The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-07-14
Summertime Suppers

IstNe you ever pSSu NV Ill the
summer time? Do hear you say, "Oh
no." Anyway, | hope you will never
be as hot as was last night, and it
was last night that | was invited out
to dinner.
All day | had thought about that
dinner. One does, you know, always
expect dinner out to be delightful.
Ny hostess, I knew, was good cook
and I anticipated cool ices slipping
down my parched throat, refreshing
salad, as crisp and cool as | was wilt
ed and hot, icy drinks that should
chill the perspiration on my foaming
brow.
The gasping wretched day was
staggering to depart but the cruel
relentless sun though vanished, still
left the earth writhing under its I'M
bearable burning breath. l arrived as
per the invitation, after long ride
and stood at the door florid and
steaming. The hostess greeted me,
also florid and steaming. The apart
ment was cool, but after we had talk
ed awhile, alas.
We sat at the dining room table,
and there was soup, and there was
Pescalloped potatoes with cheese, and
broiled steak and hot rolls. The des-
sert was steamed pudding with hot
coffee in little cups. She was good
cook, the food was piping hot, but so
was the company.
We sat limp as rags. The perspira-
ton ran in beady streams down the
pink foreheads of the men onto their
wilted collars. The ladies looked dizzy
Cat least one felt that way) and pale
and their sheer dresses chung to their
bodies like fly paper.
The conversation languished and
died and everybody with tongues
hanging out sat looking stupidity at
everybody else, in acute misery. I
have heard that starving men always
have visions of all their favorite foods
strawberry shortcake, fried onions,
hot cakes with maple syrup-and so
enmeshed in that languor and apathy,
sat thinking Of all the things I
would like to be eating, but wasn't. If
| We're cook and hostess I planned that
would set before my guest. I have
resolved several things
l. That all the food should come
from the refrigerator, instead of the
stove, and that there should not be
a single hot dish.
2. That the drink should also be
cold, if it We're nothing more than
clear water.
3. That there would be no hot rolls
and that sandwiches which could be
made early and put in the ice box
were better than bread and butter, be-
cause in hot weather butter melts as
soon as it is on the table.
4. That I would prepare every
thing in the morning and put it in the
refrigerator, even to the pie and cake
and the dishes and nothing should go
on the table until the guests had ar
rived and were ready to be seated.
5. That would serve only a few
dishes, but the servings would be
large, large enough to fill even the
most cavernous ebay window
=. That the main dish would prob
ably be a salad.
Here, | think, l reached the end of
my resolutions and began on the menu.
These are some of the ideas which ap-
pealed most strongly in my torpid
state:
Dutch Salad Cold Bran Mullins
Lemonade Fig Cream Pie
Olive Lemon Jell Tuna Fish Salad
; Potato Chips
Cream Puffs filled with Ice Cream
covered with Chocolate Sauce
Iced Coffee
3.
Tongue in Aspic
Olive, Nut, Apricot, Cheese Salad
Ice Cream Sandwich
Jellied Tomato Boullion
Cheese Straws
Grab Louise
Bread and Butter Sandwiches
Ice Cream in Gingerale Macaroons
5.
Macaroni Salad
Nut Bread Sandwiches
i Frozen Fruit Mousse
Brown Fruit Cookies
Menu l intrigued me great deal
but in all Of them, | chose the things
| like best; that's the advantage the