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Show Any Popular Dish Is Im proved When Gra prs A re A dded Name almoat any popular dish-salad, dish-salad, dessert, appetiser, beverage grapes may be used In any. Crapes served aa fruit should ba washed, drained and arranged in a flat dish, either alone or with other fruits. Frosted grapes make a novel centerpiece. cen-terpiece. To prepare them, you dip bunchea of grapes in slightly beaten egg white, sprinkling them with confectioner's sugar and then drying dry-ing and chilling them. Red and green grapes, dipped In melted fondant and dried make a novel confection for the tea table. Grape ice la delicious served with the main course of the meat or as a deasert. To make it, boil, for two minutes, min-utes, one cup of sugar with one and one-half cupa of water. Add one-fourth of a cup of lemon juice and two cupa of grape juice. Pour the mixture into a freezer. When It la half frosen add a beaten egg white and freese the combination very atiff. Grapea also may be mixed with fresh or canned fruits, berries or melons and served aa salad with French or mayonnaise dressing. Larger varieties should be cut into halves with a sharp knife and have their aeeda removed. Smaller, seedless seed-less grapea may ba used whole. Grape Juice may be used with other Juices In cocktails. It may alao be mixed into a wide variety of gelatin and frosen desserts, cakes and cookies, baked, steamed and boiled puddings, aaucea and cake fillings. Grape juice should be stored In bottles and jara that are aealed tightly. It should be kept In a dark, dry place and used up soon after it ia opened, since it is likely to mold or turn sour if it stands. When making grape Jelly., you should use some that are not yet ripe, since there la more pectin that natural jelly-making property found In fruits and berries in the partly ripe grape. One-third unripe grapaa to two-third ripe onea ia a good proportion. To make a clear jelly the juice should be allowed to drip freely ' don't squeeze the jelly bag. The pulp left in the bag may be ' made into conserves. |