Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1929 — Page 11

OCT. 22, 1929.

Dorothy Alden’s Page of Helpful Hints for the Home

Halloween Decorations Attractive Halloween decorations are easily achieved. So many things at this season of the year lend themselves. Besides the pumpkins, fruit, autumn leaves and /lowers, the stores are 'illed with suggestions for centerpieces, place cards, table coverings and what have you. ff your occasion is rather dignified. such as an afternoon party, or dinner a flower centerpiece probably would be the best. Chrysanthemums, with a cut-out witch mounted on a spiral wire, riding the tops of the flowers, would be appropriate. With these, use either yellow, pale green or black candles. There may be chrysanthemum fashioned nut cups and place cards surmounted with tiny witches. A pretty table for an evening party may have as its centerpiece one large size candle, orange in color. and grouped around it four smaller and shorter candles of either paler orange or yellow. Place all the candles on a bed of brightcolored autumn leaves, radiating from the center in a four-spoke pattern. Then make tiny place cards os follows: On a flat orange cream mint, fasten a yellow or white Life Saver with a dab of frosting. Place two together, one on top of the other, then a third as a handle to the candle holder. In the center, set a tiny orange, yellow, or black candle. This makes in attractive effect, and the tiny name card can be tied to the handle of each one. Still another suggestion is to use a large doll dressed as a ghost for your centerpiece. Clothes pins

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dressed the same way will make place cards and souvenirs. Mark a face on each clothes pin. and dress them in white crepe paper. On your table, lay strips of crepe paper patterned with cobwebs and bats, and let both appear in the other room decorations. Suspend paper bats from the lights, which have been covered in cobweb paper shades. Witches and black cats can ride the tumblers and other piecesof tableware. Paint Your Cutlery If you have a miscellaneous collection of kitchen cutlery and pine for a set which has colored handles to harmonize with your kitchen color scheme, paint them all with a lacquer in the desired color, and then to insure their washing without rubbing off dip each handle into waterproof varnish. Orange With Doughnuts Doughnuts may be given a delightfully different taste by flavoring them with the grated rind of an orange. Time Is Saved Cookies and baking powder biscuits dropped from a spoon are attractive and save time spent in rolling them out.

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JS there a person so old and so -M. sour as not to get a tiny thrill out of Halloween? I suspect that e\en some of the most staid and dignified of us have at least a secret desire to ring doorbells and soap windows on that night. To keep ourselves in hand, it usuVegetable Soup Is Good Without Soup Bone Base • i It sometimes is desirable to make a vegetable soup which does not contain the usual foundation soup bone. On such occasions, the following recipes will be helpful 1 tun diced potatoes ’4 cup diced celery 1 cud diced carrots '2 cud diced ohion 4 tablespoon butter or margarine 2 teaspoons salt 2 quarts water Brown the vegetables gently in the fat. Add salt and water. Bring to boil. Cover tightly and cook at simmering point. If desired, a few tablespoons of rice or barley may be added after the soup has reached the boiling point. These will add body to it. This recipe may be varied in a number of ways. If your family is fond of tomatoes, substitute a can of tomatoes for part of the liquid specified. Left-over vegetables of peas, string beans, and turnips also may be added.

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ally is safest either to give a party or go to one—anything to work off the extra energy-and general urge for prankishness. Perhaps you are planning to have some friends in for bridge some afternon near Halloween. If so, you will want to have refreshments which will carry .out the usual color scheme and idea. The menus given here will give you a number of ideas for Halloween foods which will carry out the orange and black or brown color scheme. Afternoon Party .Tack-O-I.antern Salad Brown Bread Sandwiches Cheese Sticks Witches* Bonfire Halloween Cakes Coffee Dinner Party Soup ala Goldenrod Fried Chicken with Apricots Sweet Potato Crouuettes Scalloped Corn Macedoine Salad with Cheese Wafers Orange Ice Cream Coffee Evening Parties Dream Cakes Pickles Olives Halloween Salad Doughnuts Ginger Ale or Ci*%f Cheese and Nut Sandwiches Baked Bean Sandwiches Dili Pickles Little Pumpkin Pies Coffee Poo Corn Balls Jack-o-Lantem Salad

