other decorations. It may be colored if desired.

SPICED SYRUP FOR TEA

Put in small saucepan
1 cup water and
½ cup sugar.

Heat to boiling point and when sugar is dissolved add
1 tablespoon whole cloves, crushed and a
2 inch piece stick cinnamon broken in pieces, tied together very loosely in a piece of cheesecloth.

Boil gently to 215 degrees F. or to a thin syrup. When cool add juice of
2 lemons. Serve in small bowl, using
1 tablespoon syrup in each cup of tea.

MENU IV

PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS

Cookies made
Lettuce washed and put on ice
Dry ingredients and shortening for rolls mixed
Tins greased
Filling mixed for rose apples and rose apples chilled
Timbale cases made. May be reheated while cooking Newburg
Dressing made, all but bacon fat
South American chocolate prepared
Mousse made and packed, 4 to 6 hours in advance
Dry ingredients measured for Newburg
Fish cooked and flaked
Bacon cut in small pieces or
Materials prepared for potato salad and dressing made

MARKET ORDER

½ pound bacon
2 pounds haddock
2 quarts milk
¼ cup sour cream
½ cup sour milk
1 ½ pints cream
10 eggs
½ pound butter
1 green, pepper
1 onion
2 lemons
1 head lettuce
Parsley
2 oranges
8 rose apples (small can) or small tomatoes
8 anchovies (or 1 small bottle)
2 pimientos
Brown sugar
2 ounces candied cherries
1 ounce pistachio nuts
2 ounces raisins
1 ounce nut meats
½ pound vanilla sweet chocolate
½ cup mayonnaise dressing
1 pint salad oil
½ ounce coffee
¼ pound corn meal
1 teaspoon gelatin
2 pickles

If Potato and Egg Salad is selected omit bacon and add

1 pound potatoes
2 roots celery or 1 small cabbage
½ cup cream, sweet or sour

ROSE APPLES EN SURPRISE

Hard cook
2 eggs. Reserve ½ yolk.

Chop remainder fine and mix with
2 tablespoons green pepper chopped
2 tablespoons pimiento chopped
4 anchovies chopped
½ teaspoon salt
Few grains pepper and
Few drops onion juice. Moisten with
Mayonnaise dressing.

Fill
8 rose apples or small tomatoes from which centers have been removed.

Cover with mayonnaise and garnish with
Strips of anchovy, laid crosswise.

Serve each rose apple or tomato on a small plate sprinkled with
Chopped parsley mixed with reserved egg yolk, rubbed through a strainer.

ROSE APPLES EN SURPRISE

MOCK LOBSTER À LA NEWBURG

Wipe a
2 pound haddock, remove skin and bones, sprinkle with
Salt and steam 20 minutes over boiling water.

Cool and separate in flakes. Melt
¼ cup butter, add
1 tablespoon flour mixed with
¾ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika
Few grains cayenne and
Slight grating nutmeg. Then add
½ cup milk gradually. Cook and stir until sauce boils.

Add haddock flakes and
1 pimiento cut in strips and place over hot water.

Just before