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Mrs. Rorer's vegetable cookery and meat substitutes...
Mrs Rorer's vegetable cookery and meat substitutes Author:Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MRS. RORER'S VEGETABLE COOKERY AND MEAT SUBSTITUTES APPETIZERS The word "cocktail" is applied in our bills of fare to appetizers. It really no longer means... more » a mixture of liquors. We have oyster cocktails, clam cocktails and fruit cocktails in great variety. These cocktails, or appetizers, take the place at a vegetable dinner of oysters and clams. Any mixture of fruit may be used, served in punch glasses, or in the skins of such fruits as oranges and grape fruit. You may serve with them either small spoons, ordinary oyster forks, or a fruit fork. A good combination is banana, pineapple and lemon. Half a pineapple may be mixed with three large ripe bananas, peeled and cut into blocks, seasoned with the juice of a lemon, and a table- spoonful of powdered sugar. These may be served either in glasses or in half of the banana shells. In the Spring, place the banana shell on a fern frond just a little larger than the shell, stand it on a dainty dish and send it to the table. Canned fruits may be used, provided they are nicely blended. They must not, however, be sweet, or they will destroy rather than create an appetite.Chopped peaches and oranges make a very nice combination and may be served in the orange shells. Canned apricots and candied or canned cherries with orange juice, served in orange shells, are exceedingly dainty. STRAWBERRY COCKTAIL Slice large strawberries into punch glasses, allowing about four to each person. Remember, this is an appetizer, not dessert. Put a teaspoonful of powdered sugar in the centre and squeeze into each glass the juice of half a lemon. Stand these in a cold .place. At serving time, add a tablespoonful of shaved ice. Stand each glass on a little doily on a dainty plate. ORANGE COCKTAIL Cut the oranges into halves; with a spoon scoo...« less