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A PAPER BAG LUNCHEON.

A paper bag cooked luncheon. with
bridge to follow. or an afternoon col
lation prepared In the paper bags and
served after the game. will provide
new note In social hospitality.
With a large party 1t is not wise
to undertake individual bag cooking.
Better have bags for each tableful.
limiting the tables to playing size.
The two menus here Civen are ad-
Unstable either to luncheon. afternoon
collations or late suppers. Claret
punch, Sauterne cup, or tea-lemonade
should be served with each. winding
up with black coffee or chocolate
made With little brandy and very
lightly sweetened. Sailed nuts. olives
and radishes are also served, either
together or separate. at he discretion
of the hostess.
Diamonds of Chicken on Toast
Green Peas Sliced Potatoes
Hot Biscuit
Fruit Endive Salad Sherry Dressing
Asparagus with Cheese
Cheese Cakes
Sliced Marble or Spice Cake
Nuts Raisins Crystallized Fruit
Diamonds OF chicken are on the sur
ACE extravagant, but less so than
hey seem. for the rest Of the chicken
aeed not go to waste. The diamonds
ire the breast cut In half lengthwise,
,oned, trimmed, and fattened. but
,ot mashed. They are very well but
,ered, lightly seasoned with salt and
pepper, have a sliced mushroom laid
IN top. and are wrapped In thin sliced
,acon, then cooked In a well buttered
rag about twenty minutes. While
hey cook get read::- thin diamonds OF
cast Cut 1t from stale bread and
make as crisp as possible. Butter lib
rally. and keep very hot without
lcorching. Lay chicken diamond
IN each piece of toast and keep all
rot while you add to the gravy in the
rag, which must be poured into
mall saucepan. minced olives. minced
celery, little lemon Juice, lump
If butter rolled very lightly In flour.
and the lightest sprinkle of powdered
sweet herbs. Cook over rot water till
well mixed, then add a spoonful or SO
of cream. stir it we'll through. and
finish with a spoonful or so Of sherry.
Do not cook after the wine Is in.
Pour the sauce equally over the dia-
monds and send to table very hot.
Green peas and sliced potatoes have
been heretofore ascribed. Make your
biscuit very tiny. also very short and
light. For the salad cut up French
endive in inch lengths. along with
peeled high favored apples and heart
celery. Mix all well together. put
heaping spoonfuls upon crisp lettuce
leaves and garnish with celery tips
and strings of pimento. Pour over a
dressing made from three tablespoon
fuls best oil, one tablespoonful lemon
juice, one tablespoonful sherry. half
a teaspoonful Of sugar. a pinch of
salt. red and black pepper to taste
and few drops of tobasco or chilli
vinegar. Mix the dry ingredients
we'll. .dd the lemon Juice. beat
smooth. then put in the tobasco. Then
add alternately the oil and sherry.
beating in each portion well before
add another.
What follows sounds simple. yet
may turn out more troublesome:
Savory Mouthfuls Sweet Potato
Straws Celery Hearts
Mushrooms Stewed in Cream
Apple Brown Bread Sandwiches
Sliced Cake In Variety
Fruit Nuts Bon-Bons
For the savory mouthfuls first make
good puff paste. roll 1t very thin.
then cut neatly into small squares
say .hree inches across. Tut upon the