BACHELOR GIRL PARTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19260, 26 August 1924, Page 5

BACHELOR GIRL PARTIES.

Of course it is usually possible to call on an obliging landlady if a “real” dinner is desired, but a picnic meal that the bachelor girl prepares herself is usually much more fun for everybody (says a writer in Home Chat). It is easy to concoct all sorts of tempting salads without any cooking and without the use of elaborate kitchen utensils. Any cold cooked fish or cold chicken, or tinned salmon, sardines, or tuna fish, broken up and mixed with small pieces of lettuce, is very good. It should, however, be well combined with salad dressing and garnished with hard-boiled egg, tomatoes, and any other available vegetables. Excellent made salad can often be obtained, from shops which deal in cooked foods, and if Russian salad is available it is delicious with prawns (which can be bought tinned, if fresh ones are impossible) and endive. Anchovy eggs, too, are quite easy to prepare. and, served with some sort of salad, would be very good. If the evening is cold, and something hot seems to be essential, prepared soup, heated over the gas ring and served in little bowls, would make a welcome course with which to begin the meal. For sweets it is best to choose something that can be prepared beforehand, like trifle, jelly, or fruit salad and cream. Junket and stowed fruit are easy to get ready beforehand, and could be served with cake. AH sorts of delicious variations can be made with ice cream (which is quite casy to obtain, now, in most places) and fruit, such as pocliemelha, or meringues glacces. Of course, ice cream dishes have to be prepared just before they are used, but most guests feel they are missing half the fun. if they are not allowed to help get ready at least part of a bachelor feast. Another good sweet to choose is mock poached eggs on toast. For this, slices of Swiss roll are soaked in apricot syrup, then a spoonful of whipped cream is placed on them and an apricot (skin side uppermost) makes the yoke of the egg. Coffee is easy to make in a fireproof pot placed on an asbestos mat over the gas; and if white coffee is wanted kettle should be boiled first, so that the milk may be warmed over the boiling water while the coffee is being made.