FOR THE SUMMER TEA TABLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 4, 6 January 1939, Page 2

FOR THE SUMMER TEA TABLE

Mint Sandwiches Mint sandwiches are delicious! Strip the green leaves from the stems and chop finely. Sprinkle between thin slices of white bread and butter, and cut the bread into triangles, fingers, or squares. Parsley is also excellent as a sandwich filling, and both herbs can be grown in the smallest garden. To keep mint from spreading its roots too much, grow it in a tub by the garden tap. Tea or Fruit Cup? Here are suggestions for a simple tea to be served on a sun porch or verandah. A refreshing fruit drink should always be included in the 4 o'clock “menu,” and can be made quite inexpensively by using barley or oatmeal water as a basis and adding fresh fruit juice, or syrup from stewed fruits or some bottled fruit essence to give flavour. Sweeten to taste. Cold weak tea is also excellent as a basis for cool drinks made with lemonade or dry ginger ale, with thin slices of lemon and sprigs of mint as flavouring.