Show valentines you eat of course you are his valentine but a dainty arainty dish which announces the tact fact should be appreciated by that life part ner ot of yours samuel once announced in hla his famous diary 1 I am today my cifes valentine and it cost me five pounds but cooking a valentine requires no such taxing ot of your purse nor much of your ingenuity either making the ralle milestones stories the little holidays of life Is a a task allotted by right to the homemaker and a joyful task it may be it if the brain wracking process ol of what to serve and how to make it are already worked out tor for you the cake or salad or other dish you are planning anyway may be easily transformed into a holiday dish by the simple addition of a bit of hearty heart y decoration or by using the valentine colors red and white tor for loving hearts and blushing maidens in the menu it if its a party youre planning for or february edible valentines are especially s ally appropriate if your sol so int interest lies in making glad the childrens day you can find no better way to do it if theres he r a friend whose pat past courtesies you wish to acknowledge or one whose birthday fals falls upon the same day what better way to commemorate it than with a valentine you can eat here are simple recipes for valentine viands I 1 an d some in heart shapes others in t the he tr traditional colors all of 0 them simple and wholesome dishes lace paper valentine salad use chicory or curly endive to represent the white paper lace of an old fashioned valentine on this place an individual salad which has been molded and frozen in a heart shaped mould run mayonnaise through a pastry tube in the shape of an arrow on top the salad L heart the salad Is made as follows ino 1 no 2 can grapefruit acup 1 cup canned apricots i pasteurized dates sliced 23 2 3 cup mayonnaise I 1 cup heavy cream 1 4 cup diced dicea celery drain canned fruits from syrup cu cut t in small pieces and combine with celery whip cheam and add it t to 0 mayonnaise add crea cream ni and mayonnaise to fruits pack in tra trays Y a of a mechanical tor or in lightly covered molds in a ma marri aro of ice 1 A I s sit t ri in 1 r three fourths of an hour Un mould yield ii 11 1 2 quarts or 1214 12 14 servings queen Olle arts taits tails 1 recipe pie caust in tart shel s 34 cup sugar 2 cornstarch I 1 2 begs yolks itsu 1 asp tsp vanilla 2 cups scalded milk 12 to I 1 cup preserved strawberries 1 cup cream I 1 mix dry ingredients add eggs slightly beaten and pour on gradually the scalded milk cook fifteen minutes in double bellec stirring constantly until thickened afterward occasionally cool and flavor pour into tart shells arrange preserved strawberries oil on top and cover with 1 whipped hipped cream garnish with a berry or candy heart meringue made from egg whites beaten with one third cup powdered sugar kiy be used rink pink pudding 4 cornstarch 3 2 cups milk 13 1 3 cup sugar I 1 tsp asp vanilla I 1 cup pink cocoanut coco anut tro fro 2 egg whites 34 tsp asp salt baix MIX cornstarch to smooth paste with one halt half cup milk scald rest of milk add sugar salt and cornstarch stirring constantly cover and cook in top of double boiler or twenty minutes until thick and smooth remove and fold in two egg whites and trost frost ettes chill find end serve very cold topped with whipped cream and sprinkle wilh tro fro cupids cupida cookies 3 eggs 1 cup corn oil lt 1 cups brown sugar I 1 cup clup white sugar Is taps salt 3 cups pastry flour 3 taps baking powder candied cherries beat eggs slightly and stir in oil add sugar gar sift together and add rest of dry ingredients roll dough thin and cut into heart shapes with cookie cutter clatter bake on cookie sheet in moderate evoi 1115 deg F eight to ten minutes place a candled candied cherry on each cookie just before taking from oven the cookies may be glazed with white ot of an egg and I 1 sprinkled with colored sugar the tiny candy ifandy hearts which may be bought at i any grocery make clever decorations for valentine dishes for the party menu hearts cut from the canned cranberry sauce are appropriate |