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CHRISTMAS DINNERS
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THE groaning beard no dear to traditlan is hard to restat on Christmas Day, we'll admit. But if time this page lack or facilities or personai Indiation says nax, the modern streamlined menus featured nothing in their appeal in the eye or holiday appetite.
They are designed to fit your own succial requirements. I have included both old favourites and new, and leave it to you to select your own paltern,
In the feasts there is choice of desserts, and a salad course that may or may not be served. If you choose to omit, the salad at dinner, perhaps you will want to serve it as a “light something" later in the day. SIMPLICITY
2 eggs beaten. Is the keynote of -Perhaps you have settled on Dinner Christens settings this year, Large. Pattern III. Then chill the cocktail rosy apples are the candlesticks. Pick frull Juices and ginger ale, prepare choice red plump ones and bumish the moulded tomato cheese salad, them with a soft cloth. Then with an and bake the Pumpkin Pie the day apple corer cut halfway through each before. Also wash the salad greens
the half cores. apple and remove Insert the candle and have
ready
to be lit just before dinner s served.
Soft yellow canilles contrast happily with the polished red of the npplea
with and harmonise
almost any colour in the dinnerware
If your table is long, and marrow. arrange the apples parade fashioni Bown the centre, using.four or five of them. But if your table round
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ovai, arrange the garland fashion, following the contour of your table. Then tuck in laurel, Ivy or any green leaves you prefer be- Smoll applesticks. tween the bunches of green Krapes pinced
Christmas Dinner 1 When hands and time are plen- itful and the family can face
a five-course dinner. Ossier Cocktail and/or Canned Tomato Soup with Canned Celery Soup added Roast Turkey Gravy
"Bread Stuffing Glazed Sweet Potaton Buttered Asparagus *Fruit and Olive Salad (optional)
Heated Rolls Steamed Pudding With Foamy Sauce or Spanish Cream
Coffee
casually here and there add an effec- live note of colour.
Nul and fruit dishes, one at each place--with nutcracker between every two places--are made of brown blotting paper. The night before the feast All each with the mixed nuts and put it in place, as is the picture; the next day add the grapes
No matter which one of the four dinner patterns you select, there are a number of things you can do shond of time, thus ensuring a holiday for yourself as well as your guests.
PREPARE AHEAD
Christmas Dinner III When you are solitary cook and the living-room table must serve
as a dining table. Apricot Nectar, Line, and Ginger Ale Cocktail Etoast of lamb will Roasted Potatoes and Buttered Fens and Ontons Gravy
Bread Stleks Currant Jelly *Moulded Tomalo CheESP Salad topilonal) Pumpkin Pie or Assoried Fruits Roasted Nuts Coffee
4 tbsp, butter or margarine.
1 large peeled minced onion,
2 e, ininted celery.
tbsp. minced parsley.
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Pare potatoes and cook until tender. Mash; add hot milk salt and pepper Add eggs and mix thoroughly, using potato masher. Melt buller Saucepan; add onion and rook unill tender. Add remaining ingredients and blend thoroughly. Add this inixture to the mashed potatoes. Stuif 1 chicken or duck weighing dib, after It is dressed.
BAKED PLUM PUDDING
11⁄2 brown sugar,
3 c. water.
5 tbsp. butter or margarine.
1 egg beaten.
14. sifted culte flour. 11⁄2 tsp. baking powder. 14 tsp. salt
raisins.
sp, vanilla extract. and store them to the refrigerator. Combine 1 c. of the brown sugar, For Pun Roasted Potatoes, coolt the water, and 1 tbsp. of the butter, peeled white or sweet potatoes 10 and simmer for 10 mln. Meanwhile min. Forty-five inl. before the cream the remaining 4 tbsp. butter Roast of Lamb is done, arrange the with the remaining c. of the brown potatoes around the roust und bake sugar. Add the beaten egg and mix 40 min. or until tender, turning and well. Sift the flour, baking powder,
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basting frequently with the drippings and salt together, and add to the GENUINE
in the pan. In preparing the But- creamed mixture while stirring. Arld tered Peas and Onions cook the peas raisins and vanilla, and stir until and small or sliced onions separately. well mixed. Pour the hot syrup into then drain combine and season.
about 8in. x 12in, and drop the #pan As for Dinner Pattern TV, follow pudding mixture by tablespoons onto this and wish Christmas Day the hot syrup. Bake in a moderate
you'll came more than once a year. The oven of 350 deg. F. for 45 min. Serve day before the holiday prepare the warm or cold with plain cream or lec celery and salad greens, and chill in cream Serves B.
