Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08

! THIS is the story of a woman who
wanted to have very informal
Luncheon for only three guests. Wher
! she was planning her menu she re-
membered that one guests husband
liked all kinds CT pie except pumpkin
and that always gave him indigestion
So, although the wife was very fond
of that particular pie. she rarely had
it. Another guest had a husband who
didn't like any kind of salad head
| lettuce, and she was very fond of del
ectable and fancy fruit salads. The
third guest was ON a bit of diet and
found it hard to eat all the vegetables
the doctor had prescribed.
so the hostess arranged a three
course luncheon with one course made
especially for each guest. Here is the
menu:
Vegetable Soup With Plain and
Toasted Cheese Cracke!s
Fruig Salad With Sherbet Center
Pumpkin TartS Hot Rolls Coffee
Before we take down tn, recipe for
vegetable soup, lct's look for a moment
at the poSsibi. tiles. The best soup has
all sorts of vegetables in it, That means
that there ally ought to be a whole
pot OF soup, which will be much too
mucl fer the luncheon. Maxi enough
Tor the childrs ms luncheon. Then take
what is left of the soup, season it well
with green pepp and onion and have
vegetable Spanish omclet 1t is ex-
cellent for children and grownups alika.
For the soup, use pound of briSket
beef and boil it in plenty of wat for
two or three hours. Remove the meat
cit can be used for hash) and strain
the liquid Now add all the vegetables
you hare in as great quantities as you
nk. sample specimen of vegetables
consi-ts OF l whit turnip ! stalk celery.
l parsnip, l large can tomatoes, / slice
rutabaga, l cup peas, potatoes, cup
canned corn, 3 carrots, l cup cooked
navy beans and onions.
Add the cooked vegetables only an
hour or so bcfor. finished cooking. Cook
the soup s'ow-y for at least two hours
and low the vegetable fiavors to blend
wei. If you like, you may rub a little
butter and flour together and use for
thickening
Now If you are in hurry and haven't
time, inergy or whatnot to make the
soup, you may of course OPP a can or
two of vegetable soup. add milk and
have very pleasant first course.
For each serving of fruit salad with
sherbet use large crisp lettuce leaf
In tn absence of lettuce answering
that description, shred a bit of head
lettuce for a foundation. In the center
OF the pineapple place a cube of apricot
she; bet and on the top half an apricot
upsidedown
Now around the edg, of the pineapple
lay slteInat ng slic~s Of canned peach
and slices of banana about two inches
long and half an inch wide. The
banana is especially nice If rolled in
ground peanuts
Serve dressing separat ly. A good
dress ng for this salad is one made of
two parts whipped cream and one part
mayonnalse. II you make your own
dressing. use lemon instead of vinegar
for fruit salad.
Use frozen appls sauce instead OF
sh rbet if you like.
Unless you have some tiny individual
pie tn, b1tter use muffin tins to MAX
YOUR tartS. The ordinary individual
tin is little large for a luncheon
dessert
VIII n fitting the pie dough into the
muffin tins, take time enough to press
1t neatly close to the sides and bottom
and build up the top in a pre:sy edge.
You will find that your filling win 20
long way. A recipe for the tarts
requires:1 cup canned pumpkin. q
teaspoon cinnamon, y teaspoon ginger
4 teaspoon nutmeg, q cup brown
sugar, l egg and IA cups milk.
Mix ingredients in order given. Use
who'e, SKINNED or eyaporated milk.
Cream mekes lovely rich pie. If you
want that kind. Fill the torts as fun
as you can without letting tn m over
now and piece in an oven that is very
hot for the fist 10 MINUTES. then mod
crate until the tarts are dom. They
are done when the filling has set and
the crust IS brown. rye on lace paper
doils7s. Cover each tart with sweet~nad
whipped cream end sprinkle with
e-ourd peanuts or decorate with a few
pecan halves.
You mcy use variety of filings. of
cnurs If YOU dent want to use pump
Iii. Eutt ':s:ct"h is spl-nd.d. and
lomon sponge rhubsrb fresh berry
all sre fine. A bit of cream filling
IN the bottom, topped with Strawberries
and whipped cream-ah, there is a