Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1929 — Page 8

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Dorothy Alden’s Page of Helpful Hints for the Home

Seme Tea to Have a Cozy Hour Nothin# is cosier or more hospitable when friends drop in to see you than to serve them with a cup of gteaming tea with some simple tea accompaniments. To do this is not a lot of trouble. The little tea bags are probably the handiest to have on hand, as with them each guest may do her own brewing. Then a teapot filled with freshly boiled water, lump sugar, lemon slices with a few cloves stuck in them, and some simple little accompaniment which you can have on hand for emergencies, and which I am going to tell you about here. Then you will want a tray large enough to carry alll these things to the living room. Os course, afternoon tea can be very festive, but I am endeavoring to tell you, first, how simple and yet effective it can be. If you wish you may have thinly sliced oranges as well as lemons on your tray. Russian tea is prized by some, and for it you will want candled cherries, sugar and lemon for each cup —or glass, for it is often most served !n a glass, one with a handle. For accompaniments, there are any number of dainty little cookies and pastries to be bought in package form and kept on hand for emergencies. If you have only the •lmplest tea wafer, you may dress it Up by means of a teaspoon of mar- j tnalade or jam, If you like. Here are recipes for several other teatime dainties: Marguerites If there is time for advance prep- j aration, the. Marguerites can be'

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The Cookie Jar With the children home from school and guests dropping in unexpectedly, as they do during the holidays, it is best to keep the cokie jar well stocked. Dorothy Alden’s cookie recipes will furnish you with the proper amount of inspiration to keep it filled to the top. A stamped, addressed envelope will bring them to you. Write to Dorothy Alden, The Indianapolis Times.

made by mixing chopped nuts into boiled frosting. Spread this mixture on reception wafers and brown in a slow oven. Emergency Marguerites may be made by stirring enough confectioner’s sugar into one tablespoon or more evaporated milk, mixing to a smooth paste, and spreading on wafers of any kind. Chopped nuts or fruit may be mixed into the paste. Freshly baked muffins are delicious at tea time. Or, if you have muffins or biscuits left over, toast them, spread with butter, and serve hot to your afternoon tea guests. Os course, plain bread and butter if dainty is always good. Chopped parsley may be creamed with the butter before spreading, chopped nuts, chopped pimento, or mint leaves. Cinnamon Toast '< enp butter or margarine. 6 tablespoon powdered sugar I tablespoon cinnamon Mix sugar and cinnamon, add butter creamed to smoothness and stir until thoroughly mixed. Toast the bread cut in three-eighth-inch slices on one side. Spread the untoasted side with the cinnamon butter mixture, and return to the oven for a few minutes until the butter is melted.

Snow Man Party Will Be a ‘ Knockout * if You Are New Years Eve Hostess BY DOROTHY ALDEN. ENTERTAINING runs riot during the holidays, starting with Christmas eve and culminating with New’ Year’s eve. The children, big and little, are home from school. There usually are visiting friends or relatives, a party in whose honor gives one an excuse for entertaining and the season itself simply is made for merrymaking. The week is filled with luncheons and teas, with a suitable wind-up for festivities on the night of Dec. 31. If you are planning a New Year’s eve party. I am sure you will be interested in the outlines of the parties I am going to tell you about here. If you are not entertaining on that night, you will, just the same, be able to use some of the ideas, for all are in keeping with the season. For Nw Year’s eve, then, a snow man party or dance is especially suitable. White should predominate in the decorations, with just a few holiday greens in evidence. Cotton batting ‘icycles” and “snowflakes” may be used effectively to enhance the frosty scene.

