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Show SPRING RELISHES Springtime appetites should be as fresh and unspoiled as is the spring itself. Hut too often the spring ap petite is dulled, and it is only by dint of constant care the housekeeper or cook is able to provide a tempting diet on the spring table. Winter fare palls In March And the usual winter condiments and ap petizers fail to work successfuIlN Mustard pickles chow-chow, cold slaw, olives all have lost their win tcr trick of whetting the appetite Celery baa literally lost most of lis crispness and sweetness by spring New appetizers and relisnes must be relied on to give point to the dailv diet. Cucumbers arc one reliable spring relish There is of courre. mu h objection ob-jection to cucumbers on the ground of radigestibllity, The are usually in dieestible that nobody can deny Bu Oine people do not find them so and eat them without fear. So If thev are not taboo on your table, make use I of them It is a good plan to slice i them thinly and place lhe.ni In iced water In the refrigerator for an hour i before using them. Then dress them with oil and vinegar and serve them llh fish Or dice grepn pepper and I celery, with maonnaise. in cups of lettuce eaes as a salad Tomatoes, too can be made to sre admirably the pnrpose of whetting whet-ting the appetite. v very good appetizer appe-tizer with which to begin dinner Is a round of firm tomato half an Incn thick, on which is placed a teapoon-fit) teapoon-fit) of chopped green pepper, celery or cucumber, mixed with mayonnaise dressing Sliced tomatoes iced in the refrigerator, are another good dinner accompaniment They may be served with fish or with the meat course. And. of course, all sorts of tomato saJads are delicious in spring And a good sherbet for dinner can be made of equal parts of strained tomato to-mato Juice and meat stock, to which a little softened gelatine has been added, frozen In an ice cream freezer to sherbet consistency. Radishes should always be served very cold Clean them and chill them thoroughly In feed water and then cut In attractive shapes Make roses sometimes by cutting back the red skin in points Again slash the radishes from the pointed end down three or four time Slice radishes and serve with other vegetables on lettuce leaves for salad. Sweet green peppers are as useful In warm weather as in cold. Chop them and mix with an equal amount of celery, chopped fine and moisten with mayonnaise Servo a spoonful on a lettuce leaf for salad, or serTe a spoonful on a slice of thin, crisp toast in the form of a canape for an appetizing beginning to dinner Stuff a pepper, one end of which has been removed, with cream cheese and chopped chop-ped nuts, and slice to serve with salad. |