Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-02-15
HOMEMAKKRS COLUMN.
The Informal Sunday Night sapper.

The lsformal Sunday Night Sapper,
In many homes the Sunday night snip
Der 10 the anticipated event OF the week
The hosts and guests enjoy 1t thorough
" - the preparations have not been in
tricate or tiresome, and the hostess Il
not apt 10 be in Q tired, worried and ner-
yous frame OF mind when she greets her
guests. For q supper the table can be
i lust a attractive and the menu equally
tenn pting as for an elaborate dinner Of
greater expense.
Half after Z or 8 O'Clock 10 . popular
and practical hour TO have supper, q
the dinner has, probably, not been early
Lunch cloth and napkins, or the diet
lace and cut-work runners and doiifei
are suitable for the table. Glass or ell
YER coasters can be used for tho protec-
ton of the polished table.
Flowers are always in keeping, but
one should not have the same elaborate
floral arrangement for . Sunday night
supper that would be used to deck the
formal dinner board Of many covers.
| In lieu of flowers, . high or low silver
bowl of assorted fruits 10 effective, while
a pretty and decorative receptacle filled
with dried fruits and puts for the des'
sert might answer az centerpiece.
Not long ago an ingenious young
woman had on her table long, odd
brown basket, in which she used both
flowers and fruits,-in one end . quanti-
ty of golden daffodils and in the other a
variety of yellow fruits, centering around
q tall pineapple. The effect was pleas
ing.
OF menus for the Sunday night supper
there are many. In many families there
is regulation menu, always ready Tor
the few guests who may drop In.
In one home, every Sunday night, cold
roast duck, apple sauce, grapefruit salad,
cheese and -nutbread sandwiches with
hot chocolate complete the menu.
Another young hostess makes special
| ty of her potato salad, not plebian dish
this. but q wonderful collection of good
ingredients. With the cubes OF potatoes
and a generous supply of mayonnaise,
abe uses q can of French peas, chopped
nut meats, grated hard-boiled eggs and
n garrish of pimento and lettuce. With
this she serves cold tongue, or q small
sugar cured ham with India relish or q
raisiu sauce, buttered slices of brown
bread, and coffee.
Cold chicken With a border of hard.
boiled eggs, dipped in chopped pickle
around the platter, escalloped cheese po
tatoes, tomato salad, cottage cheese
jelly, and hot battered rolls, make an
other good combination.
| Welsh rarebit, lobster Newburg, OF
creamed chicken, made in the chatting
dish and served with an assortment oil
sandwiches and coffee, is ample for the
Sunday feast.
In large New England family, where
the married children and their children
always come home for the Sunday sup
per, popping corn and eating it in bowls
of rich milk is always q part of the pro
this is never omitted.
Something in the way of surprise OF
an innovation adds decidedly to the
charm of the informal supper. A Dutch
supper with pretzels and sailed nuts, or
a menu composed of various national
dishes, or an old-time feast OF New Eng
Hand baked beans and brown bread, with
pickles, jelly and coffee, might be tried
For a plantation supper, waft1es oil
pancakes, with thin-sliced bacon or tiny
sausages, could not but be different and
appstizing, possibly, after the guests
have been on long tramp or motor trip
The original hostess can think NJ
many a scheme with which to make bel
friends feel that she can entertain
though not beyond her means, most de-
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