Evening star., 1926-02-05
Menus and Decorations
Preparations for February Festivities on St. Nalen.
tines Day and Washinston's Birthday Require
d Some Very Attractive Accessory Features

with cupful Of milk thiCknned with
= tablespoonful each Of -four and but.
ter rubbed smooth. Season with salt.
red pepper, chopped parsley. little
lemon juice. and cook until thick.
MinCe and pound To a paste one cup
tul of cold boiled ish and stir into the
sauce and let il boil up once. then take
from the fire a nd beat until cold. Fold
in the whites OF three eggs. beaten
stiff. and put in buttered molds and
bake in pan oi hot water for Il
minutes. Turn out onto individual
plates and pour over this a sauce made
by adding a scupful Of finely mashed
lobster meat TO Il small cupful al white
50 nee well easoned. Strain this
through n sieve.
Large white California cherries may
he used for the salad. Remove the
stones a nd fill the cavities with tilherts
from which the skins have been re-
moved. and arrange on a he'd Of let
tuce leaves. Sprinkle finely chopped
parsley over all. then pour over II
French dressing. The ice cream
which is plain vanilla cream with
candied cherries. should no served in
mental hats. Cakes in hatcher design
should he served. and also biscuits and
Sandwiches in the shapes ot hatchets.
'~'HtfP menu.
Grapefruit With Cherries
Cream Enuilion
Rr"led lHmh chops Fot"t" Balls
Bread ana Hulter SandNichs-
MT and Celery Salad Cheese
Ice Cream Fancy Cakes Eonhons
totiee
H@ivc the era npefruit and thorous hlv
chill it. then sprinkle with powdered
sugar and carnish the top with pre-
served ch"ri'i :. Serve on blue sau-
ce,s. In facf. hlua dishes should he
nsed for the entire service. If few
drops of yellow vegetable colorne are
added I" the houilion. the blue and
buff color scheme viii be plea sanity re-
fected. Decorate the lamb chops with
blue and buff paper chop frills. Ar.
range the potatoes cannon ball style
and surm"unt with tiny blue and
buff flag. Cut the sandwiches ont 70
simulate colonial hats Serve the
salad in blue and hun paper salad
CUPS. Have the ice cream frozen
cannon hall shape and decorate each
hall with n Colonial has Ice the
cakes With blue and buff Drums with
and without drumSticks can ne used
"a hold ices and honbons or salted
nuts. AIS" Stumps Of miniature trees
followed alt and ha wing cherry stems
and tiny httchets buried in the trunks
can he used To hold ices. salads or
hnnbonS.
Washington Ice Cream I.na An At
tractiNe way To serve the ices is to
have a yellow and viole, ice cream
nodded in LAYERS in = loaf When
ready To serve. place a cluster Of
mara Schin" cherries. with citron or
angelica stems and folis ge on the top
HnC arra NE some 81 the cherries
around the base Of the loaf Candied
chs rrieS Ga be used in place of the
ma aschin" cherries. The violet and
yellow carry out the Colonial colors of
hun and blue.
For souvenirs give each guest
small fra med picture either Of Wash.
inston OF Mount Vernon. or Of some
other place ar event connected with
his life. or the souvenirs NAV he
ni1niaturH tree Stumps with hatchetS
buried IT, one side and clusters OF
che rries top. and the followed
StumDs fille'l with candied cherries
with stems.