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Show TASTY DINNER DISHES MAKING AN ELABORATE SPREAD IS SERIOUS ERROR. Select Dishes That Can Be Easily and Quickly Made by Home Cook and ) Rob Dinner Giving of Terrors. Dinner giving that desirable form of entertainment need not be considered consid-ered a difficulty even by a woman who has but one servant If dishes which can be easily and quickly made by the home cook are selected. The idea that to invite more than one person to dinner necessitates an elaborate spread is a serious error, for such an entertainment means previous previ-ous work on the part of the hostess, and if coupled with certainty that the maid cannot serve the meal properly tends to prevent enjoyment and brings a general feeling of relief when thai meal is over. Moreover, unless all details can be executed and are in accord with one's usual way of living an elaborate dinner din-ner becomes ostentatious, than which nothing 1b worse form. The art of entertaining en-tertaining Is to give enjoyment by having persons within one's home, and unless they are made comfortable and at ease the purpose fails completely. com-pletely. A dinner for six or eight persons will fill all the requirements of formal entertaining if the menu consists of soup, an entree or flsh; a roast with vegetables, a salad, followed by a dessert. des-sert. Coffee may be served afterward in the sitting room. Such a menu is not beyond the power pow-er of a simple cook, for soups may be bought ready made, fish or a tempting tempt-ing but not elaborate entree may be prepared previously by the hostess, if a dish that can be warmed over at the required time of serving is chosen. A roast and vegetables should offer no difficulties, and if the cook cannot compass a salad It, like the entree, may be prepared previously by the hostess and put on plates ready for the dressing, which the cook can pour over when wanted. Nothing Is simpler than to buy dessert, des-sert, and coffee any one can make. There Is never any reason, because a woman does her own cooking, that the serving of food shall not be attractive. at-tractive. It takes little if any longer to decorate a dish with a few leaves of parsley or to drop a flower Into each finger bowl, if the housekeeper Is so fortunate as to have a" garden. Pretty dishes cost no more than plain ones, and it is not a waste of time, but refining, to make a dinner or lunch table decorative. |