For Pomelade use one cup of juice of grape fruit to a
quart of water, carbonated or plain. Sweeten to taste
and serve ice cold. Limeade is made in the same way.
Either of these drinks is refreshing and both are mildly
tonic in their properties.
<| Milk Lemonade
To six sliced lemons add a half pound of sugar and let
it stand ten or twelve hours ; strain and add a pint and
a half of boiling water ; stir well and add a half pint
of boiling milk✪ Milk Lemonade ; strain and serve hot or cold, adding a
little nutmeg, if liked.
Q Raspberry Cup
Make a syrup of one pint of granulated sugar and one
pint of water and let it cool ; pour over fresh red rasp*
berri✪ Raspberry Cupes and set on ice to chill thoroughly. Use sherbet
cups in serving.
Q Currant Cup is made in the same way, by pouring
the cold syrup over stemmed currants✪ Currant Cup and setting away
for three or four hours where it will chill thoroughly.
(| Currant or Raspberry Shrub is made of the strained
juice of the fruit, to which a pound of sugar for each
pint of juice is added ; boil five minutes, bottle and seal.
95
In good company you need not ask who is the master
of the feast. The man who sits in the lowest place,
and who is always industrious in helping everyone, is
certainly the man.
—Hume.
A FEW MENUS
In winter be well-capped, well-shod,
And well on porridge fed.
—Gaelic Proverb.
TWO BREAKFASTS
Fruited Cereal
Potato and Egg Scramble
Toast Coffee
Grape Fruit
Nut Hash Muffins
Coffee
100
Everyone knows what boils in his
own pot.
— Creole Proverb.
SIMPLE HOME LUNCHEONS
(When papa is at home)
Nut Croquettes Baked Potatoes
Bread and Butter
Vegetable Salad Buttered Wafers
Berries and Cream
Coffee
(When mamma and the children are alone)
Nut Soup
Hot Cream of Wheat poured over ripe sliced Peaches
Chocolate Bread and Butter
101
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for
joy is bread and sorrow is medi-
cine.
-H. W. Beecher.
RED LUNCHEONS
Filbert Soup
Waldorf Eggs
Tomato Salad No. 1
Strawberries and Cream
Coffee
Croutons
Rice Balls
Buttered Wafers
Assorted Cakes
Red P\aspberry Soup Crackers
Waldorf Eggs
Bread Olives
Tomato Salad No. 3 Buttered Wafers
Strawberries and Cream Assorted Cakes
Coffee
Nuts Red Bon-bons Raisins
The Filbert Soup may be colored with the liquid coloring matter
used in cooking or it may be served in red glasses. The dining-
room and table decorations may be red roses, or bowls of scarlet
poppies.
103
They are as sick that surfeit with
too much, as they that starve with
nothing.
—Shakespeare.
COMPANY DINNERS
Strained Nut Soup
Stuffed Olives Crackers
Waldorf Eggs
Baked Peas
Rice
Tomato Salad No. 2
Potato Balls
White Sauce
Creamed Onions
Buttered Wafers
Strawberry Shortcake
Vanilla Cream Assorted Cakes
Coffee
Cream of Vegetable Soup Croutons
Baked Peppers No. 2 Cream Sauce
Stewed Celery Mushroom Patties
Nut Loaf No. 1 Tomato Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Peas
Cucumber Salad
Ice Cream Assorted Cakes
Toasted Crackers Cheese
Coffee
105
Bread is the staff of life.
—Swift.
COMPANY DINNER
Cream of Celery Soup Crackers
Curried Eggs No. 2 Olives
Stewed Mushrooms
Nut Loaf No. 1 Onion Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes
Cucumber Salad
Ice Cream Assorted Cakes
Toasted Crackers Coffee Cheese
Fruit Bon-bons Nuts
SIMPLE HOME DINNER
Nut Chowder
Stuffed Tomatoes No. 1
Mashed Potatoes Stewed Onions
Meat substitutes
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
For Pomelade use one cup of juice of grape fruit to a quart of water, carbonated or plain. Sweeten to taste and serve ice cold. Limeade is made in the same way. Either of these drinks is refreshing and both are mildly tonic in their properties.
<| Milk Lemonade
To six sliced lemons add a half pound of sugar and let it stand ten or twelve hours ; strain and add a pint and a half of boiling water ; stir well and add a half pint of boiling milk ; strain and serve hot or cold, adding a little nutmeg, if liked.
Q Raspberry Cup
Make a syrup of one pint of granulated sugar and one pint of water and let it cool ; pour over fresh red raspberries and set on ice to chill thoroughly. Use sherbet cups in serving.
Q Currant Cup is made in the same way, by pouring the cold syrup over stemmed currants and setting away for three or four hours where it will chill thoroughly.
(| Currant or Raspberry Shrub is made of the strained juice of the fruit, to which a pound of sugar for each pint of juice is added ; boil five minutes, bottle and seal.
In good company you need not ask who is the master of the feast. The man who sits in the lowest place, and who is always industrious in helping everyone, is certainly the man.
—Hume.
A FEW MENUS
In winter be well-capped, well-shod, And well on porridge fed.
—Gaelic Proverb.
TWO BREAKFASTS
Fruited Cereal
Potato and Egg Scramble
Toast Coffee
Grape Fruit
Nut Hash Muffins
Coffee
Everyone knows what boils in his
own pot.
— Creole Proverb.
SIMPLE HOME LUNCHEONS
(When papa is at home)
Nut Croquettes Baked Potatoes
Bread and Butter
Vegetable Salad Buttered Wafers
Berries and Cream
Coffee
(When mamma and the children are alone)
Nut Soup
Hot Cream of Wheat poured over ripe sliced Peaches Chocolate Bread and Butter
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
-H. W. Beecher.
RED LUNCHEONS
Filbert Soup Waldorf Eggs Tomato Salad No. 1
Strawberries and Cream Coffee
Croutons
Rice Balls Buttered Wafers Assorted Cakes
Red Raspberry Soup Crackers
Waldorf Eggs
Bread Olives
Tomato Salad No. 3 Buttered Wafers
Strawberries and Cream Assorted Cakes
Coffee Nuts Red Bon-bons Raisins
The Filbert Soup may be colored with the liquid coloring matter used in cooking or it may be served in red glasses. The diningroom and table decorations may be red roses, or bowls of scarlet poppies.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with
nothing.
—Shakespeare.
COMPANY DINNERS
Strained Nut Soup Stuffed Olives Crackers
Waldorf Eggs
Baked Peas Rice Tomato Salad No. 2
Potato Balls White Sauce
Creamed Onions
Buttered Wafers
Strawberry Shortcake
Vanilla Cream Assorted Cakes
Coffee
Cream of Vegetable Soup Croutons
Baked Peppers No. 2 Cream Sauce Stewed Celery Mushroom Patties
Nut Loaf No. 1 Tomato Sauce Mashed Potatoes Peas
Cucumber Salad
Ice Cream Assorted Cakes
Toasted Crackers Cheese
Coffee
Bread is the staff of life. —Swift.
COMPANY DINNER
Cream of Celery Soup Crackers
Curried Eggs No. 2 Olives
Stewed Mushrooms
Nut Loaf No. 1 Onion Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes
Cucumber Salad
Ice Cream Assorted Cakes
Toasted Crackers Coffee Cheese
Fruit Bon-bons Nuts
SIMPLE HOME DINNER
Nut Chowder
Stuffed Tomatoes No. 1
Mashed Potatoes Stewed Onions
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