The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-03
BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE
AP Feature Service Writer

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most an essential OF your spring
entertainment program.
You'll probably have youngsters
Of about one age at your party And
if yours is a party for little tots you
really should make a hunt for East
Ell eggs part of the program You'll
find it will be as well liked as the
refreshments or the favors-and
that means real enjoyment.
All Shapes CoIors and Sizes
Before the party hide as many
kinds, shapes and colors of eggs as
you think of all over the place
upstairs, downstairs, even out in the
garage. You can buy candy eggs,
large and small, and you can get
wooden eggs, too brightly colored,
if you look around in the stores
Besides those, OF course, you1l need
plenty of home-dyed, honest-to-
goodnes eggs, too. Paint funny faces
and scroll designs on them. The
party will go over better. too, if you
let your own children do their share
Of decorating and hiding the eggs.
Then, when your guests are as
sembled, give each one a tarlatan
bag and a score card and let them
set forth. Rate the scoring by colors
Of the eggs or some other simple sys-
i tem-count Is for a gold egg, II for
silver 10 for a red one and SO on
When it's time for refreshments
let the guests sit right on the floor
if they're in the 6-year-old class or
| Whereabouts. For older children, it's
probably better to arrange them at
tables, decorated with your Easter
rabbit, nests, flowers and all the rest
of the holiday trappings
Ducks And Chickens
Now for the actual refreshments:
Dreamed chicken SERVED in chick
en- or duck bread cases with a tiny
fluffy chick on top will delight all
ages OF youngsters. Or cream cheese,
egg and lettuce or peanut butter
sandwiches cut into rabbit, duck Or
chick shapes will go well with hot
cocoa, marshmallow topped
For dessert, orange sherbet and
fancy barnyard and animal cookies
will make a hit.
To the bread cases for creamed
foods, cut ducks Tor chickens) from
2-inch- thick slices of bread. Re
move the centers to form little con-
tainers Toast or serve plain, filled
with any creamed OF buttered food
You can use the same idea for
desert by cutting the figures from
sponge. angel food or layer cake.
( Fill with chilled or frozen sweet.
Another food, distinctly Easterish,
is made by moulding several differ
] ert Favored and colored gelatin
mixtures in egg shells DIETER coll
| lect shells for several days in adj
vance for this purpose). When chill
ed and peeled, the gelatin eggs are
served in a nest of cress or shredded
lettuce and decorated with salad
dressing. Or you can turn gelatin
eggs into desserts by serving them
in nests Of tinted cocoanut or cake
strips and covering them with a
custard sauce.
A Fancy Dessert
For a real fancy dessert bake
cake batter in egg shells set in muf-
fin pans and frost them all over
with icings tinted delicately in East
er hues. Serve them plain or roll
them in cocoanut.
Or lightly frost an angel food or
sponge cake and then decorate it
with Dummies, rabbits and chicks
fashioned from fondant or from gum
drops.
And, last of all, don't forget the
favors. They are vital to a children's
party. A novel homemade favor
is made by filling delicately tinted
egg shells with candy eggs and then
sealing the tops by pasting tissue
paper over the ends. You can even
paint faces on the favors and add
gay toppers and frilly paper coll
ors. Then, of course, you can always
buy unusual little favors.
Here is how to make bunnys
nest with tapioca cream:
] or 2 egg yolks, cups milk, 1-3
cup quick-cooking tapioca, A cup
granulated sugar. Y teaspoon salt,
or 2 egg whites, teaspoon flaw
oring.
MIX egg yolk with small amount of
milk in top of double boiler. Add
tapioca, sugar, salt and remaining
milk. Place over rapidly boiling wat
er, and cook 10 to IL minutes after
water boils again, stirring frequent
". Remove from fire tTapioca viii