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CHRISTMAS DINNERS
THE greaping board to dear to indiflon is hard to resist on Christmas Day, we'll admit. But if lime
on Alis
page lack or facilities or personal elltuntion says nay, the modern streamlined menus featured nothing in their appeal to the eye or holiday appetite.
They are designed to' your own special requirements. I have included both old favourites and new, and leave it to you to select your own pattern,
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 it as a "ght something" later in the day,
2 eggs beaten.
SIMPLICITY, Ju the keynote of Perhaps you have seliled an Dinner Christmas settings this year. Large, Pallem III. Then chill the cocktail rony apples are the candlesticks. Plek fruit juices and ginger ale, prepare cholce red plump ones and burnish the moulded tomato cheese salad, them with a soft cloth. Thon with an and bake the Pumpkin Pie the day Also wash the salad greens apple corer cut halfway through each before. apple and remove the half cores. 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 upples
altnost harmonise with and colour in the dinnerware
If your lable is loo and narrow, arrange apples, parade fashion down the centre, using four or five of them. But if your table is round or
ot
aval, arrange them garland fashion, following the contour your table. Then luck In laurel, ivy or any green leaves you prefer be tween lhe applesticks. Small bunches of grien grapes- placed
Christmas Dinner 1 When hands and time are plen- iful and the family can fare
a five-course dinner. Oyster Cocktail and/or Cauned Tomato Soup with Canned Celery Soup added
Roast Turkey
Gravy stuffing "Bread Glazed Sweet Potators Bullered Asparagus *Fruit and Olive Salad (optional)
Heated Rolls Steamed Pudding With Foamy Sauce or Spanish Cream Coffee
casually here and there add us offec- iive note of colour.
Nut and fruit dishes, one at each place---with # nutcracker between every two places are made of brown The night before the blotting paper. feast All each with the mixed nuts and put it in place, as in 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 de abend of time, thus ensuring a holiday for yourself as well as your guests.
PREPARE AHEAD
of this. The
Christmas Dinner 1
When you are solliary cook and the living-room table must serve
as a dining table, Apricot Nectar, Lime, and Ginger Ale Cocklall Roast of lamb with Roasted Potatoes and Buttered Peas and Onions Gravy
Bread Sticks Currant Jelly
louided Tomato CheesO
Salad (optional) Pumpkin Pie or Assorted Fruits.
Roasted Nuts Coffee
.min.
4 tbsp. butter or margarine, Ilarite peeled minced onion, 2 t. minced celery,
4 tbsp. minced parsley.
Pare potatoes and cook until lender, Mash; add hot milk salt and pepper Add eggs and mix thoroughly, using polato masher. Melt butter a saucepan; atlet onion and cook until tender. Add rematning ingredients Add this and blend thoroughly, mixture to the mashed potatoes. Stuff chicken or duck weighing 41b, after it is dressed.
BAKED PLUM PUDDING
14 e brown sugar.
3 e, water.
5 tbsp. butter or margarine.
1 egg beaten,
1. sifted cake flour.
11⁄2 tap, baking powder,
11⁄2 tsp. salt.
raisins.
1⁄2 tsp. vanilla extract, and store them in the refrigerator.
Combine 1 c. of the brown sugar, For Pan Roasted Potatoes, cook the water, and 1 tbsp, of the butter, peelal white or sweet potatoes 10 and shamer for 10 min. Meanwhile min. Forty-five
before the cream the remaining 4 tbsp. butter Reas of Lamb is done, arrange the with the remaining 4 r. of the brown potatoes around the rout and bake sugar, Add the beaten egit and mlx 40 min. or until tender, turning and wall. Sift the flour, baking powder, basting frequently with the drippings and salt together, and add to the is the
preparing the Bui- creamed mixture while stirring pan.. In
Add tered Pens and Onions cool the peas raisins and vanille, and stir until al small or sliced onions separately, well mixed. Pour the hot syrup into then drain combine and season. a pan about 8in. x 12in, and drop the As for Dinner Pattern IV, follow pudding mixture by tablespoons anto this and you'll wich Christmas Day the hot syrup. Bake in a moderate 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 plein cream or ice celery and saind greens, and chill in cream Serves 8.
in
Christmas Dinner IV
When you want to entertain and two-plate slove must do the
cooking for your guests. Tomato Juice Brown Chicken Fricassee with
Dumplings
String Beans with Lenian Buller Celery Toasted Split Rolls Tossed Salad of Greens, With Oranges, Grapefrull Apples and Grapes Crackers and Assorted Cheese! with Bowl or Nuts and Raising or Coffee Ice Cream
Nuts
Coffee
MOULDED TOMATO
CHEESE SALAD
10oz. tin tomato soup. Doz.. cream cheese.
loz, unflavoured gelatin.
