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Show V J J Ui'S adorned VaaV' Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely, The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty In. Ways of Serving Chicken. Chicken need not be an extravagant dish, as the bits of left-over meat may be worked into croquettes, salads, creamed chicken and numerous other dishes. The bones of the chicken need not be wasted, as they will make soup and broths. Chicken a la Marengo. This is said to be the dish that was served Napoleon Napo-leon after the battle of Marengo. Singe and clean a five-pound chicken, cut it up as for a fricassee. In a saucepan melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and add three tablespoonfuls of olive oil. When it is hot, add the white meat, with salt, pepper and a clove of garlic. Mix and cook over the heat until each piece is a golden brown. Have ready a tomato sauce made from a can of tomatoes, a little onion, parsley, carrot and celery which have been cooked until thick, then rubbed through a sieve, and a tablespoonful of butter added. To the chicken add a pound of fresh mushrooms' mush-rooms' which have been peeled and sauted in a little butter for five minutes. min-utes. Arrange the chicken on a platter plat-ter and add to the gravy three tablespoonfuls ta-blespoonfuls of tomato puree; stir until it is hot. Pour over the chicken and serve. Chicken Giblets on Toast. Cook the giblets until tender over a slow fire, then chop fine; add the broth in which they were cooked, season with salt, pepper and a little onion, add a half cup of hot cream. Pour over buttered toast and serve. Chicken Croauettes. Boil a voung chicken until tender, cut the meat into dice. Saute in butter a half pound of fresh mushrooms, make a cream sauce, using the broth and equal quantity of cream in making the sauce; use three tablespoonfuls of butter and three of flour; cook together, to-gether, then add a cup each of broth and thick cream. Chicken cut up and baked in milk is a new dish to many. Cover the first hour of cooking and remove the cover to brown. Thicken the milk for a gravy and serve poured around the chicken. W Hu has never tasted bitter v does not know what Is sweet. When the good man's from home, the good wife's table is soon spread. i For Washington's Birthday. The red, white and blue of the flag seems to be the appropriate color scheme for Washington Birthday entertainments. en-tertainments. There are so many pretty little things in the shops that may be used for this occasion. Boxes made in the form of drums or cocked hats, which may be used for salted nuts or bon bons. Small flags tied to stand make very pretty decoration; they may be used to hold the place card. Fondant made into balls and dipped Into chocolate make very real-looking cannon balls, and if piled canon-ball fashion add to the appropriately decorated dec-orated table. Cherries are, of course, the fruit most appropriate to the occasion, and may be used in numerous ways for decoration or on food combinations. For a children's party, a nice little surprise cake may be made, using the ordinary sponge cake mixture, ! which is more wholesome than the : rich cup cakes for the little people. Bake them in gem pans, the little I brownie irons are a nice shape. ' When cold, cut off a slice and scoop out the center, fill them with preserved , cherries, put back the slice and cover ! with a boiled frosting or dip them in softened fondant. Pineapple Lemonade. Make a sirup by boiling two cupfuls of sugar and a cup of water tqgether ten minutes, add the juice of( three lemons and one can of grated pineapple. pine-apple. Cool, strain and dilute with one quart of water. A delicious sandwich to serve with this lemonade is cottage cheese, well seasoned with salt and well mixed with chopped candied cherries. French chops may be arranged on a platter to simulate a cannon and potatoes po-tatoes cut into balls and browned in fat may be piled to look like cannon balls. The potatoes should first be parboiled par-boiled until nearly tender, then browned in hot fat Just a Guess, Perhaps. "Where is It that Shakespeare gays, Hope springs eternal In the human breast?' " "In 'Don Juan," I think." |