New Britain herald., 1923-10-18

Pumpkin pie. apples, nuts ana cider
seem TO 20 hand In hand with Hal
iowe'en. but time .honored an they are.
there's once In a while n hostess who
wants something different" for her
party.
Perhaps the party has dealt heav-
| lily with the occult" What more
npropos than a ghost supper served
by the spirits themselves
Menu for Ghost Supper
Cream OF Corn Soup
Toasted Crackers
Shades Of Chicken
spool<s Salad Cheese Cups
Orange Ice
soothsayers Puff Balls
Coffee
The cream Of corn soup Is topped
with a spoonful of whipped cream.
Fresh buttered popcorn can be served
with 1t III place Of the toasted
crackers.
Shades OF chicken, being the piece
de resistance" requires recipe.
Shades OF Chicken
Ono year old chicken, | pint oys-
ters. l.. pound mushrooms, sweet
green peppers, Ia cup butter, 3 table.
spoons flour, | teaspoon salt IA tea
spoon pepper. ! cup chicken stock,
cup thin cream or rich milk,
tablespoon minced parsley. egg
yolks, Ia cup minced celery, paprika,
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 the bones and cut in neat
cubes. Great care should be taken
that every bit of skin or gristlc is
removed from the meat. There should
be about four cups. Pick over and
wash oysters.
Peel and slice mushrooms. Scald
peppers, slip of thin outer Aim and
remove seeds and white ribs. Mincc.
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 parsley and two
eggs slightly beaten. Remove from
fire and keep hot over hot water.
Serve on mounds Of rice with q
generous dash of paprika.
This rule is calculated to serve IL
persons.
SpOok's Salad
Fill apple shells with mixture of |
celery, apple and nuts.
The proportions are as follows:
Two cups diced apples, cups diced
celery, cups seeded white grapes
cups nut meats. shredded cocoanut,
salad dressing.
Mix apples, celery, nuts and grapes
With salad dressing. Fill apple cups
With mixture and shroud with cocoa
nut
To make apple shells cut slice
rom stem end of apple. With a
grapefruit knife or strong spoon scoop
tut the inside of the apple, leaving
she'll about half inch thick.
Soothsayer's Puf-BalIs
One and one-half cups sugar q CHIP
utter and lard mixed. / cup water,
X cups pastry flour, teaspoons
,aking powder, Is teaspoon salt, I /
vanilla, whites four eggs.
Cream shortening and slowly beat
y sugar Nix and sift -four, salt and
aking powder. Add Alternately with
water TO first mixture Add vanilla.
Beat whites of eggs until stiff and dry
nd fold into mixture the last thing .
efore baking. Bake in tiny round /
ottcnied muffin irons. Capsules con
aiming fortunes can be stirred into
he batter with the -four.
Use the largest sized capsules known
S double o." Write fortune on
hin slips of paper and put in can
ules. There should be different
ortune for each guest, and care must
g observed that each cake contains
capsule.
These cakes are frosted with an
ing made with the yolks of the eggs.
Yellow Frosting
Four eggs yolks. y cups powdered
1gar. tablespoons softened butter.
vanilla. Z
Beat eggs slightly. Sift in sugar =
nd continue beating Add butter Bit 7
bit. beating hard. Beat in vanilla 4
pread on cakes and let harden.