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ornamental purposes. Eggs are turned blue and made to look as if bad by too long boiling; when they are fairly hardboiled put them immediately in cold water and there will be no discoloration. 859— Art in Mincing Parsley. Chop parsley very fine, inclose it in a clean towel and wring by twisting it until all the juice is expressed. The parsley IS then a green dust which when scattered upon a dish will not fall all in one spot but will divide as easily as grains of colored sugar. For salad ornamentation dip round slices of lemon in the green parsley dust and border the dish. Birthday Party Supper. MENU. Galantine of Chicken en Bellevue. Pain de Foies-gras. Toasted Rusks. Sandwiches. Chicken Salad. Ornamented Fruit Cake. Charlotte Russe. Orange Cake. Meringues a la Gelee. Frozen Bisque of Preserved Ginger. Lemonade. Coffee. 857— bhicken Salad. The same as No . 150. Make up the form in a round salad bowl, place a heart lettuce on top, and quarters of eggs in close order around the base. 858 -Art in cutting Eggs. Hold the hard-boiled egg in a napkin in your hollowed hand while you cut it in quarters lengthwise, and avoid breaking the yolks and spoiling the eggs for There were but 21 or 22 persons to be provided for so the difficulty in such a case is to provide a small enough quantity of each dish and yet make a table that is pleasing to look at, tor they that come to the supper are not really hungry and only care to try whatever is new ; at the same time you do not like to ask them to a Barmecide's feast of empty plaies and nothing else. There is nothing for it but to utilize most of the surplus, such as cakes, for the next dinner table, make as little as possible of liver pate and chicken salad and submit to a little waste in other respects, knowing that the Ice cream and meringues will be sufficiently well patronized and the large fruit cake will be wanted to be sent away in presents to absent friends. Cost of material : Galantine— fowl 75, jelly 2 qts 55 (1.30) Pain de foies-gras 45, jelly 25 (70) Rusks (No. 277) and sandwiches, (25cents). Chicken salad, (No. 857), (70 cents). Ornamented fruit cake (No. 836), (2.00) Charlotte-Russe of 2 qts Bavarian and cake, (55 cents). Orange cake, (No. 867), (35 cents). Meringues, 25 (No. 460) with jelly (45 cents). Bisque of ginger, ice cream, (No. 207), (60 cents). Lemonade and coffee, (35 cents). Total $7,25; 22 persons, ^3 cents a plate. 860— Pain de Foies-Gras. It means loaf or cake of poultry livers, and is of course, a high-flavored dish of which a small quantity suffices, to be eaten with thin sliced bread as potted tongue or ham would be. Pain is the French word for bread or loaf and seems to be used in the same sense as we use the word cheese in head-cheese, liver-cheese and the like. In other words this is a form of liver paste, or pate-de-foie-gras, turned out of its mould and incased in jelly by the same method as for ^ boned chicken. Take the ingredients in two parts and it does not seem so formidable. ^ pound chicken livers. 6 ounces fat hen or salt pork. 2 ounces lean cooked ham. i^ cup sherry. I bay leaf, pepper, little mixed ground spices, salt.