LIFE IN MAYFAIR
'TWELVE O'CLOCK BRUNCHES'
The daily round of luncheons, teas, and cocktail parties in Mayfair reveals the fact that hostesses have been going into the kitchen and racking their brains to invent new dishes (states the "Queen"). Two appetising ideas for the fork luncheon -were tried out by Mrs. Sieff when she entertained the committee for the National Union of Journalists' film premiere in her thirtyroomed flat in Brook House—almost the largest in London. These were pipinghot pastry patties filled either . with creamed mushrooms or with scrambled egg topped with tomato and eaten with tiny potato fritters dusted with cheese. Lady Plunket and Mrs. CunninghamReid were two who drank the popular tomato juice in preference to sherry or lemonade. Gooseberry souffle was an uncommon sweet for the time of year at this luncheon.
Mrs. Warren Pearl's twelve o'clock "brunches" have become a fashion in Mayfair. Committee members for the Golden Ball, which took place recently, were given coffee in big honey-yellow breakfasts cups and a variety of homemade cheese pastry fingers spread with anchovy cream, tomato, mushroom paste, or ham—as well as the everpopular baby sausage with multicoloured sticks to spear them with.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 19
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195LIFE IN MAYFAIR Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 19
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