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Show DAINTIES FOR TEA TABLE; Appetlxlnu Dishes That Will Bring tho Family Expectantly to the Evening Meal. Milk Toast and Cheese. Make somo rich milk toast, and spread on a flat dish; cover with a thick layor of grated choeso, and put In tho oven till the choeso molts and burns. Servo very hot. Celory Toast. For a small family, clean one modorato-slzed stalk of col. ory, using all tho stalk, root and such leaves as aro blanched and tender. Cut In small ploces, put ovor tho fire and boll till tender, taking caro not to havo too much wator, so that It may boll down and retain all substance. Add a generous pint of milk, koop over tho flro until scalded, then thicken very slightly with flour, lastly adding a ploco of butter tho slzo of a hickory-nut. hickory-nut. You will nood eight slices of toast, which should bo brown and crisp. Butter thoso and lay In a deep covered dish. Turn the celory gravy ovor It and servo Immediately. Do not dip tho toast In tho milk. Date Mufllns. Ono cup of chopped dates; mix two cups of milk and a woll-beaten ogg; sift together ono heaping tenspoonful of baking powder, threo cups of flour and two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of molted buttor; add tho milk and ogg, and last tho dates, and beat hard till light and foamy; bako In buttered gom-tlns for about twenty minutes. Scones. Into a quart of flour stir a teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoon- ruis or baking powder. Sift three times, then chop Into tho mixture a heaping tablespoonrul or buttor, and when well blended add enough chilled milk to make a so dough. Handle as llttlo as posslblo and turn out upon a floured board. Roll quickly and light-ly light-ly Into a sheot and cut Into rounds with a small biscuit or cako cutter. Lay upon a hot soapstono griddle, and when brown turn and brown; split open tearing, not cutting tho scones nnd butter them. Oatmeal Scones. Tako a cupful of oatmeal and a cupful or flour nnd stir well; add two teaspoonruls or baking powder nnd n teaspoonful of salt. Add two eggs, well boaton, and a cup of milk. Stir Into a soft dough and drop by tho spoonful on n greased tin. Bake in a modorato oven, spilt open and buttor. Sorve at onco. |