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Show . Recipes of Tasty Holiday Dishes for the Festivities of MdWieter Table Decorations Suitable for Intimate Affairs to be Given Throughout January Elowers, Fruit or Favors How to Serve Frosty Effects Suggestions for : ' Twelfth Night Parties Game Still in Season for a Few Days vldual piece. Iust with salt and pepper, pep-per, and Fpread half of the pieces with nofi mashed potatoe peanoncd with sail, pepper, parsley ami onion Juice. Put th uncovered pleccH onto the potato, making a sendwlch of each two pieces, fasten together with wooden, skewers. crc and crumb them and fry In hot fat. Remove skewers as you put them on hut plates and serve with a spoonful of cauce tartare on each sandwlsh. Roaet Duck. Thin Is delicious stuffed with mashed potatoes seasoned with sage, onion and minced sweet red peppers or plmtntoea. Turkey with Bearnalse Sauce. As a piece do reliance I would recommend rec-ommend this: Fillets from the breast of turkey that has been boiled or. lng it in the following manner, as It is much leFS dry than when the usual method 13 used: Grapefruit Cocktail. For tlx person, mix eight table-Bpoona table-Bpoona of grapefruit Juice with two of sugar syrup, add two tablespoons of maraschino If liked. Add a few tiny pieces of the pulp and pour tho whole Into pmall glasses filled with cracked Ice. Thl should tie drunk from the glass and not eaten with the flpoon. Pineapple in Grapefruit Shells. Fhred one pineapple very fine and mix It with the carpels of three grape-frult grape-frult and with enough sugar syrup to suit the taste. It should not be very sweet, however. Scoop out the halves of the grapefruit, cut the edges In points and fill with the- fruit mixture. Decorate with stars of angelica, which is made soft enough ty rut by poaklng It In a lemon pyrup. Tho grapefruit pulp phould be left in as largo pieces as poKBible, os It Is easily cut with the teaspoon with which tho mixture Is oaten. If one desires, a green Jelly may bo used Instead of the angelica. Oreen mint Jelly may be cut with a potato ball cutter Into tiny balls and placed on the fruit the last moment before j . fWMK - NEW TEAR'S PAY furnishes an excellent excuse. 1 one bo needed, need-ed, for those who like to entertain, enter-tain, while Twelfth Night, commonly com-monly called "Little Christmas," which falls on January 6, provides another opportunity op-portunity for the hospitable hoatess. A luncheon or a dinner Is the most fitting fit-ting function for New Year's Day unless un-less ono holds a private reception, and the. especially appropriate entertainment entertain-ment for Twelfth Night Is a supper, because of Its Informality and latitude In frolic and fun. Decorations for the New Year affair, or. for that matter, any day In January, Janu-ary, should be flowers, fruit and favors In (eason. There la nothing more beautiful beau-tiful than a low gilt basket tilled with polnsettlas, but one must remember to cut tho stems as soon as they ome from the florists, or they will wither before tho east be over. By tho end of January tbes beautiful flowers are pone, so they should be used as long as ft Is posslblo to secure them. Another pretty table decoration, and one much iised this year, Is a winter scene. A frozen pond can be mado by using a large oval or oblong mirror and frosting frost-ing It over with a spongo dipped In a oath of cpsom salts and beer; as much f the salts as the beer will take up In Iolutlon. The edgo of tho mirror may e concealed by evergreens, diamond dusted, and If ono wishes to go so far polar bears, seals and perhaps Ksklmos from the toy store may bo placed n tho frozen lake and snowy banks. Of course, with this there should bo favors and place cards to match the winter Bcene. The tee cream may bo a biscuit tortonl packed in small pasteboard or psper slds; any handy boy can make theso sleds, although they, too, can be found In the shops. For the Twelfth Night decoration there should be a star of red flowers In tho centre of the table. Tho star foundation ooujd be mado of tin with turncd-up edges, so tbut It would hold water, or wet ino-s, which Is far belter. The flowers could be scarlet geraniums If procurable, or ivd Immortelles. A pretty candle decoration for the January supper table Is an arrangement arrange-ment of ordinary sized red candles in glass, silver or brass candlesticks surrounded sur-rounded by a circle of small red candles, This arrangement Is obtained by making mak-ing for each candlestick a cardboard filsk from Ave to six inches In dlam-Her, dlam-Her, to bo used In tho place of tho ordinary or-dinary socket. Thero should bo a hole In the centra for tho largo candle and tiny Christmas tree candle holders around the edge, bIx or eight of them for tho small candles. These rounds tnay bo covered with red paper or with treen, and dusted with mica. If the latter, a number of glass Icicles of different dif-ferent lengths could be fastened to tho edges. Among tho flowers suitable for tho January function we find roses, carnations carna-tions and a hothouse variety of bachelor bach-elor buttons called Centaurea. These ore in white, pink or lavender, and are a little less ordinary than the roses and carnations. Much of the food for thews January affairs Is undoubtedly expensive, but the wb hostess will select from the following suggestions only thoso that are seasonable and possible In her locality. lo-cality. It Is usually the forced products prod-ucts or Uie Inaccessible that are an extravagance. ex-travagance. I'ndoubtedly the January hostess will uso 6ume as long ns hhc can get It, for although the season closes January first, all dealers are allowed al-lowed ten or fifteen days to sell that which they have on hand. As long as It Is poslble to Becure partridge, grouse rr prairie chicken I would advise cook- .