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Hors d'Oeiivres
TJSUALS
iILLBTED anchovies, placed on narrow strips of buttered bread,
_ sprinkled with lemon juice and garnished with pimento, are
always good as a starter.
F
ALLEN CUP CAVIARE
CUT rounds of bread one-fourth inch thick. Saute, one side only.
Spread unsauted side with watercress, butter and with pastry
bag and tube pipe, border with butter. Pill centres with caviare
and finely chopped yolks of hard boiled eggs.
ROQUEFORT APPETIZERS
CRUMBLE 1/4 cup Eoquelfort cheese and add 1/4 teaspoon paprika,
1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon catsup to make mix
ture of right consistency to spread. Cream together and spread on
dainty shapes of thin bread.
PIGS
These are small pork sausages the length of half a thumb,
ordered specially at your butcher's. Just cook in ordinary way,
force toothpick in middle, dip either end in mustard and serve hot.
An Ancient Legend
IT WAS somewhere in Italy back in the darkest days of the Dark
Ages. "Your highness," announced a court attendant, "an
American bootlegger at the palace with a supply of choice Ameri
can hooch."
Caesar Borgia's eyes lighted with an unholy Ifire.
"Show him up right away," he chortled. "My old reliable
stock of poisons hasn't been functioning at all satisfactory lately."
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