The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-22

Jack-O-Lantern Salad
Drain the juice from canned
peach halves. Arrange shredded
lettuce on salad plates and in the
center of each place a spoonful of
fruit salad miXture-a combination
of chopped pineapple, dates, celery
and nuts, mixed with mayonnaiSe.
Invert a peach half over each spoon
full of this mixture, the rounded
side of the peach uppermoSt. On
the peach make a jack-o-lantern
face, small 9aisins for the eyes, a
Glove for the nose, and chopped
almonds for teeth.
Witches Bonfire
Have ice cream frozen hard.
Shape with cone shaped ice cream
scoop. Quickly roll the cones in
chopped nuts and place on a dessert
dish. In the top of each, insert a
small birthday cake candle holder,
orange In color, containing one of
the very small candles. Pour around
each conical shaped ice cream, a
sauce, made from cooking together
for ten minutes maple syrup, stick
cinnamon, and few chopped
raisins. Light the candles when the
dessert is served. If this is handled
quickly, it is very effective 1t is pos
sible to omit the candle holders, and
merely stick the tiny candles in the
top of the Ice cream. They are blown
out as soon as every one has seen
them any way, and little if any
paraffin will run down on the ice
cream.
Halloween Cakes
Prepare a sponge cake batter.
Bake in sheet or small cake pans.
Frost with frosting tinted orange.
When frosting hardens, use melted
chocolate and paint on Jack-o-
antern faces, cats, or witches, with
a small brush. If the cake is baked
in a sheet, 1t will, of course, be
necessary to cut 1t in squares after
frosting it.
Dream Cakes
Crate or mash cheese. Season
with bit of prepared mustard and
salt and paprika. Spread on slices
of bread. Top with another slice,
and toast on both sides until cheese
is softened and bread Drowned. Serve
hot. For best result, if the party is
not too large, make the dream cakes
at the table with the aid of an cleo
trio toaster or grill. Cut the bread
in fancy shapes.
Halloween Salad
Select rosy red apples, cut slice
from top and scoop out insides,
leaving shell about one-half inch
thick. Fill with a Waldorf salad
chopped apples, celery and nuts
mixed with mayonnaise. Replace
tops, so apples appear whole. Serve
on lettuce leaves. If desired, a face
may be carved in the apple shell.
If this is done, paint the cut surface
with lemon juice to prevent its
turning dark.
Baked Bean Sandwiches
Mash the baked beans, canned or
home baked, and mix with chopped
sweet pickles and a little finely
minced onion. Spread between
spices of buttered brown bread.
Soup la Goldenrod
Make d good cream of celery soup.
Just before serving sprinkle over
the top of each soup either grated
raw carrots or grated egg yolk.
Fried Chicken With .Apricots
Fry the chicken according to your
favorite recipe until it is an appe-
tizing golden brown. Garnish the
edge of the serving platter with
canned apricote, drained from their
juice, serving one with each serving
Of chicken. The brown of the
chicken and the gold of the april
cots make very seaSonable and
attractive color note for the meal,
and the apricots themselves lend a
pleasant relish to the meal.
Macedonia Salad
This salad is made from any COM
bination of cooked and raw vege-
tables. dressed with French dress
ing. Carrots should predominant in
it on this occasion, because of their
color. They may be cooked, cut in
thin strips, and combined with the
other vegetables, or grated, raw,
and Sprinkled over the top of the
salad and through it.
Witches, black cats, ETC., cut from
black paper and mounted on tooth
picks should be stuck in the ice
cream and pumpkin pies.
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