Let the snow man stand in a prominent place. ( A dress form makes a good foundation for the snow man, and may be covered with cotton batting, sprinkled with “snowflakes.”) The snow' man holds in his battered hat the programs or tallies for dance, cards or games. The table may be made festive with a snow scene as a centerpiece, using the usual cotton batting for snow. Make an Eskimo igloo or hut from some heavy paper, covering it with the cotton. Pose a little doll dressed like an Eskimo outside the igloo, with a sled bn which are the figures 1930. A small green pennant from the top of the igloo wishes every one, "A Happy New Year.” At each place is a cotton snowball with the place card attached, while the favors are

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snappers and horns disguised as snow man and snow ladies. The following menu is suitable for such a party as this: Cheese and Olive Sandwiches Premier Sandwiches Sweet Pickles Olives Snowball Salad Green and White Mints Cos flee If you and your friends enjoy masquerades, assign some month in the year to each one of them, and ask them to come dressed to represent some important day in that month. It will be fun to guess what the costumes represent. A time party is good fun, too. Plan a number of games for the evening which are familiar to the whole crowd, such as musical chairs, fruit basket, dancing, etc. Start the first game with snap and after it has been under way a little while, ring a loud bell and tell the guests it is time to play the next game. Continue to interrupt the games in this lively manner all evening. When midnight comes, seat your guests at a circular table, if possible with the places marked off like the face of a clock, the hands pointing to midnight. Half of the clock may be lettered 1929, the other 1930, For a midnight supper at home after the dance or theater, the following plan is a good one: Make your living room look as much like your favorite restaurant as possi-ble-shaded lights, small tables, familiar signs, etc. Let one man from each table act as waiter and serve the guests from the buffet supper, which is set out in the dining room. This not only furnishes a lot of fun, but saves the hostess a lot of work. T am suggesting two more menus, suitable for this and a similar occasion:

Shrlpms or Cthiekyn * 1* Newbury Pickles Olives Rs.ro.to** Chip* Dot Rolls Pineapple Roys! Fruit Oaks Coffee Son<jpeif Oyster* Cranberry Jell* Hot. Rolls Fruit Salad Supreme Cheese Cracker* Coffee Cheese and Olive Sandwiches Mix chopped olives with soft cream cheese. Cut thin slices from a fresh loaf of sandwich bread, trim the crusts, and spread with the cheese mixture. Roll the slices of bread like jelly roll, and tie with green baby ribbon, Premier Sandwiches To two parts of finely ground chicken add one part deviled ham. Moisten with salad dressing, and spread between thin slices of pickle, Snowball Salad Vt eup whit* cherries *4 top rrushed pineapple eup pear*, chopped M pound marshmallows, cut ip piece* 1 tablespoon turnon Wee !4 eup milk l err 1 tablespoon sura r eup whippiny cream Make a custard of the milk, sugar and egg. When cool, fold in the cream, whipped. Combine the fruit, and fold into the custard mixture. Place in refrigerator twenty-four j hours before time to serve. Serve in balls on lettuce leaves. Shrimp or Chicken ala Newbnrg 1 pint shrimps or 2 cups diced chicken 3 tablespoons marrarlno VJ teaspoon salt Pepper 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon flour IV4 cups milk l beaten err M cup chopped pimento Melt the margarine, and cook the chicken or shrimp in it for three minutes, adding the seasoning and lemon juice. Remove, and stir the flour into the fat, then make a white sauce using the milk. When thickened, pour over the beaten egg, stirring well, return to lire and cook one minute. Then -add meat and pimento. Serve in patty shells. Pineapple Royal Chill canned pineapple and place a slice on each serving plate. Place a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of each slice, and stick a “happy New Year” pennant in the ice cream. Scalloped Oysters 1 pint oysters 3 cups soft bread crumbs % cup milk 6 tablespoons marrartne Salt and pepper Oil a baking dish and put in a layer of crumbs, then a layer of oysters, margarine in little pieces, salt and pepper. Repeat until all is used, finishing with a layer of crumbs dotted with margarine. Do i not have more than two layers of j oysters. Moisten with milk and oyster liquid mixed together. Bake in a moderate oven until brown j about one-half hour, and serve hot. Fruit Salad Supreme 1 cup diced apples 1 eup Mslsrs crapes, haired and seeded t 4 eup dates 14 cup chopped celery 14 cup chopped nuts Salad dressing Combine ingredients and serve chilled on lettuce. The salad dressing should be mayonnaise and whipped cream, hall and halt

Free Service What is your present household problem? Dorothy Alden will be glad to have you consult her on it. She will give the matter her personal attention and write you a letter herself. Merely inclose a stamped addressed envelope with your letter. This service Is free. Write to Dorothy Alden, The Indianapolis Times.

