Show A PORCH PARTY MENU BY CORNELIA C BEDFORD Through the hot weather the hostess who lives out of ot town and whose house has the advantage of a roomy veranda can well find one or more porch parties a 11 pleasant and comparatively easy meth method method method od of Or entertaining friends or those to whom she Is under un er obligation Tho The porch party part arty should should be markedly informal in its its nature nature both weather and surroundings contributing to make It so Either morning or later in the day may be chosen morning gatherings usually In Indicating Indicating indicating shirt waist costumes and a corresponding cor corresponding corresponding responding lack ck of formality with the simplest sort of ot refreshments Such an nour flour may also Include a sewing boe hoe for lor some pome charitable purpose or a reading and discussion of some som literary character The menu should be selected with due attention to the tho hour and the guests who are ure invited It is usually best to have one hot dish such as 5 creamed chicken and when whon elderly guests are arc included a pot of hot tea Sandwiches are always wel welcome welcome welcome come also salads fruits and und cold cola drinks The rho following menu will bo bl suggestive and recipes are given of o such fuch dishes as may be new nev to our I 1 Creamed Sweetbreads In Paper Cases Shrimp Salad Nasturtium Sandwiches Fancy Fanc Cakes Cokos Cafe Frappe 2 Iced Bouillon Creamed Eggs Eg Finger Rolls Bolls Veal and Cucumber Salad Cheese Sandwiches S Iced Iced Tea Fruit Lemonade 3 Curried Tomatoes Cress CreBS Sandwiches Sweetbread and Pepper Salad Olivo Olive Sandwiches Frozen Fruit Sponge Cakes Fruit Cup Cafe Cate Frappe Make some strong clear coffee using any kind of a drip coffee coffeepot coffeepot pot Set aside and when cold add to each quart one Quart of or cream and und make very sweet with a string sugar syrup Just JUtt before serving stir in one scant ta tablespoon tablespoon tablespoon of ot vanilla and one cupful of o cream whipped to a solid froth Place a large lump of Ice In the tho punch bowl pour in the tho prepared d liquid and serve in nu glasses lasses This mixture may also be frozen en ento to to a mush and served In tall glasses lasses Iced reed Bouillon Wipe and chop fine tine five pounds of lean beef boot no bones Add five quarts of ot cold water let stand In Ice Ico box for on art hour then heat slowly skim and simmer four hours Add four tour onions and two carrots cut ut fine a bunch of soup SOUl greens four cloves a blade of o mace a ado dozen do en peppercorns and two scant tea teaspoonfuls teaspoonfuls teaspoonfuls spoonfuls of ot salt Simmer an hour longer strain and cool When chilled remove all grease and pour pou off of the clear liquid It if cloudy it must be clarified Add dd more salt If Jf needed slightly deepen the color with caramel Serve icy cold adding one ta tablespoonful tablespoonful tai of sherry to each pint Cheese Put one cupful of English walnut meats through the nut grater or chop very fine Mash lash a Philadelphia cream cheese with enough sweet cream to make a paste gradually adding the nuts Season with salt and a adash adash dash of cayenne pepper The mixture should be soft enough to spread easily Fruit Lemonade Mix together one cup ful each of lemon juice and the juice of or any fruit truit In season such as raspberries currants pineapple etc where the flay flav flavors ors blend well weB as currants and raspberries ries two or more fruits may be taken Make agreeably sweet with sugar then measure and add three to four times as much Ice water Serve thoroughly Iced Sugar is made by boiling to together together together gether for five minutes one pint and a half of ot sugar and one oue pint of oC water This keeps well if It bottled and put aside in a n cool place and mixes mim morr readily ren il with lemonade and kindred drinks drink than powdered sugar Curried Tomatoes Scald and skin eight large firm tomatoes then cut fine pure pare and dice two large sour apples chop fin two small white onions Fry the onion ina in ir ira ina a scant tablespoonful of butter buttor when th thi color begins to change add the apple an and 1 cook slowly for five minutes Pour in insufficient insufficIent insufficient sufficient veal or beef bee stock to cover add one teaspoonful of o curry powder one tablespoonful of ot lemon juice or vIn vinegar egar ogar one sweet pepper chopped very fine fini and the tomatoes Heat Beat slowly and when wh n simmering stir in one pint of boiled rice and salt to taste Simmer until the moisture is absorbed Serve in cases made of or hollowed out tomatoes |