Drain the juice from canned peach halves. Arrange shredded lettuce on salad plates and In the center of each place a spoonful of fruit salad mixture—a combination of chopped pineapple, dates, celery and nuts, mixed with mayonnaise. Invert a peach half over each spoonful of this mixture, the rounded side of the peach uppermost. On the peach make a jack-o-lantern face, small aisins for the eyes, a clove for the nose, and chopped almonds for teeth.

Witches Bonfire Have ice cream frozen hard. Shape with a cone-shaped ice cream scoop. Quickly roll the cones in chopped nuts and place on a dessert dish. In the top of each, insert a small birthday cake candle holder, orange in color, containing one of the very small candles. Pour around each conical shaped ice cream, a sauce, made from cooking together for ten minutes maple syrup, stick cinnamon, and a few chopped raisins. Light the candles when the dessert is served. If this is handled quickly, it is very effective. It is possible to omit the candle holders, and merely stick the tiny candles in the top of the ice cream. They are blown out as soon as every one has seen them any way, and little if any paraffin will run down on the ice cream.

Halloween Cakes Prepare a sponge cake batter. Bake in a sheet or small cake pans. Frost with frosting tinted orange. When frosting hardens, use meP-ed chocolate and paint on Jack-o-antern faces, cats, or witches, with a small brush. If the cake is baked in a sheet, it will, of course, be necessary to cut it in squares after frosting it. Dream Cakes Orate or mash cheese. Season with a bit of prepared mustard and salt and paprika. Spread on slices of bread. Top with another slice, and toast on both sides until cheese is softened and bread browned. Serve hot. For best result, if the party is not too large, make the dream cakes at the table with the aid of an electric toaster or grill. Cut the bread in fancy shapes. Halloween Salad Select rosy red apples, cut slice from top and scoop out insides, leaving a shell about one-half inch thick. Fill with a Waldorf salad—chopped apples, celery and nuts mixed with mayonnaise. Replace tops, so apples appear whole. Serve on lettuce leaves. If desired, a face may be carved in the apple shell. If this is done, paint the cut surface with lemon juice to prevent its turning dark. Baked Bean Sandwiches Mash the baked beans, canned or home baked, and mix with chopped sweet pickles and a little finely minced onion. Spread between spices of buttered brown bread. Soup ala Goldenrod Make a good cr&yn of celery soup. Just before serving sprinkle over the top of each soup either grated raw carrots or grated egg yolk. Fried Chicken With Apricots Fry the chicken according to your favorite recipe until it is an appetizing golden brown. Garnish the edge of the serving platter with canned apriqote, drained from their juice, serving one with each serving of chicken. The brown of the chicken and the goid of the apricots make a very seasonable and attractive color note for the meal, and the apricots themselves lend a pleasant relish to the meal. Macedoine Salad This salad Is made from any combination of cooked and raw vegetables, dressed with French dressing. Carrots should predominate in it on this occasion, because of their color. They may be cooked, cut in thin strips, and combined with the other vegetables, or grated, raw, and sprinkled over the top of the salad and through it. Witches, black cats, etc., cut from "Black paper and mounted on toothpicks should be stuck in the ice cream and pumpkin pies. Easier to Find Avery useful scrap bag can be made from a yard of mosquito net- j ting. The netting make it easy to see all the pieces-inside. so if a certain color or piece is wanted it can be located quickly.

