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RECIPES TRIED AND TRUE


"Now let good digestion wait on appetite."

APPETIZERS

CRAB COCKTAIL

Pick well-seasoned boiled crabs, mix with a little chopped celery and put on ice. Just before serving, place crab meat in glasses and serve with cocktail sauce.

CREAM CHEESE PASTE

  • 1 lb. cream cheese
  • 1 cup cream or 2 tablespoons butter,
  • 1 grated onion,
  • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.

Mix well, cheese, onion, cream or butter and Worcestershire sauce. Serve on bread or crackers.

CREAM CHEESE

  • 1½ cake cream cheese,
  • ½ pint cream,
  • Jelly.

Cream cheese, beat cream thick and mix. Add enough jelly to color.

FISH CANAPE

  • ¼ lb. cooked fish,
  • Few drops onion juice,
  • ½ teaspoonful salt,
  • Dash black pepper,
  • Few chopped capers,
  • 3 tablespoons sauce Tartare.

Rub fish to a paste, season with onion juice, salt, pepper and capers. Stir into it sauce tartar. Spread on six or eight rounds of buttered toast, garnish with chopped cress.

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