Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-28

| worked In silence. I put as many nut
meats as would brown well into the pan
| at a time, stirred them constantly IN the
| browning butter, keeping tho gas at just
| the right height, so that the meats should
neither brown too much nor taste OF
| scorched butter. When they were just the
desired shade of brown I took them out
! with long handled skinner. shaking them
/ carefully then turned them over TO Mrs.
| Underwood, who spread them on the waxed
paper and sprtnkled salt over them.
Before we had finished Dicky and Mr..
| Underwood appeared at the kitchen door
bearing between them as II II were heavy
| barrel the tiny jar Of onions.
"Heave no, my hearties," sang out Dlcky.
| Here's your cargo
we finished the nuts, then went back to
| the dining room and the sandwiches. Lil-
| lian cut the bread and 7 prepared the fll-
| ings. Then we both spread the slices with
| a very thin coating Of butter and more
| liberal one of Filings / had made
Lillian went at the sandwich bread Ike
a practiced hand. she first removed with
| n sharp knife the entire crust of the loaf
| then cut IL in thin slices, and finally, with
| my biscuit cutters cut these into stars and
| circles She made also some triangles
| with skill which could not have
| equaled
| them completed. one was made of caviar
dotted with tiny onions. 80 small they
looked almost like grains OF rice. For
another I chopped anchovies and stutfed
olives together until they were paste.
while for a third I rubbed the yolks of
some hard-boiled eggs I had directed
Katie 10 prepare after breakfast with an
equal amount of sardines. | moIstened all
Of them thoroughly with lemon Juice To
me there is nothing so delicate, so appe-
tizing, as mixture Of lemon juice with
almost all sandwich Giliugs.
We finished the sandwiches, piled them
! daint!ly upon my prettlest china plates
and covered them carefully with napkins
what next?' demanded Lillian.
THE next thing is to prepare some sort
of supper for you people," | said, stretch
ing my hand to ring the bell for Katie
She caught my hand before / could touch
the bell.
Supper for us! Are you crazy, my dear?
There will be no supper in this apartment
this afternoon. ! know what Dickys sup
pers at night are. I've attended them be-
fore, and II we take anything moro than
cup of tea and one of these delicious
sandwiches apece-you have loads too
many as II is-we can't enjoy anything to-
night. If you'll have Katie brew some tea
I'll serve the tea and sandwiches myself
right in the living room. Then we can
straighten up here and get your table ready.
incidentally, these flowers are the most
stunning things in that earthen pot. Wher-
ever did you pick 1t up?"
"Dlclty ferreted it out of the Kitchen" /
returned.
He has a wonderful eye for those
things" she returned. Come on. let's have
our tea before we do anything else"
There was no resisting her She had her
way in everything. We drank our tea and
alto our sandwiches in the living room, and
she had cleared everything away and re-
stored the room to order in time. She
helped cut up the cheese and cleared away
the debris of the sandwich making from the
dining room, leaving Katie free for the
opening of the oysters. Then she helped
mo spread my embroidered centerpece and
doilles upon the table and to put upon 1t
the dishes and silver mostly wedding pres
ents, which ] brought out. When we had
finished the table. with the spring blossoms
in the center, we both looked at it in ad-
mlration.
1 called Dlcky to place the things in
readiness for his rabbit and the cooking of
his oysters and went to my room to dress
leaving Mrs Underwood to assist Dlcky or
talk to her husband. whichever she wished |
1t was now we'll after z. The ringing of
the door bell told me that the Testers had