Evening star., 1920-01-09
Food, Health and Thrift
HOLDHINTS FOR NEW YEAR

children were delighted with what
they saw. The first thing that greet
ed them was big rainbow OF blue,
cloth stretched through two rooms.
At one end was the pot OF gold. In
the pot was the number "7' and a
mysterious package. Colored rlooons
led through the house and each child
selected the ribbon he or she wished
to follow. At the end of each ribbon
was a little bag of bonbons. Attached
to one string was the mystic number
a." emitting the finder to the con-
tents of the treasure pot A large
cake showed pink yellow, brown and
white layers, with a delicate frostfng
of purple, making a rainbow effect.
The ice cream was pink, the sherbet
yellow, and the flowers for decora-
tions were various colored hyacinths.
Some Good Salads.
Oyster Salad.-Scald some oysters in
their liquor, then strain. Leave them
in cool place and just before serv-
ing sprinkle with salt and pepper and
arrange on crisp lettuce leaves Pour
over them a dressing made as fol-
lows: Beat up one cup of cream, then
add one tablespoonful of lemon juice
and gradually one-quarter cup of
grated horSeradiSh and one teaspoon
full OF vinegar.
Plain Potato Salad.-Boil some peel
ed potatoes When done but not
crumbly, hollow out the centers, let
cool and then fill with the following:
Chop two hard-boiled eggs and two
made Of one cup Of cream and one
half cup of vinegar, seasoned with
salt pepper and mustard. Garnish
with rings of hard-boiled eggs and
slices of cold-boiled beets. or with
parsley.
Peanut Salad.-Mix together as
much ground peanuts as chopped cab
bage and season with salt. Place on
small cabbage leaves and pour on the
following dressing: Boil together two
eggs well beaten, one-half cup of
vinegar and teaspoonful of butter.
When cold add one-half cup of cream
and one-half cupful of sugar. Lastly
garnish with peanuts
Cottage Cheese Salad.-Take fresh
cottage cheese and add a few broken
nut meats and sweet green pepper
chopped fine. Make the mixture into
balls after adding salt to taste. Have
ready some finely chopped parsley
Roll the balls in this until completely
covered. They may then be used as a
garnish for the salad
Grapefruit Salad.-Cut the stem
ends from three green and three red
peppers. Remove the seeds and refill
the shells with the pulp of finely cut
grapefruit. chopped celery hearts and
broken English walnut meats, allow
ing twice as much grapefruit as
celery and two whole nut meats to
each pepper. Cover with dressing and
serve on lettuce leaves.
Delicious Desserts.
Fill an earthen bowl closely with
thin slices of toasted bread, then
layer of canned red raspberries and
a liberal sprinkling of sugar Con-
tinue until the bowl is full. Place
weight on top and set aside for a
couple of hours. Then remove the
weight ana with large spoon serve
the sponge in cups. Over each serv-
inG pour two tablespoonfuls of sweet
cream. or the sweetened Juice of the
berries thickened with little corn
starch
One-half teaspoonful of lemon
juice. one tablespoonful of powdered
sugar. the white of one egg and two
apples. Pare and core the apples, cut
them in slices, and cook in a small
amount of water until they are very
soft. Pour Off the water and rub
through sieve. Beat the white of
and lemon juice, beat into 1t the apple
pulp and serve with cream.
Stew some prunes and pit them
Soak two tablespoonfuls OF gelatin
in a little water and add to it a cup
Of boiling prune juice. Line mold
with prunes, pour the juice in and
set aside to stiffen. Serve with
whipped cream and powdered sugar.
delicious dessert is made by
scooping out the inside of stale cup
cakes. Fill the cakes with marsh
mallows cut very fine, just a dash
IF lemon and a spoonful of any good
jam. Put in hot oven just before
serving. heat quickly and serve with
any pudding sauce or cream
Boil some rice and just before it
is taken from the stove add one egg
we'll beaten and sugar to taste. Boil
some raisins until tender Pile the
rice on the platter. pour the raisins
over it and add whipped cream.
Make ring of crumbed macaroons
on dessert plates. Fill the center
Of each with whipped cream or ice
cream and arrange some kind of pre-
served fruit or maraschino cherries
on the top just before serving.