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CHRISTMAS DINNERS
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THE groaning board so dear to tradition is hard to resist on Christmas Day, we'll admit. er facilitics or personal Ineffnalion says nay, the modern streamlined menus featured on nothing in their appeal to the eye or holiday appetite.
They are designed to fit your own special requirements.
and leave it to you to select your own pattern,
I have included both old favourites and new,
In the feasts there is a 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'lt as a "Dght semelling" later in the day.
SIMPLICITY, the keynote of Christmas settings this year. Large, rosy apples are the candlesticks. Pick choice red plump ones and burnish them with a soft cloth. Then with an apple corer cut halfway through ench
the cores. Apple and remove Insert the candle and have it ready to be lit just before dinner is served. Soft yellow candles contrast happily with the polished red of the apples: and harmonise with almost any colour in the dinnerware
If your table is long and narrow. fr arratge the apples parade down the centre, using four or Ove of then. But if your table is round
aval.
Te them garland
fashion, following the contour of Then tuck a laurel, ivy your table,
or any green leaves you prefer be--
ther tween
applesticks. Smal bunches of green
pinced
Christmas Dinner 1
When hands and time are plen tiful and the family.can face
n five-course dimer, Oyster Cocktall and/or Canned Tomato Soup with Canned Celery Boup added Roast Turkey Unavy
*Bread
Staffing Glazed Sweet Pelalaes Baltered Asparagus 'Frull and Olive Salad (optional)
Heated Rolls Steamed Pudding With Foamy Sauce or Spanish Cream
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casually here and there add an effec tive note of colour.
Nut and fruit dishes, one at each place-with 21 muterocker between every two places-are made of brown blotting paper. The night before the feast 1 each with the mixed nuts and put it in place, as a the picture; The next day add the grapes,
No matter which one of the four diracr patterns you select, there are n number of things you can do ahead of time, thus ensuring a hollday for yourself as well as your guests.
PREPARE AHEAD
Take Dinner Pattern No. 1 on this page as an example of this. The
Perhaps you have settled on Dinner The chill the cocktail Pattern 111. fruit Juices and ginger ale, prepure the moulded tomato, cheese salud. and bake the Pumpkin Pie the day Also wash the salad greens before,
Christmas Dinner III When you are solitary cank and the living-room table must serve
as a dilig table. Apricot Nectar, Lime, and Ginger Ale CucketAlt. Roast of lamb with Roasted Potatoes and Butlered Peas and Onions Gravy
Bread Sticks Currant Jelly
Moulded Tomato Cheese
Salad (optional)
Pumpkin Plc or Assorted Fruits
Roasted Nuts Coffee
2 eggs beaten.
4 tbsp. butter or margarine.
1 large peeled minced onion, 2. minced celery,
4 tbsp. minced parsley.
Pare potatoes and cook until-tender. Manh; add het milk salt and pepper Add eggs and mix thoroughly, using potato inther. Melt butter in a saucepan add onion and cook until tender. Add remaining: ingredients Add this ant blend thoroughly. mixture to the mashed potatoes. Stuff 1 chicken or duck weighing 41b, nftur is dressed.
BAKED PLUM PUDDING
4. brown stągar.
3 c water.
5 th butter or margarine.
1 egg beaten.
1. sifted cake flour.
1 tsp baking powder.
15 tsp. salt,
Iis
1 raisins,
1 tsp. valla extract.
Combine e. of the brown sugar,
and store them in the refrigerator. For Pan Roasted Potatues, conk the water, and tbsp. of the butter, peeled white or sweet potatoes 10 and simmer for 10 min. Meanwhille miu. Forty-five min. before the cream the remaining 4 tbsp butter 14c. of the brown potatoes around the roast and bake sugar. Add
Itoast of Lamb is done, arrange the with the re beaten cut and mix
10 min, or until tender, turning and well. Sift the flour, baking powder, the basting frequently with the drippings and alt together, and add to
Add in the pan. In preparing the But- ercau
ercamed mixture white stirring. tered Fens and Onions cook the peas raisins and vanilla, and stir until and smalt or sliced onions separately, well mixed. Pour the hot syrup into then drah combine apd season.
