Evening star., 1927-10-14

of hard.boiled egg, nut hledlS anu
pimento combined with mayonnalse
and used for stutiing tomatoes
Asparagus. celery and ripe olives
make an excellent vegetable salad
combination. and for a fruit salad ripe
olives may be combined with pears.
Nodded Salads and Others.
One can buy all sorts of fancy
uolds for molding salads. and ii is
real economy to use them for left
overs. It is a good plan to have sew
eral of these molds in different sizes,
as they can be used for desserts as
well. Your salad may need the flavor
OF chopped egg or nut meats in the
mayonnaise, or perhaps pimento or
green peppers in tiny pieces. Ripe
| olives are delicious with chicken salad,
or YOU can cover the salad with
mayonnaise. then decorate with slices
of stuffed olives. Sliced green or red
peppers give the shamrock shape for
decorating the top Of cabbage salad.
Red apples we'll shined, with the
tops notched and filled with the apple
pulp, a little cranberry juice to red.
den. and sliced bananas and maras-
chino cherries are very pretty placed
on small green plates.
Oranges with some of the pulp re-
moved may be filed with few dates
or raisins mixed with banana. Grape
fruit should be filled with pineapple,
grapefruit juice, white grapes and
cherries.
A very good salad for almost any
dinner is crisp lettuce leaves with half
a canned pear on which a square or
! ball OF cream cheese is placed. Spread
scant spoonful of dressing over it.
A salad which is both appetizing
and attractive may be made by divid-
| ing an orange into sections, after
carefully removing all white skin. and
arranging them on lettuce leaves to
| form a flower. In the center drop a
spoonful of stiff mayonnaise made
with whipped cream.
A salad for a special occasion and
| which was recently very much en-
joyed contained orange. grapefruit,
peach, banana, apple cut in straws,
pineapple and white, green, red and
dark blue grapes. A French dressing
was used and maraschino cherries
were used on top.
Suitable Desserts.
If the main dinner has been rather
heavy, have a light dessert, but try to
make it unusually attractive, as it is
the last thing a guest remembers
about the dinner. Gelatin combined
| with ice cream, fruits and nut Gus
tards or brightly colored ices with
small cakes are easily prepared.
Steamed puddings made in fancy
molds, either individual or family size,
may be ornamented with hard sauce
pressed through pastry tube.
To make prune betty, beat the yolks
| of two eggs together with half cup
full of brown sugar or granulated
| sugar if the brown is not to be had,
or two tablespoonfulS of honey if 4
golden brown pudding is desired.
Sprinkle in little nutmeg and CHINA.
| mon. Put pint of milk in the upper
part Of a double boiled, together with
a cupful of brown bread pieces, not
crumbs, and lump of butter. When
hot. pour this into the sweetened and
beaten egg yolks. Stir thoroughly,
pour into a well buttered baking DISH
and bake in a moderate oven for about
20 minutes, or until the pudding bub-
bles iika ascustard. A handful of raj
sins or shredded cocoanut. or a little
OF both, may be added to the hot milk.
and pieces of bread. 1t may be served
either hot or cold with a thin lemon
sauce or abutter-and.sugar dry sauce.
A Shell Luncheon.
The table set for special luncheon
may be laid with doiIies of crepe paper
cut in the shape of shells and their
edges pulled out to give the f1uted ap.
pearance of shells. Such doilies may
be made of pale pink paper with their
edges darkened a little by the use Of
crayons of a deeper shade. A vase Of
flowers used as centerpiece may be
placed on the edges of three paper
shells. Shells surrounding the center.
piece should contain olives and nuts
Small pastel-colored shells should hold
salt and pepper at each plate and
| empty shells of similar coloring should
be scattered over the table to give the
effect OF blown around flower petals
Shells the size of those holding nuts
| may be used as finger bowls. There
are many dishes which can feature the
| shell theme, such as cucumber shells,
green pepper shells, orange or grape
| fruit shells. lobster or crab shells, or
tomato shells. Shell molds can be
bought for shaping jellies or salads.
Ice cream can be so frozen that it
| will resemble a shell.