Show It's the In a great many to draw the season to a graceful close with a charming spring If you're chairman of the refreshment committee for that delightful social function of your why not plan to make the Time of the theme song for your Use roses there and everywhere a rose-pink damask cloth with rose sprigged a great bowl of real f or e J J and cattle yr Y J I d rose Petals to decorate the tiny When you plan the allow at least three sandwiches and two little cakes for each guest and a pound of mints or salted nuts for each 25 If the tea is a large you'll need two platters of two of cakes and one dish each of mints and on the table at one and make sure that for each platter on the table there's at least one full one In the kitchen to take its Choose an interesting variety of dainty sandwiches for your Oblong brown bread sandwiches with cream cheese and marmalade are and combine effectively with round white bread with a blend of tuna fish and mayonnaise between Very dainty slices of an unusual bread are excellent for plain bread and butter An assortment of dark and light and very small cakes provide the sweet touch for your And tea you must of when properly is one of the most invigorating drinks you can It is most especially when making tea for a to measure the amount of tea used and to brew it Just long enough and not too long in order to insure its best fragrance and to five minutes is generally conceded to be just about right brewing Bishop's 1 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cups flour Yz teaspoons baking powder Y teaspoon salt 2 cups nut meats 1 cup dates 1 cup Maraschino cherries pound sweet or semi-sweet chocolate Beat eggs until and add the beating just enough to Sift baking powder and salt and add the cherries and chocolate which has been broken into pieces about the size of a five-cent Add to the first and mix just enough to blend the Grease a bread loaf pan thoroughly and line the bottom with wax Grease paper and pour in the Bake in a moderately slow oven for about Cool and slice very Butter 30 small Vt cup butter 3 tablespoons superfine powdered sugar 1 cup Hour 1 cup nut meals Cream add powdered sugar and blend Add flour slowly and mix Fold in nut Shape Into small crescent shaped rolls about the size of a small Place on greased baking sheet and bake In a moderate oven for approximately 20 Roll in powdered sugar while Little Swedish Tea 1 cup butter Yz cup sugar 1 egg 2 cups cake flour V teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream butter and add sugar Cream Add well-beaten egg and Sift flour once before measuring and then sift again with Add and blend in flavor- I Origins of Cattle Brands Probably most of the stories about the origins of the cattle brands registered in the West are One such outstanding still told and published as a true is that Burk Burnett adopted the famous brand in 1900 because he won his great Texas ranch in a poker game with a hand containing four Place a rounded teaspoonful of batter In very small greased muffin tins IVi Inches In Press batter up sides and over bottom so that there Is a hollow In the Fill this hollow with an almond filling 1 Almond 2 eggs Yz cup sugar teaspoon salt Yz pound finely ground almonds Beat eggs until very light and add salt and ground almonds which have been put through food chopper Bake 30 minutes in a slow moderate oven Black Walnut 1 1 cup milk 1 cup sugar 1 cup black walnuts 3 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder Combine sugar and Sift flour and baking powder and blend with the first Pour batter Into greased bread Bake in a moderate oven for CO to 70 Dream IVi cups flour 1 cups brown sugar Vt cup butter Vt teaspoon baking powder 2 eggs Vt teaspoon vanilla extract Yi cup coconut Mix 1 cup flour with 2 tablespoons brown Cut In Pat into greased square minutes in a mod- v erale oven V powder to remaining Y cup flour anc suk Beat eggs and add the remaining Vh cups brown beating Then add the flour and the vanilla extract Spread this mixture over the partially baked butter and flour Sprinkle with coconut return to and continue baking approximately 25 minutes English Currant 2 cups bread flour 2 teaspoons baking powder teaspoon nutmeg Yz teaspoon salt Yz cup sugar 2 tablespoons butter cup currants Yz cup pecans or other meats 1 egg Yz cup milk 1 teaspoon orange rind 1 teaspoon orange juice Sift all dry ingredients Cut In Add currants and nut Combine egg and milk and add to first Add orange juice and Mix Place in loaf Bake in moderately hot oven 40 to 45 Strawberry Jam 2 cups general purpose flour k teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder cup shortening Vi cup milk Strawberry preserves Sift all dry ingredients and blend in Add liquid and knead lightly for a few Form small biscuits with finger tips as for yeast dough Make small indentation with spoon and put 1 teaspoon strawberry preserves in each Stretch dough over opening and place In greased muffin Bake in hot oven until Serve ho like On the Refreshment Let Eleanor Howe's cook help you plan your In this inexpensive cook book you'll find a wealth of suggestions for making your parties a success tested recipes that arc unusual and menus for almost every social and general hints for the Get your copy of this cook book Just send 10 cents in coin to care Eleanor North Michigan by Western Newspaper |