1⁄2 c. cold water.
c. mayonnaise.
1. finely chopped raw vegetables (celery, unions, green pepper, and pimiento).
Lettuce,
heat,
Heat soup to bolling, remove from add cheese, and bent with a hand beater or an electric heater at medium speed until thoroughly blend. સા. Meanwhile soak the gelatin in the cold water for 5 min; then add to
E the hot soup mixture and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Cool, but do not
Take Dimer Paitern No. 1 on this page as an example steamed pudding may be made in ad refrigerater along with the tomato allow to thicken. Add all remaining vance and then resteared in the ori Juice. Prepare the string beans and ingredients but the lettuce and pour inal mould for about I hr. before serving. Or. If you prefer, make and ch If desireci, make the Chicken into a pan about fin. x Gin, x 2in. Frlassee the day before, then chill. Chill until firm. Cut into squares steam it just before dinner. On the Rebeat en Christmas Day; make and serve on individual beds of let- day before the festivities, dean, stuit dumplings and steam on top of hot tuce with or without salad dressing.
Serves 9. and truss your turkey. Also clean fricassee.
the potatoes and store them in the Ilere are some recipes right on refrigerator along with the turkey fund and ready for use on this pre- and cleaned salad greens. If Spanish
Cream is your choice for dessert, puration day. make the day before.
On Christmas morning prepare the olives and oranges for the salad and let stand la the French dressing until it is time to complete the salad. For the Glazed Sweet Potatoes-enough medium sweet to serve -cook B potatoes until tender and drain. Combine e-melted buller......_or_ margarine and 1 c. brown sugar in a saucepan. Toss the potalees in this
Christmas Dinner 11
When the entire household, shares in preparation of the reast.
Grape Juice Cocktai Polate and Celery Slubing Bultered Squash Giblet Gravy Cabbage and Raw Carrol Baked Plum Pudding with Ice Cream or Cream or Fruit fer Coffee
mixture until
coated;
well
then simmer over low hent until glazed.
RREAD STUFFING
3 qts. stale (not hard)
crumbs,
1
tsp. salt.
1 tbsp. sage.
2 tbsp. chopped celery. 2 tsbp, chopped parsley.
1 tsp. pepper.
butter or margarinë. c. minced onion.
bread-
Use day-old bread for the crumbs. Combine the breadcrumbs, salt, sage, celery, parsley and pepper. Mean- wille melt the butter in a large skiet, add the onion, and simmer
Add until tenter.
Mic seasoned breadcrumbs and brown, stirring the crumbs constantly from the bottom. Stuffs 1 bird weighing 81b, after it is dressed.
FRUIT AND OLIVE SALAD
2 large oranges.
large stuffed olives.
c. French dressing.
1 large avocado pear,
Salad greens.
tho
.With n sharp
knife, pare oranges deep enough to remove all the oronge
If your're using Dinner Pattern IJ, membrane. Remove clean your duck or chicken the day sedions and cut each section' In nif. before the holiday. Do not stuff it, Thinly slice the olives, and add with the French dressing. however, until just before you ronste oranges to
the
it, as the potato stuffing should be Peel the avocado pear and cut in
Carefully put light and fluffy. Also, on the day half crosswise. before, steam the squash and store it halves away from the seed; then cut covered in the refrigerator.
each half into crosswise rings about
In serving the grape juice cocktail in thick. Arrange a ring of avocado we suggest that you first frost the ou ench six Individual beds of salad. rim of the cocktail Klusses To do greens, and All the centre of each this, dp the top rim of each glass it with some of the orange, olive in lemon juice then in granulated and French dressing mixture. Serves sugar. Chill for at least 1 hr. in the refrigerator before serving, and you have a cool frosty band around the top of each rim that will stund for some time without melting. If your dessert Is Plum Pudding, bake it in same oven with duck or chicken for the last 45 minutes of the roasting
period.
POTATO AND CELERY STUFFING
medium potatoes,
c. hol milk or c. evaporate‹1| mkrande. water, hented.
2 tsp. salt.
1⁄4 tsp. pepper.
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