Leftovers Can Be Put to Good Use for Family After the holiday dinner perhaps the greatest problem is the utilization of the leftovers. Having turkey sliced cold, heated in gravy, served in hash, and finally in soup is bound to be a strain on any happy family. The leftover meat may be used to advantage for the holiday party luncheon. One suggestion calls for a combination of chicken or turkey, veal and ham, or chicken and veal, timbales. These are made by putting through the food chopper, using the fine knife, a half pound each of cooked chicken or turkey and veal. Then add one-half cup of cooked ham and one boned anchovy. Fold in one cup of thick whipped cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Coat large or sn%ll molds with an aspic jelly made by a broth prepared from the chicken or veal bones. Allow 1 tablespoon of gelatin to 2 cups of boiling, well-sea-soned broth. Soak the gelatin in 2 tablespoons cold water, then dissolve in the hot broth. Strain and cool, then coat the inside of the molds, then decorate with sliced pickles and pimentos cut in fancy shapes. Cover with another thin film of the jelly. Whip the remaining aspic to a stiff froth and add to the prepared meat mixture. Fill the molds and place on ice to set. Unmold and garnish with salad greens. Serve with mayonnaise dressing. This really is partified. Hats Need Stands So many of the hats we wear these days really demand a stand on the cupboard shelf if they are to be put away properly and kept in shape. Save the large round rolled oats cartons for this purpose. They will serve admirably. To make them more attractive, cover them in wall paper. If desired, the cover may be left off, and the inside used for the scarf and gloves which go with that particular hat Coffee in Rinse Water To keep children's khaki play suits from getting faded looking, use one cup of strong coffee in the rinse water.

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Hominy Can Be Base of Good Dishes Many good things are made with hominy, and they are especially good in the winter time as a substitute for potatoes: or try some of the following hominy dishes in place of those made from rice and macaroni. Whole hominy has had the hull of the com removed. Hominy grits are made of whole hominy ground. The whole hominy requires soaking before cooking. Hominy Baked With Cheese 2 cups cooked hominy, cup srated cheese. Se.sonings. t cup thin white sauce. Toasted crumbs. Place in a baking dish alternate layers of cooked hominy and cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Pour over all the white sauce. Top with crumbs and bake until browned. Hominy Meat Cakes 2 cups hominy grits. *2 cup cooked meat. 1 tablespoon minced onion. Seasonings. Milk or gray? to moisten. Mix ingredients together and form into cakes, brown in fat. or brush with melted fat, and brown in the oven. Hominy Pudding f cup cooked hominy g-i 1 cup milk. H cup Sugar. 1 egg. M eup eoeoanut. teaspoon Tan Ula, Beat the egg slightly and combine all ingredients and bake in a moderate oven like a rice custard. Hominy and Tomatoes Put a layer of cooked hominy in the bottom of a baking dish, cover with seasoning, pepper chopped fine, grated cheese and tomatoes. Repeat this, and cover the top with bread crumbs. Dot with margarine or small pieces of bacon. Bake in a moderate oven until heated through and crumbs are brown. Hominy Fritters 2 gg H eup milk. H eup flour. 1 eup cooked hominy. 1 teaspoon baking powdor. Separate yolks from egg whites. Beat the whites stiff, add the yolks and beat a moment. Then add sifted dry ingredients and lastly, stir In the hominy. Bake the same as griddle cakes, allowing slightly more time for baking. Serve hot with maple syrup or with fried chicken. These may be fried In deep fat. Put Flour in Grease When frying eggs, it is a good Idea to sprinkle a pinch of flour in the hot grease to keep it from spattering and burning the hands.

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Do Not Neglect Your Teeth! Decayed teeth can be the cause of most any ailment and a visit to the dentist should not be put off—to delay may cause serious illness. Lack of cash may make you * hesitate to consult the dentist. This excuse is a poor one, as you can obtain the necessary money from a loan company at a very nominal rate of interest Turn to the Want Ad page of The Times and read the many ads appearing for various loan companies. Remember, they are all reliable.

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