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Show ; '' l Mary's Kitchen j Perhaps you are planning to "pay back" all your winter social obllga-tlen obllga-tlen on St Patrick's day. It's i do llghmil time for e party. Con. ing In Lent, the festivities must perforce be Informal. Uuncheon. dinner or evening party; u-o green for the color scheme. Light ihe dining table with randies and the uble green bows on each candlestick. White nohdrlp banquet candles Will Insure safety to the most exquisite linen. If a pot of shamrock Is not procurable use a low maiden-halt fern for the centerpiece. These suggestions for an evening party menu may help you. The "eats" are planned to please both men and girls. 1 MI NI FOR I.XIMNG PARTY. Coffee E mit Punch St. Patrick's Sandwiches Green Olives Salted Nuts Shamrock Salad Mint I'arfait Irish Puff Balls FRUIT PI NCR One pound lime fruit tablets -cups boiling water, 2 cups cold tea. 1 small bottle green cherries. .' cups orange juice, 1 quart bottle charged WS ter. Pour boiling watei over fruit tablets tab-lets anel Ic-t stand till cool and lab-lets lab-lets are dissolved. Add tea, herrles and orange Juice Pour over a blocl of Ice and Just before serving add water. This will serve 20 persons sT PATRICK'S SANDWICHES. Green Cheese Filling One bunch paisley, 1-2 bum h watercress, 2 packages Neufchatel cheese 1-2 teaspoon tea-spoon salt. 1-S teaspoon white pepper. pep-per. Wash parsley and dry between lowels Pull the leaves from the stems and. put on D large pie pun. Dry In Hie oven until the leaves are e-nsp and crumbly. Wssh and dry-watercress. dry-watercress. Mince and mix with j crumbled parsley. Work cheese with a fork until soft, add cream or melted melt-ed butter If necessary" Season with salt and pepper and work In parsley and cress. Spread on thin slices of white bread and butter Green Butter One-half cup but- j tor. 1 1-2 tablespoonn mine eel pars-1 ley 1 tablespoon lemon Juice. 1 hard'1 boiled i gg yolk salt and pepper. Beat butter to a cream. Rub yolk of epg through fine sieve Work Into butter. Adel lemon Juice slow iy beating constantly. Beat In parsley j.ilt and pepper and work smooth. If the parsley doe?: not make the butter onll- green enough w oi k ln .' little spinach, cooked and ruhhe I through a sieve This should be made In the morning and lcr-pi on ire till needed. Chopped green olives and mince, celerj make good nandwlch filling Minced watercress and finely chopped whites of hard boiled eggs, seasoned Willi salt and pepper, oil and vinegar Is good on white or brown bread. Minced mint leaves, blanched shred-d'-d almonds nnd lemon Juice- to moisten mois-ten make a toothsome green and white- sandwich. Shamrock salad Is made with green peppers stuffed with cream cheese and nuts The peppers are kept on Ice for several hours and then cut in u un rter-lnch slices and served on a bed of cress with French dressing. Irish puff balls are tiny cakes baked bak-ed In round molds Mix the rule fo.-"Moe-k ngel Food" and bake In tiny spherical muffin pans. 'oer With boiled frosting colored green MOCK W'f.KL FOOD One cup granulated sugar 1 1-41 cups flour. 3 teaspoons baking powder pow-der 1-8 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup milk, 3 eggs (whites) Sift flour and sugar four lime--. Add baking powder and slfl again. Add salt and sift Heat milk to the boiling point. Stir Into dry Ingredients Ingre-dients Add vanilla and fold ln tho whiles of the eggs beaten stiff and dry with a whisk. Drop from teaspoon tea-spoon Into buttered molds and bake 20 minutes In a moderate oven HINT PARI 1T One bunch fresh mint. 1 1-2 cups sugar. 1-2 cup water 2 eggs (whitest 2 cups whipping cream. 1-3 teaspoon ' silt 'rush mint leaves and steep ln boiling boil-ing water 20 minutes. Strain and add wafer to sugar Boll eight mln- I utes. Beit egg whites till stiff and ' dry with two tablespoons cold water. I Heat in sirup and beat till mixture I begins to cool. Whip cream add salt and combine mixtures. Pour into mold, park In Ice and salt and freeze in a dasher-less dasher-less freezer Allow four hours for . i eeilng large as a postage stamp, soon loomed about the sl.e of an orange, then he ; grew as large as a honeydew melon and then like a watermelon. Soon ho showed bigger than a washtub. and I then, all at once, the w ind flew him I safely down Into tho yard, where Nurse Jane and his friends waited for him "Here are vour sheets Mi.s.s FusSjy Wussy," chuckled the bunny, bowing politely and handing them to his housekeeper. 1 Just took thoni for n I little sail." ' Well, I'm glad the wind brought yoi bark with them,' laughed Nurse 'Jane. "1 was quito worried about you." j hut everything came out all right, and If the lead pencil doesn't forget lis ' rubber w hen It goes w ading In the ink well with a piece of paper I'll tell you next about Uncle Wigglly fixing a chair. oo- .A. . & |