THE APPETISING TABLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19731, 28 December 1926, Page 10

THE APPETISING TABLE

CLOTHES AND DISHES Far more attention is being paid just now to the appearance of the dinner or tea table. Chlarming clothes or mats, flowers, decorations, the new exquisite, glass—all these things are designed not | only to tempt the appetite, but to give > < harm to a process which can easily become utilitarian. The beautiful Italian . work, with its cross-stitch or golden brown perhaps on a creamy .linen . ground, is very much in favour just ' now’ for table, mats. Polish work, with its blacks and reds, is also sold, while i plain linen in a striking colour is often used with the Italian hem. If the mats are coloured the glass may sometimes tone in, but is more often white, the steely white of the flint glass being most effective on a polished table. With golden cross-stitch golden glass looks very well. On the Continent the attempt to make food decorative is more pronounced than in England, where dishes are limited. The Swiss have a number of dishes which must be the joy of the cook, and which do not necessarily take too much time. A course may bo served of a fond d ’artichaut, which serves as a plate to half an egg. This is flanked I with a couple of olives, the colour of which tones with the artichoke, and ! makes a very tempting dish. Cold chicken can also be made much more I decorative and appetising with white i sauce. A throne is prepared made of • breadcrumbs, -and of a nice brown j colour. The chicken is placed upon it ’ liberally covered with white sauce. ! This is in its turn is decorated perhaps with truffles, perhaps with slices of potato cut with the mincer and coloured j with cochineal. In Switzerland a silver skewer is often stuck through the j middle to crown the work. For further I decorative effects there are always . finger-bowls into which flowers may be | put. In Paris recently little china ornaments have been used for finger bowls. Sometimes they are roses, sometimes goldfish, but always with a good deal of colour. They float on the water, and give a uniform and striking colour effect.