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Show 0 Household News Some Ideas for a Party Shur-r-re an' in the mer'ry month o Mar-rch, it's St. Patrick's day we're thlnkin' of when we pass along these ideas for a party. Parties seem to move along more smoothly after a bit of fun and fun it is to find an Irish Paddy's Pig at your place at ( Jr the table! Small ' Jf Irish potatoes, ( K V scrubbed until VjQ ' j they shine, make YTv the fat bodies of the pigs. For the Are "left-overs" a problem In your household? They needn't bel There are clever, unusual ways of using them. Next week Eleanor Howe will give you some of her own favorite recipes and suggestions for using odds and ends of vegetables and meats, and even a hint or two for using stale cake and pie. add a few quartered marshmallows and fold until melted. This dressing dress-ing will be sweeter and fluffier than the original and is perfectly delight- head, fasten a large round gum drop to one end of each potato, with a toothpick.. Make the snout from a small gum drop pinched to the proper shape, and fasten it to the head with a toothpick. Insert whole cloves for "facial features." Cut ears and a curly tail from Jelly strings and fasten these in position with toothpicks too. Small gum drops, fastened to the body with toothpicks, make the legs. Nut cups which look like Paddy's clay pipe, can be made from marsh-mallows, marsh-mallows, green cellophane soda straws, and a bit of green ribbon. With a pair of sharp-pointed scissors, scis-sors, hollow out the center of the marshmallow slightly, to form the bowl of the pipe. Tie a green ribbon rib-bon (with a jaunty bow) around the pipe bowl, and insert a cellophane soda sipper low in one side, for the stem. These two party menus are ful to keep on hand for fruit salads of all kinds. Angel Food Snowballs. (Makes 16) Vi cup milk 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup sugar 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder Va teaspoon salt 4 egg whites Vi teaspoon cream of tartar 1 teaspoon vanilla Heat milk and butter to scalding point. Add sugar and dissolve. Sift flour, baking powder pow-der and salt, and 4 combine with the r rx i milk and sugar aV mixture. Beat tVT well. Beat egg w ? whites until A - - ' frothy, add WlA cream of tartar, (ya j n .mill U TV I , J-J egg whites stand y J up in points. Fold into the batter and add vanilla. Pour into greased muffin pans and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for about 20 minutes. St. Patrick's Lime Pie. (Serves 6) 4 eggs (separated) cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour V cup lime juice Pastry cut in shamrock shapes and baked Rind of one lime (grated) Green vegetable coloring Vi teaspoon salt 1 baked pie shell Beat the egg yolks until thick and light-colored. Mix Vi cup of the sugar and the flour, add lime juice and grated rind, and combine with the egg yolks. Cook until thick, over very low heat, stirring constantly. constant-ly. Cool. Add just enough green coloring to tint the filling slightly. Add salt to egg whites and beat until stiff; gradually add the remaining Vi cup of sugar, and beat until very stiff. Fold into the yolk mixture and pour into baked pie shell. Place pastry shamrocks on top. Bake in a moderately hot oven (415 decrees) planned for St. Patrick's day. You'll find other suggestions for parties of every kind, in my cook book, "Easy Entertaining." Menu I Chicken Salad In Lettuce Cups Hot Cloverleaf Rolls Potato Chips St. Patrick's Lime Pie Beverage Menu II Shamrock Salad St. Pat's Hats Small Sweet Pickles Angel Food Snowballs Beverage Green and White Mints Salted Nuts Refrigerator Cloverleaf Rolls. (Makes 3 doz.) 2 cups water (boiling) V cup and 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon salt 6 tablespoons shortening (part butter for flavor) 2 cakes yeast Vi cup water (lukewarm) 2 eggs (beaten) 8 cups flour Mix together the boiling water, cup sugar, the salt, and shortening. shorten-ing. Cool slightly. Dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in the lukewarm luke-warm water, and add to the first mixture. Add eggs and half of the flour. Beat well. Add remaining flour and mix thoroughly. Place dough in greased bowl, grease the top lightly and cover the bowL Store in refrigerator. Before using, let the dough stand at room temperature to warm up, before shaping the rolls. To shape cloverleaf clover-leaf rolls, brush very small balls of the dough with melted butter and place three balls in each section of a greased muffin pan. Let rise until light and bake in a moderately hot oven (400 degrees) for about 20 minutes. Cooked Mayonnaise Dressing. 2 tablespoons vinegar 2 eggs (beaten) 1 cup salad oil V teaspoon dry mustard Vi teaspoon paprika Vi teaspoon salt Add vinegar gradually to the beaten beat-en eggs, and continue beating until blended. -Cook in a double boiler, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens. Remove from flame and cool. Then slowly add the oil, beating beat-ing constantly. Combine seasonings and fold into the dressing. Fruit Salad Dressing. While making your favorite boiled salad dressing recipe you'll undoubtedly undoubt-edly want to reserve half of the dressing "as is" for use on vegetable vege-table salads. However, to the remaining re-maining naif which should be hot J for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the filling is set. Coo? St. Fat's 'nats. Using a large round slice of bread (buttered) for a brim, build up a hat crown with a layer each of tunafish salad Cr and sliced tema-jj-r-- to, placed be-' IT;' -5-' j tween 3 smaller "wSn? -jifN bread circles, -ge Stick a toothpick down through center. Spread entire sandwich with green-tinted cream cheese. Add green pepper hat band. Chill. Serve on shredded shred-ded lettuce. . This Cook Book Is a Hostess' Handbook! If entertaining has been a problem rather than a pleasure, let Eleanor Howe's booklet, "Easy Entertaining," Entertain-ing," help you. In it she gives you party menus and recipes for almost every holiday occasion. She gives you, too, pointers on how to enjoy your parties with your guests. To get your copy of this clever cook book now, send 10 cents in coin to: "Easy Entertaining," care of Eleanor Elea-nor Howe, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. (Released bv Western Newspaper Union.) |