Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1912 — MAKE DESSERTS LOOK PRETTY [ARTICLE]

MAKE DESSERTS LOOK PRETTY

Numerous Fancy Designs in Molds That the Woman of Taste Can Use to Advantage. ■ A good-looking dessert has sponge cake or cottage pudding batter baked In oval rings, large or individual, the center filled with Charlotte raise or Bavarian cream dotted with whipped cream in fancy design; a similar design is arranged around the base of • the cake. For a family meal the cottage pudding can be filled with fruit, tapioca, orange or pineapple. Many of the hollow ring molds have fancy shapes, cones, turrets or flowers, but where pennies count the plain ones are more practical for all uses. Moreover, it takes a skillful cook to empty the contents of a fancy mold without marring it . For special occasions there are various molds to suit Hearts can be gfip in all sizes, both hollow rings and plain. Stars are easily found, and for card parties there are forms to represent hearts, diamonds, clubs or spades. Almost any flower used in decoration can be duplicated in a mold, targe or individual, For mousses it Is easy to find a mold suited to its kind. Thus there are tin molds shaped like a small ham, others represent fish, straight and coiled, big and little, while some havfe a small chicken arranged to appear on the top when Inverted. These are rather bizarre and not practical for the housekeeper with small income. Any one who has tried to serve spinach appftizingly will welcome a new mold, star-shaped, with a press and removable bottom. The finely chopped green when dressed is put ip the mold, the water pressed out through perforated bottom, which can then be lifted out for easy serving.