Chapter III: Part III: Chafing-Dish Dainties

CHAFING-DISHES PAST AND PRESENT 151
CHAFING-DISH APPOINTMENTS 153
ARE MIDNIGHT SUPPERS HYGIENIC? 157
HOW TO MAKE SAUCES 158
MEASURING AND FLAVORING 160
RECIPES FOR OYSTER DISHES 163
RECIPES FOR LOBSTER AND OTHER SEA FISH 169
RECIPES FOR CHEESE CONFECTIONS 182
RECIPES FOR EGGS 188
RECIPES FOR DISHES LARGELY VEGETARIAN 195
RECIPES FOR RÉCHAUFFÉS AND OLLA PODRIDA 202

Illustrations

Table laid for Sunday Night Tea _Frontispiece_
The Tender Lettuce brings on softer Sleep _Facing page_ 18
Cucumber Salad for Fish Course " " 28
Cooked Vegetable Salad " " 28
Potato Balls, Pecan Meats, and Cress Salad " " 32
Potato-and-Nasturtium Salad " " 32
Endive, Tomato, and Green String Bean Salad " " 36
Stuffed Beets " " 36
Cress, Cucumber, and Tomato Salad " " 41
Tomato Jelly with Celery and Nuts " " 41
Russian Vegetable Salad " " 48
Macedoine of Vegetable Salad " " 48
Miroton of Fish and Potato Salad " " 58
Cowslip and Cream Cheese Salad " " 58
Russian Salad " " 62
Halibut Salad " " 62
Shell of Fish and Mushrooms " " 68
Shrimp Salad in Cucumber Boat " " 68
Shrimp Salad, Border of Eggs in Aspic " " 70
Lobster Salad " " 70
Bluefish Salad " " 72
Litchi Nut and Orange Salad " " 72
Moulded Salmon Salad " " 74
Salad of Shrimps and Bamboo Sprouts " " 74
Spinach and Egg Salad " " 84
Marguerite Salad " " 84
Easter Salad " " 86
Country Salad " " 86
Fruit Salad " " 94
Turquoise Salad No. 2 " " 94
Cheese Ramequins " " 106
Individual Soufflé of Cheese " " 106
Pineapple-Cheese and Crackers " " 110
Salad of Lettuce with Cheese and Macedoine " " 110
Chicken Salad Sandwiches " " 126
Halibut Sandwiches with Aspic " " 126
Wedding Sandwich Rolls " " 128
Club Sandwich " " 128
Boston Brown Bread " " 138
Bread cut for Sandwiches " " 138
Bowl of Fruit-Punch ready for serving " " 143
Copper Chafing-Dish with Earthen Casserole " " 149
Chafing-Dish, Filler, etc. " " 153
Course at Formal Dinner served in Individual
Chafing-Dishes " " 157
Butter Balls with Utensils for Chafing-Dish " " 178
Moulded Halibut with Creamed Peas " " 178
Yorkshire Rabbit " " 186
Curried Eggs " " 186
Mushroom Cromeskies, ready for cooking " " 198
Prune Toast " " 198