Show S when you serve a crowd whether its your responsibility to provide unusual eats for the senior skating party or an inexpensive menu for the church supper cooking in quantities does present problems unless you have recipes designed designe d to serve large numbers its safer to make quick breads cakes and cookies according to standard family size recipes doubling them perhaps but no more proportions of ingredients change as recipes become larger and its no simple matter for an amateur to guess at them plan refreshments to suit the season and your guests when equipment is makeshift the help limited and the alf V number to be served is large select foods that are easily prepared and served and foods that wont be hurt by standing for the simplest sort of refreshments after skating or skiing hot spiced tea is ideal clam chowder with toasted crackers makes a hearty satisfying and substantial dish to serve after a sleigh ride in the frosty air spaghetti or macaroni make inexpensive mainstay dishes for a church supper or midwinter meeting of the P T A served with a crisp salad hard rolls and fresh fruit tor for dessert italian spaghetti makes an unusual and easy to serve meal clara clam chowder serves 50 1 quarts carrot chopped idt 1 ya cups onion chopped 3 quarts potato chopped TVs 7 cups celery chopped fine 5 quarts clams 5 quarts water and clam liquor salt and pepper to taste 5 quarts milk iva cups flour cups butter 1 cup parsley 2 tablespoons paprika chop the vegetables in small pieces and place in large kettle chop the clams and add together with the clam liquor water salt and pepper cover and cook about vz hour or until vegetables are tender scald milk make a smooth paste of the flour and water add half of this flour paste to the clam mixture and half to the scalded milk cook each stirring constantly until the mixture thickens combine and add butter parsley and paprika serve very hot reception cakes makes 90 2 inch cakes 2 cups shortening aart p art butter 4 cups sugar 16 egg yolks 9 cups cake flour 8 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups milk f IS tablespoons orange or lemon extract 1 cream the shortening add sugar very slowly beating well after each addition 2 beat egg yolks until very thick and add gradually to the creamed mixture 3 sift dry ingredients together and add to the first mixture alternately with the milk and extract 4 pour batter into jelly roll pans which have been greased and lined with wax paper 5 bake in a moderate oven degrees fahrenheit for 30 minutes remove from pans cool and cut into diamonds diamond italian spaghetti serves 50 1 quarts onions minced 3 cloves garlic minced I 1 cup parsley minced 1 1112 cups olive oil 6 pounds ground meat beef pork and veal ano 6 no cans canned tomatoes ysmall 8 small cans italian tomato paste 3 tablespoons salt I 1 teaspoon pepper 6 pounds spa ghet ti J Z 2 pounds italian cheese grated 1 cook the onions 1 ns garlic and parsley in the olive oil for about 5 minutes 2 add meat and cook until meat is brown 3 combine with tomatoes and tomato paste and simmer for about 2 hours or until the sauce is very thick 4 add salt and pepper just before serving 5 serve on cooked spaghetti and sprinkle generously with grated cheese send for your copy of easy entertaining now it its about time tor for you to entertain your club or sewing circle be needing some suggestions for unusual refreshments find them menus and tested recipes too in this practical guide to entertaining send for your copy now just mail 10 cents in coin to easy entertaining care of eleanor howe N michigan avenue chicago illinois released by western newspaper union |