Christmas Dinner IV
When you want to entertain and two-plate slove must do The cooking for your guests. Tomato Julce Brown Chicken Fricassee with
Dumplings
Biring Beans with Lemon Butter Celery Toasted Split Rolls
Tossed Salad of Greens, WITH Oranges, Grapefruit. Appics and Grapes Crackers and Assorted Cheeses with Eowl of Nuts and Raisins or Conec Jer Cream
Nuts
Coffee
MOULDED TOMATO CHEESE SALAD
10oz. tin tomato soup. Doz., cream cheese,
Joz. unflavoured geisțin.
e. cold water.
c. mayonnaise,
c. finely chopped raw vegetables (celery, onions, green pepper, and pimlento).
Lettuce.
Heat soup to boiling, remove from heat, ndd cheese, and bent with a hand beater or an electic beater at medium speed until thoroughly blend- ed. Meanwille soak the gelatin in the cold water for 5 min., then add to the hot soup mixture and stir unt!! Take Dinner Pattern No. 1 on this
gelatin is dissolved. Cool, but do not page as an example of this. The steamed pudding may be made in ad- refrigerator along with the tomata allow to thicken. Add all remaining vance and then resteamed in the orig julee. Prepare the string beans and ingredients but the lettuce and pour pan about sin. x 8n, x 2in. inal mould for about 1 hr. before chill. If desired, make the Chicken into
Cut into squares serving. Or, if you prefer, make and Fricassee the day before, then chill. Chill until firm. steam I just before dinner. On the day before the festivities, clean, stuff ond truss your turkey. Also clean the potatoes and store them in the the turkey refrigerator along with and cleaned salad greens. If Spanish Cream is your cholce for dessert, make it the day before.
On Christmas morning prepare the ulives and oranges for the salad and let stand in the French dressing until It is time to complete the salad. For the Glazed Sweet Potatoes-enough medium sweet to serve 6-cook potatoes until tender and drain. Combine
c. melted butter or margarine and 1 c. brown sugar in n Toss the potatoes in this saucepan.
Christmas Dinnerli
the entire household. shares in preparation of
the feast..
When
Grape Juice Cocktail Polato and Celery Staffing
Buttered Squash Giblet Gravy Cabbage and Raw Carrel Baked Plum Padding with Ice Cream or Cream
or Fruit lec Coffee
then
mixture until well epaled; simmer over low heat unill glazed.
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Here are some recipes right on hand and ready for use on this pre- paration day.
BREAD STUFFING
3 qts. stale (not hard) bread-
crumbs.
11⁄2 tsp. salt.
1 tbsp. sage,
2 tbsp. chopped celery.
2 tsp. chopped parsley.
2 tsp. pepper.
c. butter or margarine.
14. minced onion.
Use day-old brend for the crumbs. Combine the breadcrumbs, salt, sage, celery, parsley and pepper. Menn- while melt the butter in a large skillet, add the onion, and simmer until tender. Add the seasoned brenderumbs and brown, stirring the crumbs constantly from the bottom. Stuff bird weighing 8b. after it is dressed.
FRUIT AND OLIVE SALAD
2 large oranges,
6 large stuffed olives.
e. French dressing..
1 large avocada penṛ.
Salad greens.
the
With a sharp knife, pare oranges deep enough to remove all the orange
it your're using Dinner Pattern II, membrane. Remove clean your duck or chicken the day sections and cut each section in half. before the holiday. Do not stuff it, Thinly slice the olives, and add with however, until just before you roast the oranges to the French dressing. it, as the potato stuffing should be Peel the avocado pear and cut in Bght and fluffy. Also, on the day half crosswise. Carefully pull the before, steam the squash and store it halves away from the seed; then cut cach half into crosswise rings about covered in the refrigerator.
and French dressing mixture. Serves
In serving the grape juice cocktail in thick. Arrange a ring of avocado we suggest that you first frost the on each six individual beds of saind rin of the cocktail glasses. To do greens, and all the centre of each this, dip the top rim of each glass ring with some of the orange, olive In lemon Juleo then in granulated sugor. Chill for at least hr. in the 6. refrigerator before serving, and you have a cool frosty band arount the lop of each rim that will stand for some time without meling. If your dessert is Plum Pudding, bake it in 1 c. hot milk or c. evaporated same oven with ducle or chicken for milk and c, water, heated. the last 45 minutes of the roasting 2 tsp. salt. period.
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POTATO AND CELERY STUFFING
medium potatoes,
tup,, pepper.
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