Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-20
Entertaining Friends
Simple. but Successful Ways in Which They
May Be Provided for in Small Home.
Parties and Other Features.

complished by the use of tea wagon,
together with o breakfast tray and its
portable stand. Even an ordinary card
table may be pressed into service on
this occasion, and If covered with a
square cloth ewill accommodate from
two to four persons comfortably, es-
pecially If the sideboard or side table
is pressed into service. Many hostess
is now serving a Sunday buffet supper
in which the sideboard is used, from
which the guests and family may help
themselves to refreshments.
Washington's Birthday.
For this celebration one can buy
crepe paper decorations in suitable de-
signs and colors in tablecloth and
napkins. place cards, nut cups and tally
cards. There are variouS-shaped cooky
cutters, larger ones for sandwiches, and
tiny ones for candies or waters, and
there are aluminium molds for salad,
dessert or cup cakes.
GarnisheS of flowers for the dinner
table may be used with fruit, meats,
salads, cakes, desserts and beverages.
Flower garnishes, of course, should be
kept in a cool place until needed, and
only be put upon the food, or around
it, just before it is to be served. Dainty
flowers and ferns, half-open blossoms
and buds are the best to use with foods.
Flowers that are especially suitable are
pansieS, forget violets, roses,
pinks and sweet peas.
Ice creams. gelatin desserts and
steamed buildings lend themselves well
to flower decorations. Ice cream may
be served on one large dish surrounded
with flowers and maiden hair fern, or 1t
adorned with flowers stuck into 1t, or 1t
may be served in individual dishes with
only flower topping it. When served
the latter way 1t may be in o crystal
dish or cup which stands on q service
plate, with ferns radiating from the
base of the ice cream dish and partly
covering the plate beneath.
Violet leaves are useful for decora-
tons on platters holding fruits, meats,
salads or desserts. They may be used
on individual fruit plates, peeping out
from beneath an orange. a grapefruit
or a bunch of grapes. When you are
using small mcIds of jelly, fruit baskets
filed with jelly, or lettuce nests filled
with jelly, as a meat garnish, stick
sprig of mint leaves in. This is an ef-
fectiye combination.
For the hostess who wishes to avoid
the expense of cut flowers, there is Win
ter foliage, fern that lends softness
can be used to advantage. Candied vio-
lets, candied rose petals, candied car
nation petals and candied mint leaves
are also In great favor for table use.
An angel food cake can be made pink
and white by mixing little red sugar
with a part of the dough. II should be
used sparingly and threaded through
the cake. When the cake is cut, the
pale pink lines look like pink veins
through the cake. Melted chocolate or
dry cocoa may be used with pink and
white to make cake i'll three colors.
Cherry Cheese.-Mash one package
tablespoonful of cream and one table
spoonful of finely chopped maraschino
cherries. Spread thin on small rounds
of white bread. Cut the top round
smaller than the bottom and cut out
the center of the top with a doughnut
cutter so that the attractive color of the
filling will show.
Cherry Divinity.-Mix four cupfuls of
sugar with one cupful Of boiling water
and one cupful of white corn strip.
Cook until fine hair Is spun when
tested with fork. Pour gradually
over two egg whites beaten stiff, beat
ing all constantly. Continue beating
until it begins to thicken, then add one
cupful OF broken nut meats, one-third
cupful of chopped and drained mara
schino cherries, one teaSpoonful of va
niila or almond fiavoring and one
fourth teaSpoonful of salt. When thick
enough pour into creased pan and
cut into squares, or it may be dropped
from spoon into patties, using knife
to assist.
Patriotic Salads.
This fruit salad, shaped like a star
and topped with a maraschino cherry,
is seasonable. You will need two grape
fruit and four large oranges to make
salad for five persons. Select heavy
fruit and peel with a pairing knife and
remove the white lining of the rind.
Place the peeled fruit on a platter and
hold it with your left hand while you
cut out the sections. Discard all seeds
and lift the sections away from their
membrane. Line salad plates with crisp
lettuce leaves. On each plate arrange
star made with five sections of grape
fruit, with sections of orange between