Bag Holds; Waste In the kitchen waste basket place a large paper bag saved' from the groceries. Place all the waste in this bag, which can be easily removed and burned without the unpleasant task of removing the waste material bit by bit. The bag also prevents the scattering of dust, ashes and small scraps. Masquerade One of Big Features for Halloween A masquerade always is popular I with the children, and particularly so on Halloween. The nice thing [ about masquerades is that they practicallv furnish their own entertainment. In addition, you will want to plan for the time-honored games of apple bobbing, fortune telling, etc. The house can be made Hallow-een-like with lights shaded in crepe paper, cornstalks, witches and black cats cut from Black paper. For little children, the effect should be picturesque rather than actually “scary.” If there are ghosts and witches, let them be friendly ones. Favors at the table might be noise-makers of various kinds. There are many of them to be seen in the stores which in themselves will decorate the table. Witches and ghosts made from lollipops also are good. Let a huge pumpkin jack-o-lan-tern form the centerpiece, with a hollowed-out pumpkin on each side of it. When all the children are seated at the table, sandwiches miraculously can be taken from one of the pumpkins, while it is discovered that the other one contains orange juice. Plates and glasses are filled. For dessert, there could be little sponge cakes and orange sherbet Suitable fillings for the sandwiches are chopped eggs, fruit pastes of chopped dates, figs and raisins, cottage cheese, nut pastes, and a little jelly.

Use for Powder Puffs Discarded powder puffs can be used to good advantage for applying cleaning preparations to bathroom fixtures and mirrors, and for putting paste polish on stove, shoes or silver. Broom Cleans Tub Try using a child’s broom for cleaning the bathtub. This ordinarily is a back-breaking job. but the broom will eliminate much of the stooping and bending. Water Line Higher When a recipe says that souffles, custards, etc., should be baked in a pan of water, the water line always should come up above the food line to secure best results.

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Vegetables, Meat Make Good Dinner Meat and vegetable combination dinners are especially appetizing at this time of year. Their economy and ease of preparation recommend them to the busy homemaker. Here is one with baked cabbage, tomatoes and hamburg: ■ 3 cups boiled rabbage If 4 cups well seasoned slewed tomatoes 3 tablespoon margarine Salt and pepper to taste 1 cup bread crumbs If 4 cud finelv chopped hamburg Butter a casserole cr baking dish, put in a layer of meat, then tomato, then cabbage and bread crumbs. Continue until all has been used, making the last layer of bread crumbs. Dot with bits of butter and bake in a moderate oven thirty minutes. Beef Hash With Meats 2 cups chopped cooked beef 2 cups told boiled potatoes 1 cup chopped cooked beets 2 tablespoon bacon drippings 2 tablespoon chopped onion 1 tablespoon chopped green pepper Salt and pepper Mix the meat, potatoes and beets, season with salt and pepper. Melt the drippings in a frying pan. add the onion and green pepper. Cook until slightly browned, then add the first mixture. Cook until thoroughly heated and a brown crust forms on bottom. Fold as as omelet and serve. Hungarian Goulash 2 pounds round or flank steak cut in 3-ineh squares .1 tablespoon drippings 4 medium onions sliced I enp peas 1 cup cauliflower 1 cub crushed tomatoes Seasoning Water Wipe the meat with damp cloth: : roll in flour, brown well in hot drippings with onions. Add one cup boiling water, cover and cook slowly for thi*ee-quarters hour. Then add the vegetables, season with salt and pepper and cook until vegetables are tender. Thicken gravy with flour browned in buter. Boiled Dinner For this dish use a piece of brisket or cut from the rump. Immerse in boiling water, boil rapidly for ten minutes, then simmer, allowing fifteen minutes to each pound of meat. One Trour before the meat is done, add two teaspoons salt, one-half teaspoon pepper, two medium-sized onions cut in half. One-half hour before serving add four carrots quartered, four turnips, one pint green beans, a small head of cabbage cut in eights and five potatoes halved. Cook until vegetables are tender. Cook six small beets in a sauce pan. When tender, skin and serve with the meat and other vegetables.

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