OYSTERS ON THE HALF-SHELL. GREEN PEA BISQUE. CROUTONS. LOBSTER CUTLETS. SAUCE TARTARE. SLICES OF TURKEY-BREAST. CURRANT JELLY. FRENCH PEAS. PINEAPPLE SHERBET. QUAIL ON TOAST. FRENCH DRESSED LETTUCE. SNOWBALL ICES. SNOWBALL CAKES. COFFEE. BONBONS.
The twenty-seventh of January is Mozart's birthday, and this anniversary gives opportunity for entertaining a group of friends who have musical tastes, or possibly a musical club. The guests might be asked to come at eleven o'clock, and a musicale might precede the luncheon.
Lay the table very much as for the New Year's day luncheon, with red flowers, candles, and other decoration, and if you wish to emphasise the national colours of Germany, Mozart's home, have red and chocolate bonbons on the table and give each guest a little knot of red and white carnations tied with black ribbons. For cards, go to the printer and have him strike off small cuts of Mozart's head on squares of cardboard; all printers have cuts of distinguished people, and they can be reproduced for about a dollar a dozen. Just under the cut draw in pen and ink a bar of music from one of the composer's works with his name attached in tiny letters.
[Illustration: MUSICAL LUNCHEON FAVOURS.]
At each plate may be one of the ingenious favours to be had at the confectioner's in the shape of a violin, a small piano, a banjo, a harp, or a mandolin. The ices may also be in these same shapes.
GRAPE FRUIT. CLAM BROTH WITH STRIPS OF TOAST. PIGS IN BLANKETS. VEAL CUTLETS, BREADED. SWEET POTATO CROQUETTES. ASPARAGUS TIPS. HOT ROLLS. CREAM CHEESE SALAD. NUT SANDWICHES. ICE CREAM IN FORMS. CAKES. COFFEE. BONBONS.
The pigs in blankets are made by seasoning large oysters and folding each one in a very thin strip of bacon, pinning it with a small toothpick and browning in the frying-pan. The cutlets are to be cut in strips the size and shape of croquettes, breaded and fried. The asparagus served with this is, of course, canned. The salad is made by adding a little olive oil or cream to cream cheese, colouring it green with fruit colouring and moulding into balls the size of a hickory nut. These are to be laid on lettuce and a spoonful of mayonnaise added. A pretty change from the ordinary mayonnaise may be used with these green balls: a tablespoonful of unsweetened, condensed milk is used in place of the yolk of an egg; it is beaten, the oil and vinegar or lemon juice and seasoning added exactly in the same order and proportion as is usual; the result will be a stiff, foamy white mayonnaise. The sandwiches to serve with this salad are made of chopped English walnuts spread on bread and butter with just enough mayonnaise to moisten them.