Iced Cake with fruits.
Nothing but light wine is drunk at the first coarse, but at the second
my guests are at liberty to drink wines of any other description,
intercepting them with several hors-d’œuvres, which are small dishes
of French pickled olives and sardines, thin slices of Bologna sausage,
fillets of anchovies, ciboulettes, or very small green onions, radishes,
etc.; also a plain-dressed salade à la Française (for which see end of
the entrées, Kitchen at Home), fromage de Brie, Neufchatel, or even
Windsor cheese, when it can be procured. The coffee and dessert I
usually leave to the good taste and economy of my menagère.
[Illustration: MY TABLE AT HOME.
Une Réunion Gastronomique sans dames, est un parterre sans fleurs,
L’océan sans flots, une flotte maritime sans voiles.]