Evening star., 1937-07-02

IN tins; the potato salad also in tins;
the red hot" potato chips in bags Of
cellulose fllm; the timed tomatoes
packed in 14inch slices all ready to
lay on lettuce leaves for cool salad;
the fruit nectars in cans-among the
new ones, pear, peach and apple
Julce-and so on and SO on. Cakes,
candies, breads, pies-and all the be-
Wlldering variety of spreads Corn
to be taken along to roast, if campfire
cookery is your dish, and, at the fish
markets, big juicy clans for clam
bake. English mullins, to be split and
toasted over the Goals, drenched with
butter, and topped with a pat of
hamburger or thin slice of crisp
ham spread with mustard. And
watermelon cold and luscious, to be
cut up, and eaten in great wedges,
Southern style!
well to remember some of these
same items for use in making the
week end little easier for the mem
Der of the family who must spend
most Of the time in the kitchen. The
markets also offer hams and chickens
especially for the holiday, and with
the blythe piece" purchase plan for
poultry every one may have the part
of the fried chicken that he or she
likes the best! In the vegetable line
okra seems to be an excellent buy, to-
gether with peas, string beans, new
limas and fresh, tender spinach. Green
June apples are in, for pies and apple
sauce; raspberries are selling by the
quart box, blackberries are still good,
and am told that shipment of free
stone peaches will be with us by today
or tomorrow. Apricots, currants and
cherries, both sweet and sour, continue
to be of exceptionally high quality.
And don't forget flsh-if you pack
your purchase well in ice 1t should
keep perfectly over the week end In
Massachusetts the traditional Fourth
of July dinner featured boiled salmon
with egg sauce and the first green peas
of the season. With our year-around
supply Of fresh vegetables nowadays,
that seems almost incredible-and yet
was the case up to a very few years
ago! Strawberry ice cream from the
first Strawberries was the gala dessert |
So if you want to hark back to an old |
tried and true custom, you might in
corporate these three in your holiday |
dinner!
I'M NOT going to give you any hard |
and fast menu this Meek--it is |
really too complicated, for every one
will be doing something different, |
and the menu probably wouldn't fit |
anywhere! So the ideas will just have !
to be general ones, which might help |
here and there with that battling prob
lem of food.
AS for table decorations on the
festive occasion-Why not have a
shallow bowl heaped with big, red |
cherries? Border the edge Of the dish |
with white carnations and blue corn
flowers, then thrust the flowers, al
ternating the blue and the white into
the mound of cherries, to form a
striped design. The advantage of this
is that the cherries may
be eaten later
II you really want to go patriotic
in big way, the stores are of course,
full of tablecloths, napkins, favors,
etc, stressing the red, white and blue
motif, Even your picnic paper equip
ment may follow the same trend.
And If you possess red glass, or blue.
use 1t with white cloth or mats-and |
supply the missing color with paper
napkins, or in tiny bouquets of flow
ers tied with red, white and blue
ribbon. Little flags also may be ar
ranged charmingly to I'LL out the
table decoration.
So-here's to your holiday