Show I 3 0 1 Jt e e I r nn am e 8 I 4 r bw a FN r Frosty Frost Thirst-Quenchers Thirst Are Party Fare See Recipes Below Light Refreshments Looking for an easy way to return your social obligations This is the season for it be be- because because because cause entertain entertain- entertaining ing can be cool 1 simple and still I 9 lovely All food can beI be I point easy and fun to fix because it does not re re- require require re- re require quire standing over a hot stove to have it ready For the simpler type of party rely heavily on cooling thirst quenchers with perhaps a few cookies or small cakes arranged at at- attractively attractively attractively on a platter If the party takes the place of dinner you might have several substantial salads Try serving on the lawn or garden buffet buffet buffet fet style and save strain on house house- keeping You will want to suggest coolness in your table settings Blues and greens are very comfortable and you can relieve the monotony by having flowers in whites pink or yellow whichever goes best with what you have Ive I've picked out some especially good beverages for this season Dont Don't use your supplies of canning sugar for such things as this If U you youcan youcan youcan I can manage to purchase ice cream and sherbet for the drinks do so and save the sugar where its it's most needed Orange Cream V Serves 6 4 egg yolks i j 4 cups orange juice I lax 1 cups cream or rich milk Sugar if desired Beat egg yolks until light add or or- orange orange orange ange juice and blend thoroughly Pour into glasses and stir in cream Sweeten to taste if sugar is need need- ed Serve at once Party Punch Serves 8 to 10 1 cup freshly made tea 1 cup sugar su ar 2 cups water 1 I cup orange juice 1 cup sliced sweetened strawberries r cup lemon juice 1 pint carbonated water Pour hot tea over sugar add Water wa wa- ter Cool Add orange and lemon Juice luice and strawberries Just be be- before before before fore serving add carbonated water If served in punch bowl add thin slices of orange Orange Punch Serves 6 to 8 1 pint orange Ice 4 pints dry ginger ale Crushed ice Maraschino cherries Beat orange ice and ginger ale together Serve in glasses with aid crushed ice and cherries Fruit Lemonade Serves 6 to 8 Vt 1 cups light corn com syrup Serves G 6 Yz s cup water Juice of 2 lemons Juice of 2 oranges 54 34 cup pineapple juice 4 tablespoons cracked ice Lynn Says Easy Sips Next time you have iced tea flavor with honey in in- instead instead instead stead of sugar and serve with lemon and orange wedges Its It's delightful If you have leftover fruit juices coffee or tea make ice cubes with them Then frosty drinks will not have that watery flavor Bits of fruit berries or mint sprigs may also be frozen in ice cubes to tomake tomake tomake make them attractive For a good afternoon pickup try chilled tomato juice with gin gin- ginger ginger ginger ger ale or use apricot nectar with a dash of lemon juice Iced coffee takes on a party touch when topped with meringue and sprinkled with cinnamon J Lynn Chambers' Chambers Refreshment Suggestion Party Punch Assorted Finger Sandwiches Assorted Mints or Small Candies Recipes Given 4 cherries Few slices of banana 1 1 cups ginger ale Boil together syrup and water for 2 minutes Set aside and cool Pour one-half one cup of the cooled syrup into shaker or l large jar add fruit juices and andice andice ice and shake 1 I l 1 Fill glasses about or half full of the mixture and complete with ginger ale remaining syrup slivered cher cher- cherries cherries cherries ries and banana Cookies to go with the cool drinks should be tasty but sugar You'll like both of these suggestions Makes 4 dozen inch 2 cookies i cup shortening Yz cup sugar l cup dark corn com syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg 2 squares chocolate 2 cups flour Yz teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt Vz cup buttermilk or sour milk i cup nuts Cream together sugar and short short- ening Add syrup gradually beat beat- beating beating t ing after each addition Blend in vanilla Add egg and beat until light Add melted chocolate Silt Sift t together all dry ingredients then the n add to creamed mixture alter alter- alternately alternately alternately with buttermilk beating until il smooth after each addition Blend Blen Blendin d in nuts Drop by spoonfuls o on n greased baking sheet Bake in a moderate degree oven One One- half cup cocoa may be used in place e of chocolate Sift Silt with flour soda sod a and salt Almond Jam Bars Makes 2 dozen medium- medium sized bars Yz 14 cup shortening Yz teaspoon almond extract Yz teaspoon vanilla Yz cup corn syrup or honey lYs 14 1 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder Yz 34 teaspoon salt Yz teaspoon cinnamon Yi 1 teaspoon cloves 1 egg cup jam Mix together shortening and ex ex- tracts Add syrup mixing well Silt Sift t together flour baking powder salt cinnamon and cloves Add to short short- shortening shortening t ening and mix until crumbly Beat Bea t in egg mixing well Spread half hall o of f batter on greased shallow pan pa n Spread jam over batter Cover jam ja m with remaining batter Bake in a moderately hot degree oven 25 2530 2530 2 i 30 minutes Cut in bars Heres Here's a light layer cake that's that s lovely for more elaborate parties partie s Spread marshmallow filling in b be in between between e tween and on top then sprinkle with wit h shaved nuts and candied cherries cherries' Swedish Layer Cake 5 S whites of eggs Yz vs teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup sugar V cup cocoa Yz cup flour flours teaspoon Yz s vanilla Beat eggs until foamy add cream of tartar sugar and cocoa and beat heat well very stiff Add vanilla fold in sifted flour and place in 2 shallow buttered pans Bake in a moderate degree oven about 20 minutes A good cookie type of sweet for summertime is this one that is sugar-saving sugar too Melt about 2 cups of semisweet sweet chocolate chips in the top part of a double boiler and then mix in cups wheat flakes Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper and allow to cool Or spread in a greased shallow pan and cut into squares Released by Western Newspaper Union |