospitnble hostess
A luncheon or Il dinner is the most fit
ting function for Now Years Day un
less ono holds u private reception. anC
the especially appropriate entertain
ment for Twelfth Night Is supper
because OF It's informality and latitude
in frolic and fun.
Decorations for the New Year affair
DIT. for that matter. any day In J9pu-
ary. should be flowers. fruit and fayors
in season There is nothing more beau
tiful than low gilt basket flled with
poInsettias. but one must remember 10
cut tho stems as soon as they come
from the florists. or they Will wfthcr
before the feast be over BY the end OF
January these beautiful flowers are
gone, so they should be used as long as
IL IS possible To secure them. Another
pretty table decoration. and one much
used this year, is a winter scene. A
frozen pond can be madc by using a
large oval or oblong mirror and FROST
ing II over with a sponge dipped In
bath OF epson salts and beer; as much
>f the salts as the beer Will take up in
lolution. The edge OF the mirror may
be concealed by cvcrgreens, diamond
busted, and II ono wishes TO go so far
polar bears. seals and perhaps Eskimos
from the toy store may be placed on
the frozen lake and snowy banks. OF
course, with this there should DO favorS
and place cards 10 match the winter
scene. The Ice cream may bo biscuit
tortonl packed in small pasteboard or
paper sleds; any handy boy can make
these sleds, although they, too. can be
found in the shops.
For the Twelfth Night decoration
there should be a star OF red flowers
In tho centre OF the table. The star
foundation could be made OF tin with
turned-up edges. so that IL would hold
water. or wet moss. which Is far better.
The flowers could be scarlet geraniums
IL procurabie. or red immortelles.
pretty candle decoration FOR the
January supper table is an arrange
ment OF ordinary sized red candles in
glass, silver or brass candlestlcks sur
rounded by a circle of small red candles.
This arrangement is obtained by max
Ing for each candlestlck n cardboard
disk from five To SIX inches In diam
tter, TO be used in the place OF tho or
nlnary socket. There should be a hole
In the centre for tho largo candle and
tiny Christmas tree candle holders
around the edge. six or eight OF them
toi blio NaDtlt6. neSC
may be covered with red paper or with
green, and busted with mica II the
latter, a number OF glass icicles OF diff
lercnt lengths could be fastened to the
edges.
Among the flowers suitable for the
january function we find roses. carna-
uons and a hothouse variety OF bach
elor buttons called Centaurea These
ore in white, pink OF lavender. and are
a little less ordinary than the roses and
carnations.
Much OF the food for these January
affairs Is undoubtedly expensive, but
the wise hostess Will select from the
following suggestions only those that
are scasonaole and possible I'm her To-
callty. 1t is usually the forced prod
ucts or the inaccessible that are an cn-
travagance. Undoubtedly the Jnnuary
hostess viii uso game as long as she
can get It. for although the season
closes January flrst. all dealers are al
lowed ten or fifteen days to sell that
which they have on hand. AS long as Il
is possible TO secure partridge. grouse
DR. prairie chicken / would advise cook