As for Dinner Patterns IV, follow a pan about itn. x 12in, and drop the mixture by tablespoons onto this and you'll with Christmas Day the hot syrup. Bake in a moderate cante inore than once a yeaf. The oven of 350 deg. E for 45 min. Serve day before the holiday prepare the warm or cold with plain cream or lee celery and salad greens, and chill in cream Serves 8,
Christmas Dinner 1V
When you want to entertain and two-plate stove must do
The
cooking for your guests. Tomato Juler Brown Chilcken Fricassee with
Dumplings
String licans with Lemon Butter Celery Toasted Split Rolls Tossed Salad of Greens, With Oranges, Grapefruit. Apples and Grapes Crackers and Assorted Cheeses with Bowl of Nuis and Itaisins
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or
pudding
MOULDED TOMATO CHEESE SALAD
10oz. th tomato soup.
9oz.. cream cheese.
1oz. unflavoured gelatin
e. cold water.
ic, maycunalse.
1 e. finely chopped raw vegetables fcelery, onions, green pepper, and pimiento).
Lettuce,
Hent soup to beiling, remove from heal, add cheese, and beat with a hund beater or an electric benter at medium speed until thoroughly blend- ed. Meanwhile soak the gelatin in the cold water for 5 min; then seld to the hut up mixture and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Cool, but do not
steained pudding may be made in ad retrigerator along with the tomato allow to thleken. Add all remaining vance and then resteamed in the orig inal mould for about 1 hr. before Juice. Prepare the string beans and ingredients but the lettuce and pour chill. It desired, make the Chicken into a pan about Bin, x Bin. x 2. serving Or, if you prefer, make and Fricassee the day before, then chill. Chill until firm. Cut into 9 squares stean it just before dinner. On the
Reheat on Chelatinas Day; neke and serve an individual beds of let- day before the festivities, clean, stall dumplings and steam on top of hot tuce with or without salad dressing. and truss your turkey. Also clean frienssce. the potatoes and store them in the refrigerator along with the
turkey
Here are some recipes right on
and cleaned salad greens. If Spanish and and ready for use on this pre- Cream is your cholce for dessert, Paration day. make it the day before.
On Christmas morning prepare the olives and oranges for the salad and jet stand in the French dressing until It is time to complete the salad.
BREAD STUFFING,
3 qts. stale (not hard)}
For
1
crumbs.
tsp. salt.
1 tbsp. sage.
2 tbsp chopped.celey
2 tsbp, chopped parsley.
Dr
the Glazed Sweet Potatoes-enough to serve 6 cook 8 medium-sweet- tender and drain. potatoes until Combine 4 melted butter margarine and 1 c. brown sugar in a salecpan. Toss the potatoes In this
When
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Christmas Dinner II
the entire household, shares in preparation of the feast.
Grape Juice Cockfall Potaio and Celery Stuffing Buttered Squash Giblet Gravy Cabbage and Raw Carrot Baked I'lum Pudding with Yee Cream or Cream
or Fruit len
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then
mixture until well conted; siminer over low heat until glazed.
4 tsp. pepper.
c. butter or margarine.
14. minced onion.
bread.
Use day-old bread 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 Add the scastrec unlil tender, breadcrumbs and brown, stirring the crumbs constantly from the bottom. Stufts 1 bird weighing 01b, after it is dressed.
FRUIT AND OLIVE SALAD
2 large oranges.
large stuffed olives.
4 c. French dressing.
I farge avocado pear.
Saind greens.
With
u sharp
knife, pare
the
oranges deep enough to remove all the orange
If your're using Dhaner Pattern II, membrane. Remove elean your duck or thielten 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. , as the potato stulling should be Peel the avocado pear and cut in the Bight and fluffy., Alto, on the day half crosswise. Curefully pull before, sleam the squash and store it halves away from the seed; then cut each half into crosswise rings about covered in the refrigerator.
In serving the grape juice cocktail in thick. Arrange a ring of avocado the each six Individual beds of salad we suggest that you first frost
you
POTATO AND CELERY STUFFING
in of the cocktail glasses. To do reens, and fil the centre of each this, dip the top rim of each plass ring with some of the orange, olive in lemon juice then in granulated and French dressing mixture. Serves sugar. Chilt for at least 1 hr. in the refrigerator before serving, and have a cool frosly band around the top of each rim that will stand for. some time without melting. If your dessert is Plum Pudding, bake it in same oven with duck or chicken for the Inst 45 minutes of the roasting 2 tsp. salt. period.
8 medium potatoes.
1 c. hot milk or 4 c. evaporated milk and e. water, hented.
1⁄4 tsp. pepper.
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