Snippets For New Year Parties

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30635, 29 December 1964, Page 2

Snippets For New Year Parties

Snippets and tit-bits for the cocktail tray need not be elaborate to be the hit of a New Year’s Eve party. Here are two crisp and easy to eat sticks, which will win you acclaim and set people wondering what they are although both are ridiculously simpleThen, if you are planning a pavlova or meringues for the holiday week-end, take advantage of the left-over egg yolks and make these delicious Cheese Fans. SAVOURY STICKS Ingredients: {-inch thick slices of stale bread A little butter and vegetable extract Bacon strips. Method: Remove crusts from the bread and cut the slices into strips {-inch wide to make lead pencil pieces about 4 inches long. Spread a little butter and vegetable extract along one face of each. Wind narrow strips of bacon round to completely enclose each strip. Bake about 20 minutes at 350 degrees or until the bacon is just crisped. Serve hot or cold. NUTTY STICKS Ingredients: Peanut butter Cooking oil Stale bread. Method: Cut bread into slices about one third of an inch thick. Remove all crusts, placing them on a baking tray. Cut the bread into strips as wide as they are thick, then into pieces about 3| inches long. Place the crust strips on to another baking tray. Bake both lots in a slow oven until they are crisp and pale golden. Roll the crusts into fine crumbs. In the top of a double boiler combine peanut butter with sufficient oil to give a creamy texture and heat together until blended. Dip the crisped sticks into this mix-

ture to coat well, then roll them in the fine crumbs and allow to cool. CHEESE FANS Bake the cheese biscuits as plain shapes or fans and top some with small pieces of well-drained pineapple. Store these in a separate tin as they soften, but heat them in the oven and serve them hot and they make a delicious morsel for the eocktail tray. Ingredients: 9oz flour soz butter soz grated cheese i teaspoon salt Pinch cayenne pepper 4 egg yolks.

Method: Into a bowl sift 9oz flour, a good half teaspoon of salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Add soz grated cheese. Rub in soz butter. Fork four egg yolks lightly and add, working all together into a paste. Let the paste stand aside for a little time, then roll thinly and stamp out with a fluted 3-inch cutter. Cut each into three segments to make scalloped fan-shaped pieces and bake in a hot oven—4so degrees—for eight to 10 minutes. Lift off and crisp and cool on a wire tray before storing. They may be eaten as they are, or make attractive bases for small savouries.