Show strawberry DAINTIES several ways ot the delicious fruit now in season strawberries are now almost at the height ot their although tha most delicious berries from adjacent gardens are not yet in the market almost before they arrive the berries have begun to pall upon the appetite and new methods for their use must be devised sas the new york tribune the various surprise dishes in which strawberries are used in disguise under a layer ot the most delicious and veil flavored of cream ia mannsur shells etc are now acceptable one can never weary of the strawberry but the method in which it is put before ua may become wearisome the combination of cream and strawberries cannot be improved upon one delicious way in which to serve the berries is as made into ice cream and in meringue shells these shells are easily made if the cook can be madeko understand what a cool oven really means and at what a beat a meringue should be cooked beat the white of sis eggs and a pinch of salt to a stift froth with an egg whip not a patent beater add by degrees a pound ot powdered sugar when the sugar ia all beaten in make meringue into twelve oval shapes about an inch and a half high dredge them with sugar they should ba dropped on paper and set in a bakin epan in a very cool oven when they will rise very slowly and become firm in thirty five minutes but must not color in the least cool them thirty minutes wet the bottom of the paper on which the meringues spread and they can be easily pulled off from it shape each shall by pressing the soft inside up against the outside which is firm and sugary do this very carefully leaving a thin sheal of the meringue merin guo and plenty of space to fill with ice and whipped cream arany ice dry the meringues in the oven until they are perfectly dry the closet under tho range oven is a good place in halt an hour they ought to bo dry and ready for use though they will keep a week longer to serve them fill halt the shells with strawberry ice cream and the others wih lemon or orange water ice and put them together they are small to hold strawberries and cream but if two shells are balanced apart on a circle of whipped cream they will easily hold a service 0 berries one meringue shell of strawberry brry ice cream and ones cf pistachio pesta chio cream make a pretty and delicious dessert served with white almond cake no housekeeper keeper needs to be reminded that a mould of the best and most delicious vanilla ico cream makes an excellent hiding for a service of strawberries dish the cream in individual moulds scoop out the center of each one and replace it by a cup of well sweetened berries set the moulds after covering them in salt and ice or in a largo covered pail packed in salt and ice and turn them out on low crystal plates when you aro ready to serva them wreathe them with whipped cream |