½ cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon minced onion
⅛ teaspoon mustard
2 eggs or 4 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 cup grated well aged cheese
½ teaspoon salt
Cooked macaroni
Mix bread crumbs, milk, shortening and onion together, beating until
creamy. Add other ingredients except macaroni and mix lightly. Line
ramekins or custard cups with cooked long macaroni and fill with timbale
mixture. Set in pan of hot water and bake in moderately slow oven, 325
degrees, for about 30 minutes or until mixture is set. Unmold and serve
with ham pimiento sauce made by adding 1 cup finely chopped ham, 4
tablespoons minced pimiento and ¼ teaspoon mustard to 2 cups well
seasoned medium white sauce.
Cover small round pill boxes with colored paper, fill boxes with candy
or nuts. Tie top on with harmonizing ribbon, write name of guest on box,
use as favor or place card.
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Cut heavy cardboard in heart shape (size wanted). Use 2 for each heart,
paste or glue cellophane, either white or red, over cardboard frame,
paste 2 together with lace paper frill between. Bend wire to make hearts
stand on table.
Ask Mary Cullen’s staff for additional suggestions you may desire.
Use large No. 10 can or large round box. Cover with red and white
striped paper. Put blue band around crown and paste white stars on this.
Make brim of cardboard and cover with blue paper. Use as centerpiece
filled with white and red flowers, or with red, white and blue wrapped
favors.
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Veal Loaf
Spanish Sauce
Scalloped Succotash
Cole Slaw
Hot Buttered French Bread
Currant Jam
Peppermint Ice Cream
Chocolate Potato Cake
Coffee
Drum Cake Centerpiece—Make 2 or 3-layer chocolate cake. Frost with white
icing. When icing is set, melt chocolate over warm water and with paint
brush paint rim on cake as pictured to simulate rim and lacings of drum.
Use peppermint sticks as drumsticks. Place cake on wax paper, then on
red or white paper sprinkled with stars.