ouble boiler with pastry brush dipped in cold water. Add
1 egg white, unbeaten. Place over hot water and cook, beating constantly
with egg beater for 7 to 12 minutes or until mixture will hold its shape.

Add
1 tablespoon marshmallow cream and
1/4 teaspoon vanilla, and fold over and over until again stiff
enough to hold its shape. Add
1/3 cup (3) figs cut in small pieces and
1/3 cup nut meats cut in small pieces. Pile on

Small round crackers and bake at 375 degrees F. for 10 minutes or until
delicately brown. This rule will cover 3 dozen small crackers. Should
frosting be too soft to hold its shape after adding marshmallow cream,
it may be again placed over hot water, and folded gently over and over,
until it becomes slightly granular around the edges. Remove from hot
water, and continue folding over gently until of the desired stiffness.

MARSHMALLOW FROSTING

Use above mixture with or without figs and nuts as a cake filling or
frosting. It need not be baked.

CANDIED MINT LEAVES

Wipe
Fresh mint leaves, remove from stems and rub each leaf gently with
the finger dipped in
Egg white slightly beaten. Mix
3 tablespoons granulated sugar with
3 drops oil of spearmint, and sift over each side of the mint leaves.
Lay close together on a cake rack covered with wax paper and leave in a
warm but not a hot place until crisp and dry. Serve in
Tea with
Sliced lemon and
Loaf sugar.

TEA

Half fill a perforated tea spoon or tea ball with
Orange Pekoe, or other preferred tea. Place in cup, add fresh
Boiling water, until cup is two-thirds full. Remove tea spoon as soon
as tea is of the desired strength.

Two or three cups of tea can usually be made without emptying and refilling
the tea spoon.

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MENU II

Grapefruit Baskets with Mints
Open Cheese and Bacon Sandwich
Mixed Sweet Pickles
Crab Meat and Tomato Jelly Salad
Egg Biscuits
Orange Layer Cake
Iced Coffee with Vanilla

PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS

Grapefruit prepared and put on ice
Cheese grated (or chopped) for sandwiches
Bacon cut same length as bread slices
Pickles may be made at any time
Tomato jelly and mayonnaise dressing made
Eggs, hard cooked
Celery (or endive) cut and put in cold water
Crab meat picked over and put on ice
Lettuce washed and put on ice in cheesecloth
Cake baked and one layer frosted
Cake filling made, except the whipped cream
Dry ingredients