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Show DAINTIES FOR TEA TABLE Appetizing Dishes That Will Bring the Family Expectantly to the Evening Meal. Milk Toast and Cheese. Make some rich milk tonst, mul spread on a flat dish: cover with a thick layer of gritted cheese, and put in the oven till the cheese melts and burns. Servo very hot. Celery Toast. For a small family, clean one moderate-sized stalk of celery, cel-ery, using all the stalk, root and such leaves as are blanched and tender. Cut in small pieces, put over the fire and boil till tender, taking care not to have too much water, so that it may boll down and retain all substance. Add a generous pint of milk, keep over the fire until scalded, then thicken very slightly with flour, lastly adding a piece of butter the size of a hickory-nut. hickory-nut. You will need eight slices of toast, which should be brown and crisp. Rutter these and lay in a deep covered dish. Turn the celery gravy over it and serve immediately. Do not dip the toast in the milk. Date Muffins. One cup of chopped dates; mix two cups of milk and a well-beaten egg; sift together one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, three cups of flour and two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of melted butter; add the milk and egg, and last the dates, and beat hard till light and foamy; bake In buttered gem-tins for about twenty minutes. Scones. Into a quart of flour stir a teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoon-fuls teaspoon-fuls of baking powder. Sift three times, then chop into the mixture a heaping tablespoonful of butter, and when well blended add enough chilled milk to make a soft dough. Handle as little as possible and turn out upon a floured board. Roll quickly and lightly light-ly into a sheet and cut into rounds with a small biscuit or cake cutter. Lay upon a hot soapstone griddle, and when brown turn and brown; split open tearing, not cutting the scones and butter them. Oatmeal Scones. Take a cupful of oatmeal and a cupful of flour and stir well; add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a teaspoonful of salt. Add two eggs, well beaten, and a cup of milk. Stir into a soft dough and drop by the spoonful on a greased tin. Bake in a moderate oven, split open and butter. Serve at once. |
