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Show KITCHEN CUPBOARD By NELLIE MAXWELL Good Things for the Table A DAINTY dessert and one easy to prepare Is always popular with all housewives. Here Is one: Marshmallow Dessert. Cut Into vniall bits a cupful or more of marshmallows, add a handful of blanched and shredded almonds, cover with a cupful of whipped cream and serve in sherbet glasses topped with shredded pineapple. Graham Cracker Date Tart. Itoll twenty-four graham crackers until fine with a rolling pin. Pour over the crumbs four large tablespoou-fills tablespoou-fills of butter melted. Prepare the following custnrd: Mix oue cupful of sugur with one-half cupful of cornstarch, blend well, add a little salt and one quart of rich milk, cook until thick. Bent four egg yolkg until light, add a little of the milk mixture and pour Into the saucepan ; cook until the custard Is thick and smooth. Beat the egg-whites egg-whites until stiff, fold In gradually one-fourth of a cupful of sugar. Cut up one package of dutes Into fine bits. Now prepare a Inyer of the buttered crumbs in a good-sized dripping pan, pour the custard over It, then on the custard sprinkle the chopped dates : cover this with a meringue and over that another layer lay-er of the buttered crumbs. Bake twenty minutes In a moderate oven. Cut Into squares, top with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Use a pancake turner to serve the squares. Fruit Salad. Prepare a bed of shredded lettuce. Plnce a slice of canned pineapple upon it. Fill one-half one-half of a canned pear with diced bananas and celery mixed with mny-onnalse mny-onnalse dressing. Lay on top of the pineapple. Garnish with strips of green pepper. Serve with a french dressing. A potato salad Is one of the easl- est salnds to make and one which Is often the poorest. Potatoes are tasteless when cold and should always al-ways be marinated with a french dressing for two or three hours before be-fore the mayonnaise Is added. ((Sv 1930. Western Newspaper Union.) |