TO-DAY’S RECIPE TABLE APPOINTMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20103, 9 May 1935, Page 12

TO-DAY’S RECIPE

TABLE APPOINTMENTS

The best of table napery and the finest of silverware ancl glassware will not overcome defects in arrangement. That is why women with an artistic sense and poor to medium table appointments are able to make their tables look far more attractive than a more well-to-do woman would find possible with the best of tableware.

To-day the opportunity to display one’s individuality in table decorating is greater than ever before, because there are no set “fashions.”

Your table napery can be white or coloured. It can have a coloured border or an all-over colour design. It can match your china in colouring, or contrast with it whichever you may deem desirable. Flowers and fruit are valuable aids to table decoration. With these, and a few paper serviettes worked into cunning shapes, many a thrifty housewife is able to “make a show” at trifling cost.

In these days, when the family purse is often sadly depleted, it is heartening too. that the “well dressed” table is so largely a matter of individual initiative; and that the cost factor is one that need not worry the careful home-planner.

CREAMED ONIONS •i* Peel the required number of *** onions, blanch in boiling water *i* for 10 minutes, drain well, cut into quarters and put in a sauce- * pan with enough milk to float % them. Simmer till tender, re- * move from the milk and drain * on a sieve. Melt a piece of but- x ter the size of a walnut, stir in ? a little flour and slowly add the * milk the onions were cooked in. X Beat an egg yolk with a table •:* spoon of milk and add to sauce, * with pepper and salt. Cook very J gently till sauce is thick and >:• creamy. Pour over onions and * serve. .5. ❖