JADED APPETITES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 20

JADED APPETITES

TEMPTING EXTRAS IDEAS FOR GARNISHING Dress up your food and give it the dainty touches which cause a garnished dish to be so pleasing to the eye as well as alluring to a jaded appetite. * * * Even common, everyday cabbage and turnips can be made aristocratic in appearance by forming into a ring round a fluffy mound of mashed potatoes and garnished by nicely browned sausages. Serve rice in a ring, as it makes a fine border. Cook and press into a hot greased ring mould; then turn out on a platter. The centre can be filled with hot buttered carrots or beetroot and chops placed around the edge of platter. * * * A joint can be garnished with nests of mashed potatoes filled with buttered peas hr carrots. . . . Salads are easily decorated. Radish “roses” add colour. Slices of hardboiled eggs, stuffed olives, lemon covered with minced parsley, pimento, and cubes of beetroot also improve the appearance. Soups can be improved by a sprinkling of minced parsley or grated cheese. A little whipped cream is the making of a cream soup. ... A plain sweet can be made quite festive-looking by adding a spoonful of whipped cream decorated with chocolate “shot,” nuts, candied ginger or cherries. When serving cream cheese, soften with some cream and form into tiny “apples” with a clove In the bud end and a rose stem in the other. ST. JOHN’S GIRLS’ CLUB DANCE A popular dance was given on Wednesday by the St. John’s Girls’ Club, when there was a large attendance. Music was provided by the Te Awamutu Orchestra, extras being played by Miss 11. Garvey, Messrs. Newton and E. I-lolmes. Members of the club executive acted as M.C.s. Princess Elizabeth is fast growing out of the baby chairs that once adorned her nurseries, and these have been replaced by bigger ones. Her little cot, too, has given place to a small white bed of which she is justly proud! When in London the little Princess delights to kneel on a chair at the window of her nursery, looking out on the crowds and the traffic at Hyde Park Corner. Everything amuses Princess Elizabeth, and she can play by herself quite happily without, bothering anyone.