The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-29
Efficient Housekeeping
 By LAURA A. HERMAN.
DAINTTES TO SERVE WITH IGE.D
 DRINKS

When friends drop in. on a warm afternoon or evening, the housekeep- CT feels that she must offer an iced drink It is nice to offer, as well, a bite to eat''-something dainty and sweetened, such as the following:
 Maple Marguerites-Beat the whites of two eggs stiff, and three tablespoons of f1nely-crushed maple sugar (gradually), and whip again until very stiff. Then mix in ,one cup of roasted peanuts or walnut meats chopped, and spread this mixture on small ursweetened crackers. Slip each cracker into the oven until the nut meringue browns slightly. Serve cold.
 Scotch Fingers-(Contribut by a reader). Grind two cups of uncook- ed rolled oats in the food chopper and mix with them one-half teaspoon salt, | three tablespoons baking powder, and one-Quarter cup sugar. Stir in one fourth cup of milk, one-four cup mo- | lasSes, and one one-half tablespoons l of melted butter. then mix well. Roll | this out into very thin sheet and l cut into narrow. oblong pieces. flour ing the board with ground rolled oats 1 as you do this. Bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven.
 Cocoanut Sandwiches - Dissolve l over mild heat, one rounded table spoon of butter and two tablespoons | of sugar; let this cool, then add two | tablespoons of grated cocoanut, the beaten eggs. Chill in refrigerator be- fore spreading between thin slices of white bread. Cut each sandwich round with a cookie cutter.
 | RockS"Cream together one and one-half cups of brown sugar and one | cup butter. Add two we1l-beaten eggs, two tablespoons of molasses in | which one teaspoon of soda has been | l 1lr-x,S T of flour sifted with one teaspoon cin- namon and a pinch of salt Mix well | and add one and one-haf pounds oi | English walnut meats broken small | and one cup of raisins. Drop in tea spoonfuls on battered pan and bake in a hot oven. Halve this recipe fou a small number of persons.)
 Lemon ndwiches-(Very delici- ouS.) Cook in a small saucepan one cup of sugar, the juice and grated rind of one lemon. the yo1ks of three eggs and white of one beaten. an6 three tablespoons of butter. Wher thin slices of white bread while luke
 warm. Cut off crusts, and cut eacf
 sandwich diagonally across to form
 two triangles- Serve them cold. MarshmaIIow "Oueens"-Place
 nna.rshmalhow between two small
 salty, square carckers Cor any kind O
 small unsweetened cracker) ant
 sprinkle on the top cracker a 1ittI
 
 brown with ground cinnamon. Slil
 these cracker sandwiches into yer,
 hot oven and leave them there onl. just long enough for the sugar on tn
 cracker to melt slightly, and for tn marshma1bow to become soft enougl to begin to run. Press the hot crack CTS together a little, and let cool be | fore serving.
 Chocolate Sandwiches-Mix to
 smooth paste five tablespoons pow
 dered sugar, two tablespoons each O
 powdered cocoa and boiling water ) and one-half teaspoon vanilla extract . Let cool before spreading betwee thin slices of white bread or crackers
 Tomorrow-AnSWered Letters All inquiries addressed to Mis- Kirkman in care of the "Efficien Housekeeping department will b answered in these columns in thei turn. This requires conSiderabl l time. however, owing to the srea numb received. So if a personal O quicker reply is resired. a. stampe s and self-addressed envelope must b = Editor.