Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-15
How To Serve A
Hallowe en- Supper
By Sister Mary

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- By Sister Mary
Pumpkin pie, apples, nuts and
cider seem to go hand in hand with
Halloween, but time-honored as
they are, there's once in a while a
hostess who wants something diff
ferent" for her party.
Perhaps the party has dealt heav-
lily with the occult" What more
apropos than a ghost supper served
by the spirits themselves?
Menu for Ghost Supper
Cream of corn Soup
Toasted Crackers
Shades of Chicken
spooks Salad Cheese Cups
Orange Ice
Soothsyares Puff-Balls
Coffee
The cream of corn soup is topped
with a spoonful of whipped cream.
Fresh butteHed popcorn can be serv-
ed with it in place of the toasted
crackers.
Shades of chicken, being the
"piece de resistance" requires a re-
cipe.
Shades of Chicken
One year old chicken, l pint oys-
| ters, IL pound mushrooms, 3 sweet
green peppers, Ia cup butter, 3
! tablespoons flour, / teaspoon salt,
Ia teaspoon pepper, l cup chicken
| stock, / cup thin cream or rich milk,
1 tablespoon minced parsley, ? esq
yolks, 1-3 cup minced celery, pap
rika, hot boiled rice.
Stew chicken in water to cover.
| The chicken should be tender but not
| falling from the bones when re-
moved from the fire. Remove from
| broth and let stand until cold. Re-
move from bones and cut in neat
cubes. Great care should be taken
that every bit of skin or gristle is
removed from the meat. There
! should be about four cups. Pick
over and wash oysters.
Peel and slice mushrooms. Scald
peppers, slip off thin outer film and
remove seeds and white ribs. Mince
Melt butter, add mushrooms and
cook five minutes. Add flour and
stir until smooth. Slowly add stock
and milk, stirring constantly. When
perfectly smooth add chicken dice,
oysters, peppers and celery. Cook
until the oysters plump. Add par
sley and stir in eggs slightly beaten.
Remove from fire and keep hot over
hot water. Serve on mounds of rice
with a generous dash of paprika.
This rule is calculated to serve IL
persons.
Spook's Salad
Fill apple shells with a mixture
of celery, apple and nuts.
The proportions are rs follows:
Two cups diced apples, 2 cups
diced celery, 2 cups seeded white
grapes 2 cups nut meats, shredded
cocoanut, salad dressing.
Mix apples, celery, nuts and
grapes with salad dressing. Fill APP
pie fcups with mixture and shroud
with cocoanut.
To make apple shells cut a slice
from stem end of apple. With a
grapefruit knife or strong spoon
scoop out the inside of the apple,
leaving a shell about one-half inch
thick,
Soothsayer's Puff-Balis
One and one-half cups sugar, 2-S
cup butter and lard mixed, 1 cup
| water, . 1-2 cups pastry flour, 3 tea
spoons baking powder, lis teaspoon
sasS l teaspoon vanilla, whites four
eggs.
Cream shortening and slowly beat
in sugar, Mix and sift flour, salt and
baking powder. And alternately
| with water to first mixture. Add
vanilla. Beat whites of eggs until
| stiff and dry and fold into mixture
the last thing before baking. Bake
in tiny roun&b ottomed muffin irons.
Capsules containing fortunes" can
be stirred into the batter with the
flour.
Use the largest sized capsules
| known as double o." Write a for
| tune on thin slips of paper and put
in capsules. There should be a diff
ferent fortune for each guest, and
care must be observed that each
| cake contains a capsule.
These cakes are frosted with an
icing made with the yolks of. the
eggs.
yellow Frosting
Four egg yolks, / IL cups pow
dered sugar, 2 tablespoons softened
butter, / teaspoon vanilla.
Beat eggs slightly. Sift in sugar
and continue beating. Add butter
bit by bit, beating hard. Beat in
vanilla. Spread on cakes and let
harden.
Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.)
NEURALGIA
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