ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION.

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 45, 16 November 1929, Page 23

ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION.

The English Speaking Union decided at the last executive meeting to hold this month’s social afternoon on America’s Thanksgiving Day—November 28—and to invite Americans residing in Wellington to attend. Thanksgiving Day in America is a very old festival, having been instituted by the Pilgrim Fathers iu thanksgiving for a good harvest, and is kept as a day of family reunion. It was a movable feast until after the Civil AVar, when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the fourth Thursday in November to be kept as a thanksgiving, and ever since that has been the day fixed. Another function of the E.S.U. will be a reception to those members of the union who will be on board the Malola,' and as she only calls at Auckland Miss Kcnrick, late secretary of the union, who is now in that city, will arrange the function to take place there.

Black Caps.—A little savoury known aa black caps in a certain house where it is very popular, is made with cheese biscuits of two sizes. The larger is spread thickly with a puree of cooked finnan haddock salted and peppered, and mixed with whipped cream. \ A lid is pressed down on each, and a caper—the black cap—-set on each lid. When a hot savoury is required the filling fs made of minced chicket and ham or game or kidney or sausage, or a combination of several mixed into a well-flavoured brown sauce—tomato or curry or mushroom or a plain brown sauce—and served in similar fashion, sizzling hot.