-if.' "" l ' ''. ' 2. New York Sandwich. 4. Escalloped Oysters with Egg and Red Peppers. 3. Near Puff Paste Entree. serving. This fhould be eaten with a spoon. Cocoanut Soup. Grato the meat of a fresh cocoanut or use one cup of dried cocoanut. steamed, and the sugar washed out of 1L Cook one tablespoon of onion with one of butter, add one tablespoon of flour and one teaspoon of curry powder. pow-der. Now udd one quart of milk and water, half of each, and the cocoanut. Simmer a few moments, add salt and pepper to taste and ono cup of cooked green peas. Peanut Puree. Cook one quart of milk with one cup of peanut butter or pounded peanuts, add u piece of bay leaf, ono teaspoon of celery seed, one of onion Juke, one-half teuspoon f salt and one-quarter teaspoon tea-spoon of pnprlka. When this Is soft and toiling add It to two tablespoons of cornstarch or orrowroot wet In one cup of cold milk. Arrowroot Is the more delicate of the two. Cook ten or fifteen minutes and serve with a. teaspoon of whipped cream on each plate. Tho crtum should be slightly salted and filled with minced parsley, If the flavor of parsley is UkecL Makeshift Lobster Newburg. This Is suggested for those who like a Newburg but object to tho sherry. It 1 really good. Cook two tablespoons of butter with one of flour, add two cooked and mashed egg yolks, one-half teaspoon each of mustard and salt and ono quarter teaspoon of paprika or a dash of cayenne. Now add one cup of thin cream, two tups of lobster meat and tho cooked egg whites cut In dice. When boiling again add two raw yolks, slightly beaten and two tablespoons of tarragon vinegar. This should be served In ramekin dlphes, tlmbale cases or bread croustades. Fish Sandwiches with Sauce Tartare. Cut any firm white fish Into very thin slices. This can be done by the market man. Cut It again Into uniform lndl- steamed, or the remains of a roasted bird. If not too dry, can be egged, crumbed and sauted In butter until a delicate brown, then served with a spoonful of bearnalse sauce on each piece. A few frh mushrooms also sauted In butter add flavor to the dish. Home-Made Bathtub for Baby. A GOOD substitute for the expensive rubber bathtubs for Infants may be made from a yard of rubber sheeting sheet-ing and a clothes-basket. Saw off the handles from basket, take the yard of heavy rubber sheeting and cover over the lop, making a depression In the middle. Use a rope and a staple to fasten It to the outside of tho basket. In this Improvised bathtub the smallest Infant may be bathed without danger of slipping. The cost of manufactured tubs of this kind Is far beyond tho means of ordinary people. Twice Cooking. Although this term Is not used now, the process Is nevertheless largely practiced. Very tough meat and some fish, also some Kinds of game, are said to become Improved In flavor by twice cooking, with an interval of one day. Indeed, when cooking Is performed on a large scale, most of the dishes served are In a luanuer twice cooked. Wo have two eximples to quote, viz.: Biscuit Bis-cuit and toast, where this method Is employed. The biscuit Is perhaps tho oldest example, for "bis" means twice, and "cult" means baked or cooked, although al-though thh word Is now but seldom used ia tho literal 6enso. Toast, however, how-ever, serves as a good example of twice cooking; so do pulled bread and rusks. In these articles the change to dextrine Is more complete than In once baked bread or biscuits, and therefore the food becomes more soluble. saltrpoon of cloves and a tablespoon of line flour. Now stir one and one-third one-third cups of powdered sugar and the yolks of a dozen eggs very foamy, using four yolks to begin with and then adding add-ing them one, by one, stirring a few minutes after every yolk. Mix In lightly light-ly all your Ingredients and then the stiff froth of the dozen eggs. Have your baking pan of heavy tin. well-buttered well-buttered and sprinkled with fine bread crumbs. Bako In a moderate oven for three-quarters of an hour; in case it browns too soon cover with paper. German Cookies. (For the Sweet Tooth.) Mix one and one-third cups of powdered pow-dered sugar, two and two-thirds cups of almonds grated, four tablespoons of flno sifted flour, the finely grated rind of a lemon, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one saltspoon of cloves and tho stiff froth of tho whites of three large or four small eggs. Place on a sugared baking board, roll out to three-sixteenths Inch |